CHILDREN from a Worcester school have taken part in a campaign to get every child in the world access to education.

A total of 28 pupils, two teachers and two teaching assistants from St George's CE Primary School, St George's Lane North, travelled to Birmingham to stand alongside representatives of NASUWT (National Association Of Schoolmasters Union Of Women Teachers) and take part in the Global Campaign For Education Action Day.

The campaign is aimed at persuading the world's richest governments to donate £6 billion so every child in the world can have access to primary education by 2015, as well as ensuring that women and girls to get the same access to education as men and boys.

The children joined others from all over the world to make a giant paper chain and met with groups from Ghana and Kenya.

For information about the Global Campaign for Education Action Day, log on to go to www.campaign foreducation.org