People and places
Making strides towards equality Clare Smith describes her school’s initiative against discrimination Working in education, we are often required to manage behaviour. It is part and parcel of helping students to mature. Nothing is quite as impressive though as when students challenge each other, holding one another to account and growing their environment into a self-governing landscape. Last summer a group of Year 8 boys made an inappropriate joke. I imagine this is familiar the world over, but what they were not counting on was a sixth former stopping and Winter
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| 2017
reprimanding them. Taken aback, they responded quite negatively to the challenge, yet when the sixth former came to relay the story, she quickly cut off my apologies with a call to action: Wouldn’t it be much better if someone explained to the boys why what they had done was inappropriate? Couldn’t we use this as a learning opportunity too? Out of this, Equality Week was born. It started with a vision from three sixth formers to help our
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