This morning my eldest daughter (Year 2) did a class assembly based on this half-term's geography project 'Where we come from'. One of the great things about living in this part of London is that there are so many people from so many different parts of the world. I'll no doubt forget some of the countries represented in this class assembly (with 30 children) but I can remember: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, England, Ireland, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Sweden, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Portugal, Albania, Bangladesh, Somalia.
One of my responsibilities as a school governor is to ensure that the school's equalities policy is implemented and it was great to see all these children recognising that they are unique and that they are special, and taking the time to celebrate each other's culture. Hopefully as this class goes through the school together their multi-cultural friendships will grow and they will leave school free from the stereo-types and prejudices that we fall into when we start seeing groups of people as 'them' and 'us'.
Unfortunately, but understandably, the school's photography policy means that although we could take photos we can't put them on the internet.
