TWO students from a Walthamstow school have won a special award for their global education campaigning.

Ronan McKenzie and Rhiannon Kruse-Edwards, both in Year Ten at Walthamstow School for Girls, last night won the Steve Sinnott Award following a presentation to a panel of judges.

It was only the second award ever to be presented as the scheme was set up in memory of former general secretary of the NUT Mr Sinnott, who died in 2008.

Alice Woolley, one of the judges and acting editor of the Education Guardian, described the girls’ presentation as “passionate, colourful and at times funny”.

The two students presented a list of ideas for how to raise awareness of the “millennium development goal” that by 2015 every child around the globe should finish primary school.

They suggested making a film looking at the education of children in Ghana and contrasting it with that of pupils in the UK.

They also came up with the idea of showing the film on big screens already in place around London for the Olympics and World Cup.

Also on the list was a plan to stage a gig for school bands similar to Live Aid, and to set up workshops for primary pupils run by secondary students.

The girls have now won a trip to Ghana and the opportunity to be ambassadors for the Because I’m a Girl campaign, run by charity Plan International.

They will also visit Plan International education schemes involving girls in football.