Pupils at Langley Fitzurse Primary School sent a message to world leaders at the G8 summit to give children all over the world the same kind of education as they are getting.

The youngsters have been making buddies out of paper to send to the summit in Edinburgh in July, reminding leaders of their pledge to ensure that by 2015 all children have the right to go to school.

Headteacher Lynn Evans said: "We have stressed to the children that this is an awareness raising campaign and that as citizens of a global community it is important that we help learners all over the world as there are about 100 million children in the world that don't go to school.

"They heard about an 11-year-old girl called Venkatamma who was sold by her family for £6 and made to look after ten buffaloes on her own. She then ran away to find her sister and cried because she couldn't go to school. Thanks to charities like Christian Aid she was able then to go the Bridge School in southern India."

Children in years three and four also wrote letters to accompany their paper buddies.

One eight-year-old child at the primary school in Kington Langley wrote: "Dear Mr Tony Blair, I think children have the right to go to school. Please help all the children in the world go to school. If they join the learning ladder they will climb another rung at a time. If they don't they will not have the advantage I have."

The Send My Friend To School campaign (www.sendmyfriend.org) is organised by the Global Campaign for Education, supported by partners including Comic Relief and ActionAid UK.