Children in Orgill spent a week celebrating difference
and diversity in a rich variety of ways. They practised greeting one another
and their toys in several languages, including Greek and Nigerian, shimmied
their inhibitions away in dances of other countries, including belly dances,
wrote their own poems, tasted delicious exotic food, read a delightful big
book about Zog, an alien from a planet made of other people's rubbish,
designed a poster for Egremont's Fair Trade Day and a wall hanging to send
to their new friends in Thotogamuwa School in Sri Lanka, and studied the
progress of the cocoa bean in all its the stages up to the unwrapping of a
bar of chocolate. It was such fun that children signed up for more in after
school activities.
The whole week reinforced the message proclaimed in posters throughout the
school that they are not isolated individuals but part of a community where
everyone has rights and duties which stand up because they are in perfect
balance with one another. I have a right to be treated with respect. I have
a duty to treat other people with respect. I have a right to my own space. I
have a duty to respect other people's space.
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Above: Lydia and Dylan hold up the felt hanging they will be sending to Thotogamuwa School
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Matthew, Maisie, Jesssica, Danielle, Eden, Eva and Chloe practise their belly dance. |
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Learning to say Hello in Nigerian |
Mrs King watches
Ethan, Shannon, Jodie and Brooke |