Anti-Racism Award

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Beechwood Celebrations Calendar. 

This is our Beechwood Calendar of celebrations throughout the year as we celebrate diversity within our school. We celebrate these events through assemblies, activities and visitors to the school. 

In July our school year ends with our Spirit Alive week, which concludes the work we have done during the year and we use this week to acknowledge that these are global issues. 

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Signposting

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Black History Month

At Beechwood every year in October we celebrate Black History Month. There are many activities throughout the month and pupils research and produce various projects; then at the end of the month, they present assemblies to their parents. 

Here is some of our work from Black History Month.

Early Years

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 5

Black Virtual Library

Links

• Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City

• ESOL at Kentmere Community Centre

• Jamaica Society Leeds

• Embracing Diversity & Inclusion in Recruitment

• Business Britain: The Diverse Journeys

• Documentary screening on racial equality and Leeds mental health

• Gypsy and Traveller Forum Meeting

• SAA UK

Languages Spoken at Beechwood

Bulgarian	English	Italian	Kosovan
Kurdish
Lithuanian	Mandarin	Cantonese	Polish
Portuguese	Romanian	Russian	Twi
Urdu

Heritage Day

Download a copy of the PowerPoint from the assembly that the children had to learn more about heritage day. ⬇️

Terminology

• A.B.L. or A.L.E. Advanced Bilingual Learner, Advanced Learner of English possibly born in the UK but speaking or exposed to languages other than English in the home, pupils who have been in the UK for some time and have a good command of English.
• B.A.M.E. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic pupils.
• Dual Heritage: Having parents from different ethnicities or cultural backgrounds.
• E.A.L. Pupils who have English as an additional language.
• N.t.E  New to English; recently arrived in the country, at the very early stages of learning English or born in the UK and just starting in FS.
• E.S.O.L. English for speakers of other languages.
• T.E.F.L. Teaching English as a foreign language.