Transcript click here - Show Racism the Red Card

Several weeks ago we had an anti racism
workshop. We learnt about Islamophobia .This is
a hate of Muslims, followers of the Islam
religion. We were shown several short films
about how people have been mistreated
because of their religion.
We have been taught about how people have
insulted and even attacked people of the Islam
religion. We were told about people who have
been stopped in the street and been called
terrorist and other unkind names. One girl was
stopped by some boys who called her headscarf
a tea cloth.
We have learnt how some people can be racist;
and how this can affect peoples lives. We also
learnt how to cope with racism if we see it.
We enjoyed several activities, one of which
involved writing a word that came to mind when
the word Muslim was said.
 We also had a football training session – it was
great to hear real life experiences from people
we respect.
 In previous sessions we also watched a DVD and
played games where we finished sentences and
talked about whether we thought certain words
were racist or not.
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We also had a workshop last year and not
only our class had one, Year 5 and 6
classes had the experience of anti racism
lesson.
We think that this is a great way to teach
children about how wrong racism is.
We are proud that we don’t experience
racism at Ashmount – we want to keep it
that way!