We Are All Different: A Celebration of Diversity!

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Ask each student to bring in a CD of music from their family of origin. Explain about each culture and how music plays a role in their cultures and celebrating traditions. Talk about what instruments are used. Add similar CDs to your music library and use them in daily music activities. Reading Spot Light The Sneeches by Dr. Seuss We Are All Different. We Are All Friends! Display Banner- This display banner is a lovely way to promote inclusion in your school. Display it in communal areas to encourage everyone to celebrate differences. This story explores how everyone in the neighborhood is a different shade of brown - from peanut butter to chocolate - and does a great job of subtly explaining that people are all different shades of the same color. Why Am I Different by Norma Simon Syeda Mohshin has insight into ethnicity/culture/disability/nationality. She is a primary school teacher born in Bangladesh; she has children with dyslexia, hearing and vision impairment, and anxiety. How can we encourage children to celebrate all the wonderful things that are making us unique, the different cultures, beliefs and values? This pastel-coloured We Are All Different and That Is Beautiful Inspirational Poster is a great conversation started about the importance of being tolerant and accept diversity to younger children. it can be a wonderful display during Neurodiversity Celebration Week (March 21, 2022 - March 27, 2022).

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We Are All Different: What Makes You Special? PowerPoint - As a follow-up session, you could encourage children to think about what makes them special with this PowerPoint. Ask the children to consider how they can celebrate the differences that make us all beautiful with this lovely muted rainbow-coloured poster. A beautiful poster to display in your classroom throughout the year, but also in your staff room. Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a week-long event designed to provide an opportunity for pupils and teachers to learn more about neurodiversity, and for neurodiverse pupils to develop a more positive perception of their own unique neurodiverse traits and skills. If you enjoyed reading 'We Are All Different', we have lots Twinkl Originals stories to support EYFS children when learning about the world around them. It also helps them realize that we're all humans, despite differences in how we look or dress, or what we eat or celebrate. Games and activities offer a fun way for young children to learn about differences and similarities among people and to introduce the concept of diversity. All types of differences such as race, religion, language, traditions, and gender can be introduced this way.

This book shows how everyone is different and friends too. Through bright and colourful illustrations, it shows children the various differences people might have, such as their hair colour or family structure, and that these differences are something to be celebrated.

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Gilland is a Swedish illustrator who loves all things retro, quirky imagery, and folk art themes. She studied interior design at Accademia Italiana Moda and has twenty years of experience in illustration. She illustrated Macmillan's This is Our World and We Are All Different.

The author explores sensitive issues such as adoption and unusual things such as eating macaroni in the bathtub, but manages to explore diversity in all forms. Hayley Goleniowska has helped especially with the spread on learning disabilities. Her daughter has Down’s syndrome and she is an author and blogger on the subject of learning disability.Volunteering can have a meaningful and positive impact on your community and is a fantastic way to meet people, make connections and be happier. You can never tell who you will meet or what new information you may learn, or the influence this could have on your life. Rebecca Heyes is a dyslexia and dyscalculia specialist and also helped with the neurodiversity element of the book. The assembly PowerPoint explores what makes us all special and different. Many of the slides offer opportunities for discussion, so you could ask for volunteers to answer the questions. For example, you can ask children what the word 'different' means as well as how they're different from their friends. Ask pupils to think about all the things that make them who they are: their looks, their strengths, their religion, their family and their culture. You might be similar to other people in our school community, or you might be very different, but we are all welcome and we are all part of a wonderful, diverse world.

Have children try on the various items of clothing and discuss the culture that wears each one and why/how that style of clothing was created. Place the items in the dramatic play area so that children can wear the clothing as part of their play scenarios.

This We Are All Different and That Is Beautiful Inspirational Poster has been designed to encourage children to think positively about their differences and what makes them unique and how this is embraced and celebrated in the classroom. There's a full range of additional resources available to support this story too. Just like the storybook, they've been written by teachers and designed to be used in the classroom. Take a look at these and see how you can use them in your teaching: