Polly Curtis is education correspondent for Guardian Unlimited. She writes:
Today is Make Poverty History children's day and I'm going to be following pupils from Langdon school in east London who are taking part in both the C8 and the J8 youth conferences, which are both drawing to a close today. You can hear audio from them later this morning. The Guardian first featured the Langdon pupils when they took part in the Make Poverty History rally in Trafalgar Square in February where they met Nelson Mandela.
They start today in Dunblane, where the C8 conference is taking place. C8 is Unicef's parallel conference which is drawing up plans to deliver to the G8 leaders this week.
Then tonight they go on to the Scottish parliament with the J8 project, which is sponsored by the Department for Education and Skills and Morgan Stanley. At the parliament they will present their plans to ministers from Westminster and the Scottish executive. Tomorrow they get their rock and roll moment when they take to the Murrayfield stage to present their ideas.
I also met the Scottish education minister Peter Peacock yesterday. He told me about the lessons that every pupil in the country has had on G8 and about how each of the G8 leaders' wives will get a going home present of a Scottish school child's work of art. You can read the full interview today at EducationGuardian.co.uk.
