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"I
think it's important to learn about black history, because if you
only learn about one race people won't know what their own cultures
have done. ...And they'll only think about one thing and people
won't get the recognition they deserve." (
Akua in Year 6).
Our
headteacher, Peter Woodhead says,
"Our school motto of 'We Care' is all about understanding each
other. It's inside that matters.
We
might look different on the outside, but we're all the same on the
inside and so that everybody's got to be equal, we've done all sorts
of things at our school to help make sure that people are equal."
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on the 'play' button and listen to our Steel-bands and what
people have to say. |
As
well as teaching black history in our school, we believe that making
music which joins cultures together is important too.
Dudley
Nesbitt is the peripatetic steel-pan teacher and he creates special
moments at St. Peter's.
He
says that, "Steel
pans is for everybody - I mean the white children and the black
children.
 Some
of the black children, probably feel proud seeing the steel pans
at the school; seeing that their parents or their grandparents,
came from the Caribbean and West Indies where Steel-Pans were invented,
but it's for every child in the school really to play."
Our
headteacher, Mr Woodhead, is just proud of us, his school and our
school winning the Stephen Lawrence award because of what it means...
"We
have a school here that I think is very special. A school where
children do get on with each other; children are good to each other;
and they don't say horrible things about each other because they've
got a different coloured skin.
...And
it's a statement that the Stephen Lawrence Award says that this
school stands for something ...and it stands for everybody being
equal."
At
St. Peter's Primary School we all feel equal ...and we're proud
of our school too!
Report
by Dominic, Tyler, Abigail & Athene Year 6 Children at St.Peter's
CE Primary School
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on the Red 2 to find out what the children at Shakespeare Primary
School feel about racism!
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