For our regular school assembly this morning, we spoke about the topic of discrimination and how it still affects the lives of millions of people worldwide.
We enjoy a discrimination-free environment at school and as a result, we feel the benefits of living and working side by side with people from many different backgrounds. For our pupils, it is natural to hear other languages spoken by their friends and to learn a few words or phrases in each of them.
However, we enjoy this environment because we work hard to maintain it and it is important to remember that it is often necessary to endure great hardships to enjoy such freedoms.
Today coincided with a public holiday in South Korea, where many of our pupils are from. We learned how they commemorate a protest against oppression and discrimination at the hands of Imperial Japan in 1919. Tens of thousands were killed, injured or arrested for taking part.
It is a big topic for some small kids to take in but it is an important one. They play naturally together but at some point in their lives they will witness discrimination in some form or another and maybe they will be the people to stand up and fight against it.
