https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-51599121?fbclid=IwAR1AzoMt-Kg8Lo83j6Iv2D5Ci8KjK9FCNpeZLWkSMCs401R59cD9r3XuDQYQuaden 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
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