We Are All Different: A Celebration of Diversity!

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Some may not want to get married because they’ve seen how dysfunctional their parents’ marriage was. They don’t want that to get repeated for themselves. One of the most important lessons to learn as a child is to embrace and celebrate our differences. Fostering a general atmosphere of kindness in your classroom not only helps children improve their social skills but also sets them up fantastically for the rest of their lives. Teaching children to be proud of their differences, whilst also being respectful towards others, can hopefully inspire them to be positive and kind people when they grow older. Asking these questions will help children to get to know each other and learn that everyone is different and unique. This is a fantastic activity to do at the start of the school year or during an 'All About Me' topic, encouraging children to learn about each other and themselves. There is no emotion that only a select few people feel because our fundamental neurobiology is the same.

Similarly, our environment can sometimes program us with beliefs that override our innate genetic programmings. Showcasing your students’ work. A bright, colourful display board littered with your students’ work and art is a great way to showcase their fabulous efforts. Displays such as these are often changed and updated throughout the year, which adds to the interactive feel and shows the class’ progress as the year goes on. Fostering a positive atmosphere in the classroom may also help prevent bullying, as kids can be more accepting of each other's differences. Not only that, but if a child feels more comfortable in a classroom setting, they can improve their confidence and self-esteem as well! To consolidate teaching. Using a board to display key words, phrases, or content that you have been learning as a class can help reinforce your students’ knowledge and understanding. For example, if you notice there are certain topics that your pupils commonly struggle with, you could put up some handy posters to reinforce the correct information and help your class remember the key points. To learn about the lifecycle of a caterpillar, try The Cautious Caterpillar. It's great for a minibeasts topic and can inspire interest in the natural world.

Why are classroom displays so important?

Use these beautiful photos to help children celebrate differences. This helpful set of reference images can be used as a great starting point for beginning a discussion on ways in which people are similar and different. Children can talk about themselves positively and share what makes them different from their classmates.

Add to your diversity display board with some more of our wonderful resources. Here are just a few of our favourites: This attention-grabbing ideas resource is designed to be used alongside the We Are All Different eBook. As they go through preschool, primary school, secondary school and beyond, children will meet many, many different types of people. Not all of these people will be the same or similar to them. We Are All Different: What Makes You Special? PowerPoint- This PowerPoint is a fantastic way of getting your class talking! The slides ask children to think about questions such as 'What is your favourite thing to do?' and 'What languages do you use?'. There's a full range of additional resources available to support this story too which have all been written by teachers and designed to be used in the classroom.This resource is perfect to use during Disability Pride Month in July. Why should children learn that we are all different? We have created a glorious and engaging We Are All Different: Colourful Semantics resource in three different ability levels to not only help you find something suitable for specific pupils but as a way of adapting the activity for a group of pupils at a range of abilities. Many well-meaning people will sagely tell you we are all unique, that we have our own peculiarities and idiosyncrasies. This makes you believe that no two people are alike just like no two snowflakes are alike. 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: When we get a new phone, it has default factory settings. People customize the settings according to their own needs and preferences.

The overall message of the story - that everyone is unique, and that there's no right or wrong way of being - will help make your classroom a more friendly and accepting environment, where children get on with one another regardless of their differences. The activites are based on themes within the book, for example different hair, rainbow colours and different types of weather. Follow a week in the life of a zoo vet as he tries to find the right treatment for different animals in The Zoo Vet. It's full of opportunities for discussion and will help children learn about a variety of animals.

You can use this banner to emphasise the key elements of the topic, and to make your classroom display or role-play area that bit more lovely! This one in particular is great for starting to design your very own diversity display board. How can I create a diversity display board using this resource?