What an incredible Inclusion Day!

Today we celebrated difference, empathy and belonging. The aim of the day was to help reinforce the feeling of belonging within our whole school community and the message that "Everyone matters,and matters equally."

We started the day with a collective worship to introduce the day, and then split into mixed groups, containing children from across the school age range. The children were each given a time for them to draw their face, using specified colours. The idea was to create a single whole-school piece of artwork that celebrates everyone as individuals but shows that we come together to create something special and that isn't complete without us all.

Children then took part in shared experiences that helped us understand how everyone learns differently — and why fairness means giving people what they need. The children had the opportunity to experience 4 different "rooms", each one geared up to help foster an understanding and appreciation of how differences impact on how a person experiences the world. We explored differences such as Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Speech and Language, Hearing impairment, with an understanding that this will be different for everyone, but giving an understanding of some of the ways in which it might feel different and how everyone can help each other to make the world an inclusive place to be.

The core messages were 'Different doesn’t mean less' and that 'Everyone matters, and matters equally'.

Thank you to our families for joining us at the end of the day — this learning was for adults too.

The artwork is being collated and we will share a picture on the website once it is complete!