Cross-Cutting Themes: Diversity
Cross-Cutting Themes: Diversity
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Diversity acknowledges and respects differences in people. It is understanding that each learner is unique and brings something new to the school environment. Curriculum design should reflect this to ensure a responsive and sensitive approach to the beliefs and practices of its learners, whilst also educating and empowering them to ensure compassion, empathy, understanding and equity.
Learners should become increasingly aware of a range of specific characteristics which can define our identity, including sex, gender, race, religion, age and disability. The whole school community has a key role to play in developing ethically informed citizens of Wales and the wider world and in doing so create valued contributors to our societies.
Key Principles
Our vision recognises that diversity improves critical thinking skills, builds empathy and encourages learners to think differently.
Learning experiences represent and celebrate the rich diversity within the world.
The pedagogies adopted lead to acknowledgement and understanding of our diverse world and engender respect for its people and places.
Learners feel a sense of belonging and value within the class and school environment and beyond.
Learners have opportunities to recognise and celebrate diversity.
Key considerations:
Does our school vision reflect and respect the diverse nature of all our learners and their families?
How do we encourage leaners to feel confident when expressing their beliefs, culture and identity?
How often do we provide opportunities for learners to interact with their peers on a social level, and equip them with skills they will use for the rest of their lives within a diverse school, community and country?
To what extent do we encourage leaners to recognise, discuss, respect and understand diversity through our curriculum design?
What opportunities do we offer for learners to share their views and reflect on the importance of diversity?
In what way does our curriculum reform recognise the diverse culture of society enabling learners to celebrate the nature of all societies thus promoting equality, inclusion, social cohesion and a feeling of being valued?
How do we support learners to consider what it is like to stand in someone else’s shoes and develop their relationships as a result?
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