Issue 4 March 2009
News magazine of the Stephen Lawrence Education Standard in Leeds
New Arrivals The Hounding of David Oluwale is a powerful play recently staged at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. It is a potent reminder of the brutality of racism and of institutional responses which are a barrier to promoting race equality and community cohesion.
David Oluwale migrated to Leeds from Nigeria with great hopes and high aspirations. Leeds has a long history of receiving ‘New Arrivals’, their experiences
in the city ranging from hospitality to hostility, depending on the locality. The challenge for us during the economic downturn is to ensure that the experience of New Arrivals is that of a welcoming hospitality. The good practice in our schools for welcoming them and ensuring their entitlement to high quality provision and high aspirations is reported in this issue. The inauguration of President Barack Obama marks the most significant and inspirational development in the struggle for race equality, freedom and justice. It has raised confidence and hope globally. The event was marked with a celebration at the Leeds West Indian Centre - see pages 10 and 11. Many schools have used the story of President Obama – the son of a migrant - to raise aspirations and challenge racist ideology and assumptions. Individual determination, commitment and collective collaboration give us the power to bring about equality, justice and peace. Rehana Minhas Director Equality and Entitlement
Daniel Francis as David Oluwale at the West Yorkshire Playhouse – see pages 4 and 5
Peace Jammers
Play Watchers
Award Winners
Video Makers
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Our launch was brilliant On the evening of 20 January, Guiseley School held a launch event on the theme of celebrating diversity to mark their involvement with the Stephen Lawrence Education Standard. A full programme included dance and theatre pieces from Guiseley School students, music from community groups, workshops and displays. Activities were based in the drama studio, the library and the sixth form common room. Main organiser Andrew Nelson said: “The event was brilliant. The students were great, and there were some really interesting people there representing the varied communities of Leeds, including artists, storytellers and musicians. Everyone mixed in well, contacts were made and there are now some really interesting plans for integrating some of what happened into the curriculum and ethos of the school.” Four of the students involved talked about their contributions – Thomas Barber and Oliver Bell from Year 8, and Rajan Chavda and Thomas Waugh from Year 10: OLIVER: I was an SS officer, and also a Jewish boy on a transport in the play we did, which was based on Who do you think you are? on television. It was about an adopted Jewish girl
Thomas, Oliver, Rajan and Thomas
who traces her family back to Poland in the 1940s. THOMAS B: I was a parent and a doctor. A photo in the attic starts her on a journey, and she finds that most of her family perished at the hands of the Nazis. OLIVER: Her grandmother survived by joining a kindertransport to England. THOMAS B: She gets married and has a child – the girl’s mother.
RAJAN: I am the designer. It’s set to grow, because we want it to be for local primary schools and the community as well. The first issue included a piece by Year 7 students on Black History Month and another on President Obama. THOMAS W: And the next one will include a review of the play, along with all the other events connected with the Stephen Lawrence Education Standard.
OLIVER: The play ends happily, with a wedding.
RAJAN: It’s important that the whole thing is done by the students themselves, so that it is received better.
THOMAS W: We produced a magazine called Speak up, Speak Out.
THOMAS W: So now we’re looking for more students to keep it going.
The editor writes:
Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls was full of praise for the Harmony Special, produced for Holocaust Memorial Day, when he visited the Safer Schools Partnership Conference at the Royal Armouries in February. He is seen here with Rehana Minhas.
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Many thanks to all who sent me excellent, sometimes inspiring, material last year, and many apologies for not using it. We had to go through an official re-procurement exercise at Education Leeds, which has resulted in Harmony being re-awarded to Meerkat Publications and Design, I am pleased to say.
There is a wealth of material which needs to be disseminated in future issues, so please contact me with the details – or if you want a visit. The best way to do this is by emailing wilcocks@ntlworld.com. Feel free to send your comments on this issue as well.
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I came away a changed person PeaceJam is an innovative international peace education programme and youth movement led by eleven Nobel Peace Prize winners. We travelled to Los Angeles recently for the 2008 Peacejam International Conference which was also attended by Nobel Peace Laureates: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rigoberta Menchu Tum and Betty Williams, to name a few. I cannot describe the overwhelming feeling when I first walked into the sports hall at Marymount University. There were over two thousand people and it was truly amazing. We attended a full day conference which involved various talks and workshops given by the Laureates. Some of the stories we heard were truly inspiring and one in particular stands out in my mind. The Leeds Peace Jammers in Los Angeles
The goal is to tap into young people’s innate sense of justice and inspire them to become a new generation of peacemakers and active global citizens. Over a period of months Together For Peace worked with six Leeds high schools in order to catalyse a group to take part in the international PeaceJam event held over three days in Los Angeles during September 2008.
The schools involved were: Abbey Grange Church of England, Brigshaw High, Garforth Community College, Intake High, Otley Prince Henrys and South Leeds High, representing north, south, east and west of the city. Leanne Race, Year 13 student at Brigshaw High School and Language College, writes:
A young Burmese girl described the atrocities that were occurring in Burma and what she had been through. It was so emotional, so inspiring. I feel that I came away from this week a changed person. I’m calmer and when I’m having a ‘down’ moment, I always think back to the stories we heard and ask myself, “Is my life really that bad?” Websites: www.t4p.org.uk and www.peacejam.org
Ofsted says well done A team from Ofsted visited Leeds for
The team congratulated the local
This was made evident in the range
a week in September 2008 to
authority on the ‘very strong evidence
of service strategies for engaging
investigate how well Education Leeds
of their success in this work’ and
learners, parents and communities.
and Children Leeds support and
of the ‘steely determination’ shown
Multi-agency networks and partnerships
guide schools and children’s centres
by Education Leeds to make a
were said to work ‘increasingly well
to promote social responsibility and
difference to the lives of children,
together’ to manage their response to
community cohesion.
students and families.
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Powerful and Effective The Hounding of David Oluwale at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Photo by Keith Pattison. (L-R)Howard Charles (PC Jones), Luke Jardine (Inspector Geoffrey Ellerker), Steve Jackson (Sergeant Ken Kitching), Daniel Francis (David Oluwale)
A half-unzipped body bag is on a raised section of the stage. It is 4 May 1969. The police frogman has already identified the dead man inside, just pulled from the muddy depths of the River Aire, as a “coloured dosser used to hang around city centre”. There is a suspicious bruise clearly visible on the head. Detective Chief Superintendent John Perkins from Scotland Yard approaches, and the body sits up to speak to him. It is David Oluwale. It is a startling beginning for a play which tells a shocking story – of how a 38 year-old Nigerian man, a rough sleeper with a prison record and a history of mental illness, had been subjected to a lengthy campaign of violence and abuse by two police officers, and of how they were eventually jailed (for assault) after a difficult criminal investigation. The play was inspired by a book with the same name by Kester Aspden, which last year won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger award for non-fiction. Oladipo Agboluaje’s adaptation, adeptly directed by Dawn Walton, was 4
commissioned by the West Yorkshire Playhouse in association with the black theatre coalition Eclipse, and it is a powerful, effective and richly dramatic version of a long, exhaustivelyresearched study of a notorious racist crime by a criminology professor. The device of presenting the narrative through a dialogue between the victim and the visiting investigator works brilliantly: the play is never slow or over-earnest, but flows well as Oluwale and Perkins take us from event to event.
heroes – the eighteen year-old police cadet (Gazzer Galvin) who first heard disturbing rumours and pointed the finger when so many others did not, and DSC Perkins (an impressive Ryan Early), whose persistence and professionalism in a hostile environment led to the uncovering of the institutional racism in Leeds City Police forty years ago. Richard Wilcocks
Scenes of misery and brutality change quickly to dance-hall happiness, then back. The asylum becomes a Lagos street market. Oluwale speaks to his persecutors, and to the mother left behind in Africa. Daniel Francis is unnervingly convincing as David Oluwale, the stowaway from Lagos who at first in Leeds was “Yankee” with his pals, a quiet, smiling, amiable man whose real problems began after an arrest following a Saturday-night commotion. After spells in prison and years in Menston Asylum, where he was given electric shock treatments and put into comas induced by insulin injections, he was released into the community – or rather into a series of shop doorways and the clutches of Inspector Ellerker and Sergeant Kitching from the Leeds City Police. They beat him, urinated on him, pounded his head against the floor and sometimes drove him out to woods miles away, in places like Bramhope, where he was dumped. Steve Jackson portrays Kitching as the epitome of obnoxiousness, brash and bullying, with Ellerker (Luke Jardine) as a kind of pathetic follower. The two police villains are balanced by two police
Photo by Keith Pattison. Daniel Francis (David Oluwale) Ryan Early (DCS John Perkins)
Kester Aspden’s book (published by Jonathan Cape, ISBN 978-0224-08040-8) has a second title which was dropped for the play – Nationality Wog. This was taken from police charge sheets - one on which someone at the police station had written ”wog” over the original entry of “British”, and another which had the word “wog” typed in as the original record. I am sure that future researchers into institutional racism will put the book in the same league as the 1999 Macpherson Report into the death of Stephen Lawrence. Editor.
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Views from First Floor Robert Grey, George Stead, Fatimah Arusah, Lynsey Beaumont and Eleanor Richmond (pictured) are Year 11 students from various schools who wrote 500-word reviews of the play for Go Critical. and the truth behind the real facts left the audience overwhelmed. Fatimah
Even though the scenes in which he is in hospital are short, you can’t help feeling sorry for him when he starts to get hallucinations about his mother… This show is a definite must-see. Lynsey
I was left feeling infuriated and indignant. I realised that I had been in a bubble, so unaware of the racism and injustice that lurked right on my doorstep, having myself had no direct experience with the trouble caused by racism. Eleanor
This project was organised by First Floor, the new arts space in Leeds dedicated to young people which was opened by the West Yorkshire Playhouse last year. (Olapido Agboluaje))…creates a factual and visual representation of David’s struggles and successes through the use of contrasting flashbacks… (which)…help to relieve the severe feel of the play. Some flashbacks contain bright levels of colour, creating vivid characters and moods, while others contain insipid colours, reflecting negative moods. Robert
The derelict setting was used to a theatrical advantage, for example when the stairwell was pulled out to represent a hospital stretcher. (The play)… was a scrapbook of memories that gave us an insight into how not just racism, but in some scenes gender inequality, ruled our nation. George
The music and background gave you a sense of what era it was, it was almost as if I had stepped into a time machine and gone back to 1949.
“Their reviews are of an extremely high standard,” Jessica Farmer, Creative Education Officer, told Harmony. She welcomes enquiries about First Floor and can be phoned on 07595 082045 or emailed at firstfloor@wyp.org.uk
Details of the David Oluwale Memorial Appeal can be found at www.leedsmet. ac.uk/oluwale, along with God Come Home, a poem by Eliot Poetry Prize Nominee Ian Duhig.
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What they bring is amazing! Teacher Katie Carroll talked about new arrivals in Ebor Gardens Primary School, Burmantofts:
Laura, Binaly, Jhivar and Ehsan with Katie Carroll
conducted one of her sessions with teachers in Irish!
“Over the last five years, the intake of children with English as a new language has increased, so now we have 30 home languages in a population of 240.
We have regular network meetings to meet all the others in our wedge.
We have put in place what I believe is an effective system, for example, we have school packs in most of the home languages. Parental assistance is invaluable. We are active from the first day onwards. Every new arrival gets a fan to carry (pictured), with a selection of useful sentences on it, and we go through the Steps assessment properly. 6
It’s a challenge, but what they bring to us is amazing!”
Pauline Rosenthal from the Elmete Centre has been exceptionally helpful with lesson preparation, and Therese O’Sullivan is strong on understanding how it might feel to be in a classroom with a different language: she
Binaiy Mohammed came into Year 2 from Denmark, and Jhivar Saidgool came into Reception from Iraq. The home language of both is Kurdish. Ehsan Nishat came into Year 4 from Afghanistan. His home language is Farsi. Laura Stukova came into Year 5 from Slovakia, and her home language is Slovak.
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BINAIY: The best thing about English is the reading, and my favourite is a play called The Vinegar Bottle. I like doing drama! I like Leeds because I’ve got relatives here. I watch CBeebies on TV and I play Nintendo games. JHIVAR: We are writing a playscript at the moment: we all voted on which stories to use, from our collection in a book. We’re just about to pick the people who play the different characters, and we’re learning how to act. The best game we play is when we make shapes with our bodies to become the letters of the alphabet. EHSAN: I think Brazilian football is very good, and we are learning skills from it at Ebor Gardens. We are dribbling in the style of Cristiano Ronaldo, who plays for Manchester United, and I support the team. I like this school because the teachers get us to be polite and to say please and thankyou.
Hillcrest Primary School pupils Imran Ali from Pakistan, John Amoda from Zimbabwe and Saqibur Rahman from Bangladesh with a copy of the Welcome DVD made specifically for the school. Originally intended for those new to English, it has been such a success that it is now distributed to all parents. Ring the school (0113 262 4080) for a copy.
LAURA: The teachers here are nice to me, but in Slovakia they used to shout at us a lot. In school I prefer Maths and Art, especially Art. We did a story-picture using batik, which uses hot wax. We made a mess, but it was good when we finished because we stuck on jewels and glitter. I have cousins here, and many of my relatives live in Bradford.
The magic carpet flies to Afghanistan. The carpet is pink, green, red and blue. The first time I was flying I was scared. The sky was black and it was flapping. I would be flying to see my family. By Ehsan Neshat, from The Little Book of Stories, published by Ebor Gardens Primary School.
It’s fun when teacher reads Holy Rosary Catholic Primary School in Chapeltown has ninety pupils on the register, and twenty different languages. Daniel Kakoy in Year 5 is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and his first language is French. Michal Yemantecle in Year 4 is from Eritrea, with Tigrinya as first language and Lukas Grundza in Year 4 is from the Czech Republic. DANIEL: I have been here since Year 3. I came from a Catholic school in the Congo which had four playtimes. I used to live next to a police station. Here, I enjoy PE and football best. I got a certificate for sports last year, and I have been awarded a medal. I like tennis as well.
I play for the school team and I support Chelsea, because of Frank Lampard.
MICHAL: I like Numeracy best because it is easier to understand than English sometimes.
What am I reading? The Twits is a good book, James and the Giant Peach as well.
When I am at home I watch CBeebies – all of it. I also watch The Adventures of Tracey Beaker a lot.
I’m looking forward to going to Newcastle soon to see my uncle. He likes football too.
I like Science. We have done about what’s inside the human body in school, and all of our bones.
LUKAS: I have a translator here who helps me – my cousin.
I want to be a doctor.
I love listening to stories in class, like Horrid Henry. It’s fun when teacher reads. I like doing numbers as well. Golden Time on a Friday is my favourite because then I can do weaving. My favourite sport is basketball. 7
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I love Romeo and Juliet One of the most impressive appearances on the stage at the Annual Awards ceremony in the autumn was by four girls from Wortley High School. In spite of the fact that they were all new to English, and a few last-minute nerves, their statements to the audience were clear and well delivered. I want to be a fashion designer – or a chemist. RUSSELANIA: I like writing in English, I love singing, and I read loads – for example stories by Jacqueline Wilson. My favourite is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, though. In Leeds the people are friendly, old and young, so I like the city. My ambition is to be a singer, or a poet. My poem Recycling Cool was printed in a collection called World of Difference by Big Green Poetry Machine.
At the back: Rehana Minhas, Cllr Richard Harker, Kim Hunter, Louise Crombie, Lindsay Hazlewood (Wortley SENCO). At the front: Betiel, Russelania, Zadzi and Gabriele.
Betiel Abraha in Year 9 came from Eritrea, arriving in April 2007. Her first language is Tigrigna.
I like reading more than writing. At the moment in class we’re reading The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Russelania Da Silva Conga in Year 8 came from Angola in 2001, and started at Wortley in September 2007. She has refugee status, and her first language is Portuguese.
In Lithuanian schools you have to buy your own books and bring them. You always have to be quiet and the teachers are sterner than here.
Zadzisai (Zadzi) Maenzanise arrived in the UK in July 2007 from Zimbabwe. She has refugee status, and her first language is Shona. Gabriele Bartkauskaite in Year 8 arrived from Lithuania in July 2007, starting at Wortley in September 2007. Back at school, they spoke to Harmony: GABRIELE: I enjoy Drama, making things up. The topic was Witchcraft recently. It’s good for my English because you just have to speak. 8
In England the teachers can joke with you, and we don’t get as much homework. BETIEL: English is the best subject. I really love Romeo and Juliet which we’re doing now, especially Act 2 Scene 2 when he is in the Capulet’s garden and she is asking him if he loves her, speaking from the balcony. Leeds is beautiful and I am happy to be here, but I am sad about Eritrea because my grandma is there. I grew up with her, and I often call her on the telephone.
ZADZI: My English teacher is my form teacher and she is especially helpful. I’ve got a useful dictionary too. I am finding it difficult to learn an extra language like French. I like football, and I think I am a good goalie. I have been told I am soccer mad. Leeds feels safe for me, without violence, but the best day I ever had in my life was when I went to the Victoria Falls. I was seven years old. So that’s my happy memory – of back in Zimbabwe. EAL coordinator Kim Hunter commented: “We have a well-planned induction procedure at Wortley to make all new to English students settle in and become effective learners. We have a Polish teaching assistant as well – Magdalena Lasota – and she is invaluable. Every teacher, SENCO and Head of Year gets a copy of the overview which we produce for each student."
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We used the internet Miriam, Catherine and Sophie from Year 10 are amongst Lawnswood students using YouTube and iTunes to raise awareness. CATHERINE: We are raising awareness in Lawnswood by holding meetings, going into assemblies and organising a charity gig. SOPHIE: We also made a video for YouTube about how Lawnswood has a contract with a school in Northern Uganda.
Miriam Ridley, Catherine Simpson, Sophie Hobley
MIRIAM: Invisible Children is a charity based in the United States. It deals with children in Northern Uganda who have been terribly affected by war and civil unrest.
SOPHIE: And for me it was something on the charity’s website. Two children who had escaped from the Lords Resistance Army were speaking about casual killing and how they were brainwashed into believing they couldn’t be killed if they believed in the cause.
MIRIAM: People in our school have become genuinely interested because the videos on the internet – from us and from the charity - have been effective.
MIRIAM: In Music, some of Year 9 are working on a song about Invisible Children.
You should look at www.invisiblechildren.com, for example.
CATHERINE: They’re taking it to a group of dancers.
CATHERINE: The most moving thing for me was learning about the young girls who are HiV positive, and about all the diseases which are not properly treated.
SOPHIE: They’re creating a music video to put on iTunes for downloading. A whole class is involved in this!
I am a farm lad The primary school winner of Picture Peace, the Sixth Leeds Peace Poetry Competition, was Alexander Ian Briggs, who is in Year 6 at Hawksworth Church of England Primary School. He received his certificate and congratulations at a ceremony held in the Leeds Civic Hall in December. This is his entry:
Peace Poetry Peace is three men sat on a wooden bench under an olive tree discussing
He talked about his poem: “I was thinking about a photo of three men sat looking at the camera which I saw in a history book when I was little. I think they had signed a peace treaty.
about the EU whilst listening to the gentle trickle of water.
I am a farm lad – my dad is a farmer so for me the animals making a noise means peace!
Peace is the squawk of chickens, bawling of cattle and bleating of sheep.
In fact I own some sheep and some cattle.”
Peace is the sound of money. Peace is the sound of the gun Knowing the fox is dead. Peace is the roar of the wild. Peace is silence.
Margaret Lord, teacher responsible for the school’s participation, added: “Hawksworth is an inclusive school and we treat the poetry competition seriously. Work for it fits in perfectly with what we do for the Stephen Lawrence Education Standard.”
Alexander
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Rosa sat so Martin could walk… Martin walked, so Obama could run... Obama is running so our children can fly! It was the quote of the evening in
Barack Obama was about to take
the Leeds West Indian Community
the oath of office as the forty-fourth
Centre on 20 January – Inauguration
president of the United States, in the
Day, a truly historic occasion, a
bicentennial year of Abraham Lincoln’s
moment of hope.
birth, under the theme “A New Birth
of Freedom,” a phrase drawn directly from the Gettysburg Address. A huge flat screen showed the wellwrapped crowds outside in the Mall in Washington and the man speaking
Some of the people there spoke to Harmony: Learning Mentor and AimHigher Coordinator
Chairperson of the Black Majority Churches in Leeds
Barack Obama’s presidency symbolises the removal of mental barriers that previously surrounded not only African-American people but all underrepresented and misrepresented people.
I helped organise the evening because I wanted to mark something special for African Caribbean people in Leeds.
Schools can use the example of Barack to help open debates, to motivate students and to inspire them that yes, they can and will go on to succeed!
Liz Archibald
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This is a moment we never would have envisaged a few years ago. I hope that there will now be much more confidence to help us go forward.
Gloria Hanley
Nigerian PhD student at Leeds University, musician, storyteller, visual artist I believe it signals hope for the younger generation to aspire for bigger things and to believe that their dreams will come true. They should be inspired by his character and by this example – he’s a great model for the people of the world.
Oluseyi Ogunjobi
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For those unfamiliar with black history, the Rosa in the quote is Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, described by the US Congress as the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey a bus driver’s order that she give up
to them, and his words seemed to be addressed directly to the people packed into the large, warm room in Leeds: “We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this earth…we cannot help but believe that
Finance and Monitoring Officer, Leeds Bicentenary Transformation Project I wish some of my family were alive to see this, and more recently some of the black young people who have died in our community.
her seat to make room for a white passenger. Her action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which led to the creation of the Civil Rights Movement.
Although Rosa received many honours in later years for her action, she suffered at the time, losing her job as a seamstress in a local department store.
She organized and collaborated with Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to launch him to national prominence.
the old hatreds shall someday pass… that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself… This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed – why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across
Writer living in Barnsley, originally from Zimbabwe This is a victory for the peoples of the world, not just for African-Americans. Obama’s first name means ‘blessing’ in Swahili, so it speaks for itself that he is God’s choice.
this magnificent Mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath…”
Chapeltown Resident Today, there was a miracle I never thought I would see, and it brought me to tears. If only Rosa Parks could have been there to see it, because she was the starter.
This is the total coming together as one family of blacks and whites.
Paul Auber
Godfrey Samurino
Colette Aherne
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It has had an impact Jonathan, Lorraine, Eleonora and Andrew, all in Year 11 at Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School, helped to make a slide show entitled What is a Refugee? LORRAINE: And it’s also important to show it to children of the same age as the ones on the screen because of the great differences in the way they live. Our presentation should make them realise that we can do something about it. ELEONORA: It really has had an impact – a lot of them were shocked by what they saw. War affecting young children – that is upsetting.
This contained images of children who had been kidnapped and forced to become soldiers in Sierra Leone. It was shown at the Awards Ceremony in October. JONATHAN: We researched the topic over several lessons, using various websites like the one for the BBC. Powerful rock music was chosen to go with the images because we knew the audience would relate to it. LORRAINE: It was part of our contribution to Refugee Week. We did an assembly for each year, and at
the end of each one we showed our presentation. ELEONORA: We had to show the brutality of what was going on in Sierra Leone without shocking people too much. We concentrated mainly on pictures of young children with guns. ANDREW: What sticks in my mind is the blatant contrast between the innocence of the children involved and the weapons of war they are carrying. JONATHAN: It’s important to show that suffering is a global problem.
ANDREW: Child soldiers is a topic people tend to shut away and we’re trying to bring it to light. It might be a catalyst for change. The cornerstone of international refugee protection is the 1951 Geneva Convention (http://www.unhcr. ch/1951convention/) and the 1967 Protocol. The Convention provides protection to those who have: “a well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion…”
Stephen Lawrence Education Standard AIMS To develop effective leadership, and a whole school approach, which embeds race equality into the life of the school.
To examine policies and their outcome, and to guard against causing disadvantage for any section of our communities.
To empower children and young people to become responsible citizens of the world.
To make sure that the duties of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, and the duty to promote community cohesion 2006, are fulfilled.
To acknowledge and celebrate existing good practice in promoting race equality and ethnic minority in schools.
To improve the outcomes for young people and adults in our school.
Education Leeds 10th Floor East, Merrion House, 110 Merrion Centre, Leeds LS2 8DJ 0113 395 0009 rehana.minhas@educationleeds.co.uk
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Harmony Editor Richard Wilcocks
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