Worldwide Day of Peace Observed in Scotch Plains-Fanwood

“Pinwheels for Peace” is an art installation project, where Students decorate their own pinwheels and plant them outside by the school’s peace pole. The project is for students to express their feelings about things happening in their lives and around the world.

“Peace is not just the opposite of war, it’s a way of being”, Cox said.

“We get pleasure from giving and being kind to others and that right there is a way that we have a personal connection to creating a better world”, Davis said.

It’s all a part of a larger global movement honoring the “International Day of Peace”, but for Davis the goal is to have the harmony live on beyond today.

Worldwide Day of Peace is celebrated annually around the world on September 21.

“We talked about children or people in the world not having a pair of shoes, and a lot of kids on their pinwheels wrote that they would give their shoes to somebody”.

“It helps me understand that sometimes, I should be nicer to my brother or treat others better”, said Sammie.

Making the world a better place, one pinwheel at a time. This diversity provides our students the opportunity to meet, share traditions, languages and cultures with one another. “They’re wonderful students and they each have unbelievable qualities and some of them don’t recognize the good that they have inside”.