‘Don’t Dis My Ability’
MAS students celebrate difference in a week of appreciation: 22nd – 26th February 2016
Students at Mulberry Academy Shoreditch are displaying integrity, awareness and support this week in recognition of the differences within our learning community.
The week will provide our students with the opportunity to champion and promote their peers with SEN and Disabilities; raising understanding within the school community. The whole school will be taking part in cultural, social and moral learning opportunities; contemplating and celebrating difference.
Over the week, MAS students will receive a rich and diverse itinerary. Disabled artists, photographers, athletes and representatives from the Invictus Games Foundation will be speaking, coaching and inspiring with stories of success, motivation and exceptional feats.
Our students can look forward to a variety of events, including: inclusive football coaching from West Ham United and an England International Cerebral Palsy footballer. Students will be able to test their debating skills in the ‘Don’t Dis My ability’ Debate Mate competition and participate in an extensive Q&A session with an Invictus Games Gold medal winner.
Celebrating Difference Week will bring an exclusive film club to MAS, allowing students to watch, share, review and reflect together. The week will also see MAS students unleash their creativity through a disability photography lesson with published author and photographer Rosie Barnes, and take part in MAS’s first ever disability podcast.
The week will end with an awards ceremony, to honour and praise those students at MAS who have gone above and beyond in displaying acts of kindness, raising awareness and helping others.
