An anti-racist approach
At Pattishall CE Primary, we are committed to deeply educating our staff and children within an anti-racist environment.
We acknowledge colour.
We challenge overt racism.
We are unpicking institutionalised racism and unconscious bias.
We are teaching our children the best that has been thought and said from across the globe.
We are doing this within our enquiry led curriculum. Our children are not afraid to ask questions in order to formulate their own ideas and stand up for what is right.
Not tokenistic
We are at the beginning of our journey, following work with Paul from NREC and Sylvia from the NEU.
We are using the NEU toolkit and our Christian values to audit our curriculum, plan for the future and ensure that our children break the cycle.
We all make mistakes, but we're doing the best we can. And when we know better, we will do better.
Diversity Built Britain
Britain’s history is rich and diverse.
For more than 1,100 years, the nation’s story has been told through coins struck by The Royal Mint, a narrative carried in the pockets and purses of all its people. The contribution of ethnic minority communities has been such an important part of that story but has often gone unrecognised. This coin has been created to celebrate all the people who have made Britain what it is today.
The coin design by Dominique Evans features the words ‘DIVERSITY BUILT BRITAIN’ on a structure composed of interconnected triangles. The lines are linked to form a network, with each part just as important as the next in uniting the whole composition.
There is lots more to find out and activities to explore here: https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/diversity-coin/
Share with me you coin designs and I will add them to this web page.
What did Jesus really look like?
When we think of Jesus we see...
When we think of Jesus we see...
When we think of Jesus we see...
As we count down tot he birth of Christ, we are bombarded with images of the Nativity scene.
Jesus depicted as a white man
When we think of Jesus we see...
When we think of Jesus we see...
However, through the whitewashing of history, have we misrepresented what Jesus would have looked like?
But... Jesus was from Nazareth
When we think of Jesus we see...
But... Jesus was from Nazareth
Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Mary and Joseph of Nazareth.
Nazareth is a city in Israel.
Nazareth is in Israel
Has history been whitewashed?
But... Jesus was from Nazareth
Based on this fact alone, it is more than likely that Jesus would have had brown skin.
Has history been whitewashed?
Has history been whitewashed?
Has history been whitewashed?
Even though Jesus was a middle-Eastern Jew, the image of a white Christ has been propagated by Western art for decades.
The real face of Jesus:
Has history been whitewashed?
Has history been whitewashed?
We have looked at how anthropologists have reconstructed Jesus' face based on a skull found in Israel from Jesus' era.
Credit: BBC News