We have had a lovely day with our ‘star’ of the week assembly celebrating all our stars as well as our fantastic Year 4 dancers who blew everyone away with their performance at the Custom’s House last night. It was also made even brighter by seeing so many children dressing up to celebrate diversity!
On Rainbow Friday Year 3 discussed the meaning of pride. They thought about times where they have felt proud of themselves or others, and thought about why pride is important to LGBTQ+ people. They also learnt about some of the origins of the rainbow flag, including what each colour represents, before creating their own progress flags out of collage materials.
As part of our Rainbow Day celebrations, Class 3 dressed in bright colours, shared stories celebrating differences and made fingerprint rainbows that we will display to support diversity.
We are very proud of our inclusive culture where every child is valued and identity and individuality are celebrated. Our children thrive in an exciting environment and learn to value their own culture and beliefs while respecting those of others. As part of diversity week Mr Wilson held a special assembly; we can’t wait to see all our children wearing rainbow colours on Friday.
We kicked off our second annual Diversity Week this week at West Boldon, celebrating our differences and what makes us all unique and special.
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This year, children (with the help of their parents) took part in a competition. Each year group had a different project brief to fulfil and winners were chosen today as part of our special Diversity Day Celebration Assembly.
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Year Group |
Project Brief |
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Reception |
Draw an LQBTQ+ family. |
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Year 1 |
Design a West Boldon Pride Flag. |
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Year 2 |
Create a diversity and inclusion mascot for our school. |
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Year 3 |
Create a poster that promotes equality. |
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Year 4 |
Research the history of the Rainbow Pride Flag and present this how you like. |
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Year 5 |
Write an LGBTQ+ poem. |
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Year 6 |
Write a diary entry in the role of a professional footballer who has just come ‘out’. |
Here are some of the AMAZING projects we received as part of this, plus you can scroll down to see our incredible WINNERS!
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During Diversity Week, children also took part in a variety of PRIDE related activities in school. Year 3 learned all about the Rainbow Flag and the Progress Flag before collaging their own using mosaic squares and tissue paper, and Year 2 did some fantastic, bright, bold and beautiful colouring.
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We ended Diversity Week today by coming to school in bright and colourful clothes. Here are some of our children dressed in their brightest, boldest colours to celebrate our uniqueness and individuality!
Year 2 listened to the well known story of Elmer the Elephant by David McKee and talked about being unique. They made Their own bespoke elephants to reflect their own personalities and differences.
To celebrate International Pride Day, Year 5 have been learning about diversity and how important it is to be kind to everyone in our community. They have designed Pride T-shirts that they feel best represents the kindness and respect that they have for the LGBT+ community.
Year 6 had a Friday afternoon session on Diversity. They wrote what diversity meant to each of them, then created profiles about themselves to show how they are different from one another. They then found someone else in the year group that had their own special values.
Year 6 also spent time decorating their classroom door to show how inclusive and accepting their classroom is. They completed acrostics for the inside of the classroom and decorated bunting in bright colours for the outside.
We have also spent some time decorating our school gates with the rainbow flag and pictures and information about LGBT+ icons in different fields.
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