bullying

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-51599121?fbclid=IwAR1AzoMt-Kg8Lo83j6Iv2D5Ci8KjK9FCNpeZLWkSMCs401R59cD9r3XuDQY

Quaden Bayes is a nine year old living in Queensland, Australia, who loves rugby and dreams of being a rugby league star. He is also an Aboriginal boy with dwarfism who has been bullied at his school recently because he looks different.

Quaden's Mum shared a video of her son online showing how upset he was after a day at school. The video went viral and people across the world sent messages to Quaden to say it is OK to be different. The Indigenous All Stars rugby team asked Quaden to lead them out on to the pitch a the start of their next game; they posted a video saying, "We've got your back and we just want to make sure you're doing alright.. we want you around...we want you to lead us out on the weekend."

Quaden lead the rugby team on to the pitch to roars from the crowd.

Talking about the bullying, Quaden's Mum said, "Being an aboriginal boy with a disability... there's racism and then there's discrimination because of the disability... there's so many factors of bullying."

She said, "Can you please educate your children, your family, your friends."

what do you see in the picture?
where is it taken?
what is happening?

- What is dwarfism? (when someone's body grows in a different way, meaning they look shorter than other people)
- What does Aboriginal mean? (Indigenous Australians /Australian Aborigines is a term given to native people of Australia.  Today about half a million people in Australia identify as Aboriginal)
- what is bullying?
-why does Quaden's Mum say "There's racism and then there's discrimination because of the disability"
- "There's so many factors of bullying," what does this mean?
- why do you think the rugby team say, "we want you around,"
- why do you think the crowd roared when Quaden stepped on to the pitch? What does that show about how the crowd feels about people being different?
- what do we say about difference in our school?
- why does bullying happen?
- How do we stop bullying happening in schools?
- If Quaden came to our school would he experience bullying?
- what would you do if you saw Quaden being bullied?
- why is this story about No Outsiders?

www.no-outsiders.com

No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the Equality Act in primary schools by Andrew Moffat 

London is open

This photo was taken at the entrance to Euston underground station on February 19th 2020.

what do you see?
where is it?

- what is the London underground? Who uses it?
- who is Sadiq Khan, what is his job?
- "London is open, everyone's welcome" what does that mean?
-  "Today, tomorrow and always" why those words?
- how diverse is London, who lives there? (at the 2011 census 8 million people lived in London, and 37% were born outside the UK)
- why is diversity a good thing?
- why do you think the letter o have been replaced by globes?
-  why do you think people chose to place the sign at Euston station rather than other stations?
- how will this poster make visitors to London feel?
- how will this poster make people who live in London feel?
- do we have anything similar in our school? What could we have? Why should we?
- why is this about no outsiders?

www.no-outsiders.com

No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the Equality act in primary schools by Andrew Moffat

rainbow crossing

A High School in London has become the first school in the UK to install a rainbow crossing. This photo appeared on the Haringey council twitter page with the message:

"@WoodsideHigh children and staff have shown how committed they are to diversity, equality and inclusion today by becoming the first school in the country with a LGBT road crossing. That's something we should all celebrate #Iamharingey"

People were quick to respond on twitter, one person writing, "Equality and inclusion don't just happen, these are values we have to fight for and defend. But this is historic."

what do you see in the picture?
what's happening?
where do you think it is?

explain the story

- what do the rainbow colours mean?
- why do you think a school has chosen to install a rainbow crossing outside its gates?
- what message is the school giving to it's pupils and the community?
- last week a study revealed that many LGBT pupils in schools today are afraid to tell people they are LGBT; why do you think that is? https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/lgbt-youth-face-abuse-bullying-school-education-research-finds-1384127
- how will this rainbow crossing help those pupils that are LGBT?
- how will the rainbow crossing help pupils that are not LGBT?
- does the school want all it's pupils to be gay?
- will a rainbow crossing make children gay when they walk on it?
-"children and staff have shown how committed they are to diversity, equality and inclusion today" what does this mean?
- "these are values we have to fight for and defend" what does this mean?
- why does someone say this is "historic"?
- why do you think the Haringey twitter page uses the hashtag 'Iamharingey'? What is Haringey council saying about people who live there?
- what can we learn from Haringey?
- why is this story about no outsiders?

www.no-outsiders,com

No outsiders in our school: teaching the equality act in primary schools by Andrew Moffat

Last wish

https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/04/paramedic-took-dying-couple-see-snow-one-last-time-12177806/?fbclid=IwAR26_isYIcdatgv0ntRIYuQYiUAImTALulDSbi7dCtIDUValqIKYLF3DCnE

Kees Veldboer is a nurse who lives in The Netherlands. Kees has bought ambulances to help people who are terminally ill enjoy a final wish; he describes how many people who are dying have one last thing they want to do, but are  unable to, because they are in a stretcher or a bed. He came up with the idea one day when he was transferring a man between hospitals. There was a delay and Kees asked the patient if there was anywhere he would like to go because they had some waiting time. The man asked if he could visit Rotterdam Harbour one last time. Kees took him to his favourite harbour and even managed to get the patient on to a sailing boat for one last trip on his stretcher.

The photo shows two patients who wanted to see snow one more time.

Kees says, "It's nice to see them happy. For us it's something easy to do but for them it's something so special. We have driven people for miles, even to other countries, and taken them to some really amazing places."

Some people ask to go to museums and look at art and two football fans asked to see their favourite teams play.

Kees relies on 270 volunteers to help him run the ambulances. He says, "We know we cannot make them better but we give them so much joy in their last days and it's special."

what do you see in the picture
where are they
why are they on stretchers?

explain the story

- what does terminally ill mean?
- why might someone who is terminally ill feel like an outsider?
- what is Kees trying to do?
- It's a lot of effort to go to when people are so ill, is it worth the trouble? why?
- why do you think the people in the picture wanted to see snow?
- how do you think the people in the photo felt when Kees took them to see snow?
- 270 volunteers help Kees; why do so many people want to help?
- what does this show about people today?
- what can we learn from Kees?
- why is this story about No Outsiders?

www.no-outsiders.com

No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the equality act in primary schools by Andrew Moffat

Everybody Welcome

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2020-02-03/everyone-is-welcome-messages-of-solidarity-posted-at-winchester-tower-in-norwich-after-brexit-day-poster/

Winchester Tower is a tower block in Norwich where many different people live from all sorts of countries and backgrounds. Last weekend some posters were put up in the tower block.  The posters called for everyone living in the flats to, "Speak English or leave." They were placed on doors on all 15 floors of the block.

The response from people of Norwich has been to make clear to all residents that everyone is welcome. The day after the posters went up there was a demonstration outside the tower to show that people disagreed with the posters. The photo shows the wall at the entrance to the tower, now adorned with many posters that say things like, "Everyone welcome in Norwich,"; "Not in my name - we love you."; "Stand up to racism, love your neighbour."

Norwich is known as a city of sanctuary where refugees are welcome. On twitter someone posted a photo of the new posters and said, "This is the Norwich I want to live in."

what do you see in the picture?

where is it?

why is it there?

- why do you think someone put up a poster saying, "speak English or leave"? (because we know not everyone understands about diversity and no outsiders yet. Not everyone was lucky enough to go to a school like ours where everyone is welcome and we like being different. Some people are frightened of difference; they think everyone should be the same. That's the opposite view to us; we think it's wonderful to see difference, talk about each other being different and learn new things. But this person had a different view.)

- how did they want to make people feel? (scared, unwelcome, like an outsider)

- the residents could have ignored the posters, or just taken them down and threw them away. They could have left them up. What did the residents choose to do?

- why did they have a demonstration outside the block; what are they trying to show?

- where have the new posters come from? why do you think people put up the new posters?

- "Not in my name!" what does this mean

- how do you think residents felt when they saw the new posters?

"This is the Norwich I want to live in," what does this mean?

- With so many welcoming posters going up, what does this show about people living in Norwich today?

- What can we learn from the residents of the tower block?

- why is this about No Outsiders?

www.no-outsiders.com

No Outsiders in our school: teaching the Equality act in primary schools by Andrew Moffat