Framlinghamian 2023 - Flipbook - Page 75
GLOBAL CITIZEN
NEWS
Pupils and sta昀昀 urged
‘Let’s start a conversation
about racism’.
In May 2023, the College welcomed
Jemma, a quali昀椀ed QTS and trained
guest speaker Jemma Roye to deliver talks
diversity consultant, founded ‘Let’s
to the Year 10 and Year 12 cohorts, focused
Start A Conversation’ to equip young
on dealing with experiences of racism,
people to start and continue powerful
racist language and microaggressions.
conversations on diversity, inclusion
and representation. Talking about her
Her talk coincided with an Equality,
experiences, she said: “For a long time,
Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) audit the
parents, students and educators have felt
College had conducted amongst both sta昀昀
that the British national curriculum is not
and pupils, aimed to explore and help
as ethnically representative as it should
better understand the way in which our
be. This initiative stems from a sincere
community thinks about EDI, and identify
passion to make a di昀昀erence in the lives
any important improvements we may
of young people, and to help equip the
need to make in this area.
next generation to go into a diverse world
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