Saturday 26th June 2021
Celebrating Diversity week at Stamford
The Stamford Schools celebrated Diversity week which is nationally celebrated throughout schools.National School Diversity Week is a chance to celebrate diversity in schools and wider society. It’s also a chance to highlight the different challenges people may face and create a sense of belonging and understanding.Diversity week celebrations included:
- The new Y12 prefects putting together an assembly video to kick-off the week, wearing the colours of the rainbow and explaining the importance of diversity and inclusion;
- The Y12’s also organised a Scavenger Hunt with chocolate prizes (with 52 students across Y7 and 8 taking part)
- A film festival running during lunchtimes for KS3, with documentaries and short films based around the day’s theme
- ‘Find A Rainbow’ photo competition for staff and students
- A daily fact centred around the day’s theme
- Daily display items centred around the days theme, put together by the SAID (Stamford Allies for Inclusion and Diversity) committee
- A Diversi-tree, made by the Y12 prefects where students and staff can add a leaf showing their diversity or a time they felt included and accepted.