Day 5 of school Diversity week
We have all had such a great time this week exploring and participating in learning all about Diversity through different activities completed across the school. Our inclusive approach has cumulated in the assembly of our giant Mosaic Diversity flag with work from every group in school.
We have completed diversity maths on Monday, black out poetry on Tuesday, learning about diversity through history on Wednesday, making our own diversity logo in art on Thursday, then on Friday we discussed ‘Black lives matter’ and what this means, we looked at some of the great black leaders such as Martin Luther king Jr. We learned that he was an American Christian minister and activist who became a spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
Pupils have really enjoyed taking part in these activities and have learnt a lot about what it means to be unique and have begun to recognise and appreciate our individual differences. Pupils have being doing research into: Racism, how our families have changed, PRIDE, Famous people who have faced prejudice in the past including Mohammed Ali, Jesse Owens, and Rosa Parks, Black out Poems and famous people who have shared their life stories. Throughout the week we have been completing different art projects using lots of different techniques and materials; including painting our feet and hands to make some nice bright hand and foot prints. Every group chose what they were going to create each day, using the colours for that day so that by the end week we would have many different creations in the full rainbow of the flag. We have been sharing snippets of the creations throughout this week, today we collected up all the different pieces and the students placed their creations in the correct space to create our rainbow flag.
Day 4: Today we continued our progress rainbow theme in readiness for Rainbow Friday when we put the flag together.
Each bubble is earning points for our prizes.
Here is a clue .
Points make .....
Day 3: We have created poems for Diversity week , taken part in diverse family maths session and researched the life of Ann Lister as well as creating art for our progress flag.
Day 2: Today we worked with Green , blue and Purple.
We have fantastic art work to add to our flag for Friday.
Watch this space!
We will be celebrating diversity, equality and inclusion by creating a progress flag. We are all making a collage flag to show that even though we can’t be together, we'll still join as one to celebrate diversity.
Each day we are using the set colours of the flag to create art work and imagery which will be inlayed into the flag.
he Progress Flag was created in 2018, designed to update the existing rainbow pride flag. The design incorporates the colours of the trans flag (white, pink, light blue) and black and brown stripes to represent LGBT+ people of colour. Both groups face disproportionate levels of discrimination, face unique challenges and have histories that other members of the LGBT+ communities don’t. The flag draws attention to these and encourages us to fight for the equal rights of everyone under the LGBT+ umbrella.
We will create a giant collage Progress Flag of photos and art work.
Why don’t you join in! You can wear one of the colours on the specific days below, make a colour themed piece of art to add to the flag or make an item in a different colour each day or come up with your own suggestions.
Each day will be based upon the colours of the Progress Flag.
Each class bubble will earn bonus points each day which can be exchanged for a special treat on Friday.
The finished flag will be uploaded to the website and displayed in school.
Monday
Watch this space for Tuesday’s art work !