"There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted."
- Sun Tzu
It is important to us at Oatlands Infant School that embedded within our curriculum is the opportunity for our pupils to learn about and to celebrate diversity in all forms. Our curriculum has been carefully designed to ensure that diversity is not taught as a stand-alone lesson but interwoven within every lesson throughout the school day. This can be seen within the books we chose to study in English, our resources as well as the topics we teach. We teach about all the protected characteristics at an age- appropriate level to ensure our pupils have an awareness, develop tolerance and understanding and feel included.
As part of diversity celebration, we take part in some special themed days and weeks including:
Wear it Red Day (Show Racism the Red Card)
Children’s Mental Health Week
Neurodiversity Week
Every term, as part of our P.S.H.E. work, the whole school comes together to celebrate a themed Unity Day. Our Unity Days give the children - and adults too - time to explore concepts around protected characteristics, sharing important conversations and outcomes of learning with each other.
During the day, the children take part in a host of activities carefully designed to help them explore each concept in an age-appropriate way.
We also welcome visitors on the day. Past visitors have included North Yorkshire Police and Police Dog's Jess and Hector. We have also received special videos from members of our community.
This year we have celebrated Stopping Stereotypes (please see our P.S.H.E. page for more information on about this day) and in the Summer we will celebrate our first Fabulous Families day.