Echoing their counterparts around the globe, local students are joining a campaign to end child execution.
At least five schools are taking part in this week's International Week of Student Actions, organised by human rights group Amnesty International.
The event is aimed at increasing students' awareness of capital punishment and the execution of child offenders.
Schools have been sent information, including statistics on child executions globally. Teachers will discuss the issue in morning assembly while students will be asked to draw on their creative skills to design posters raising awareness of the plight of child offenders.
According to Amnesty, five countries - the US, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Pakistan and China - are known to have executed child offenders since 2000. Nine of the 14 known executions were carried out in the US.
There are also child offenders facing death in the Philippines and Sudan, and four children are scheduled to die in the US state of Texas in the next four months.