Be Ready – Assembly this week

In our assembly this week, we discussed with the children what the protected characteristics are. We talked through why they are important and how they ensure discrimination does not happen. This week, we focused on the protected characteristic of race. We discussed some important moments in history when these rights were not protected and thought about the impact on the people at the time. We discussed how we would feel in that moment. We then asked the children tot think about what this would look like at school and how someone could discriminate against someone due to race. The children were really good at identifying what this might look like and how a child would feel in that moment. A really powerful assembly and one that sparked a lot of discussion. My favourite quote was from a child in year 5 who said, “We should just all treat each other the way we want to be treated no matter what someone might look like.” A really insightful comment.