Blog by Tag: Equality

7A pupils wore red today to mark the Show Racism the Red Card day.

On Wednesday, Mrs Fisher worked with small groups as part of My Community to talk about why people have different coloured skin. We looked at a new word “melanin” and talked about how it is like a curtain that protects our skin…

Today we all wore our own clothes in Chestnut Class, and wore something red!

We enjoyed a music session this morning where we played along to the song 'It's good to be me'. 

We spoke about how we are all different and that's great!!!

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend Chestnut…

Today the class turned red for our Wear Red for Racism day. We had some fantastic activities lined up starting with a great story called 'Part of the Party.' The story is about a group of animals who have not been invited to a disco because they are different. The animals who have been left out…

Today 10R learnt all about diversity and used smarties to look at the percentages of different ethnic groups living in our country.  We had great fun exploding paint balloons on a map of the United Kingdom to represent the different ethnic groups and watching the different colours mixing together.…

Today Willow class learnt about racism and equality- treating all people the same. 

Willow class discussed what it means to be racist and everyone knew this was a bad choice. We talked about how it would make us feel to be treated differently to everyone else. Willow class said treating someone…

Today we have been celebrating our differences in Sycamore for our ‘Astley Park Wears Red’ day.

Sycamore enjoyed a morning of activities including, circle time and portrait crafts. 

During our circle time we had a talk about why we are wearing red - Sycamore were great at sharing their ideas…

10G have been learning all about racism today. We talked all about why we are all wearing red today and what today means. 

First we talked about what we thought racism was and we knew that it was to do with being unkind. Then Miss Robertson read through a PowerPoint all about what racism…

On 30th April, Oak Class wore red inspired by the “Show Racism The Red Card” movement and we engaged in lessons around diversity. 
 

We read a story called We Are All Different and we saw lots of pictures of how people are all different; some people have curly hair and some people have…

Today in Rowan we have been wearing red to celebrate that we are all different.

We listened to a story about what makes us all different to each other but we are all friends together. 

We used our describing words to describe another person in Rowan class and we all had to guess who it was.…

Today 9G wore red to celebrate standing against racism. 
 

In class we spoke about what racism is, and how we have to be kind to everyone no matter what their differences. We read the story ‘We are all different’, and then took part in some circle time activities. We spoke about what makes us…

Today Beech class wore red for ending racism. We did a fun attention autism session with lots of red toys and red balloon. We loved the red bubbles, we made pictures with them later. Well done Beech class. 
 

Mrs Barrand, Mrs Banks, Miss Holden, Ms Goonan.

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Wow! What a fantastic start to our new half term in 7A! Our new topic is Happy Campers and we are really excited for all the outdoor learning opportunities to come. If you haven’t yet sent your child in with a change of clothes and shoes, please could you send these in on Monday. 
 

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