Lesson video

Hello, my name's Miss Willow, and I'm going to be your teacher for today's lesson.

Today's lesson is called "Celebrating Difference", and it fits into the unit Communities: Who is in my community? I'm so excited to teach you today, so let's make a start.

By the end of today's lesson, you'll be able to explain how acceptance and celebration of difference creates more joyful communities.

Before we get started with today's lesson, we need to go over some ground rules.

These help to make sure that everyone feels safe and comfortable during today's lesson.

First of all, Laura says that we need to listen to others.

This means that if someone else is speaking, we are not going to talk over them.

Andeep says that we need to respect each other's privacy, and this means that we're not going to ask anyone any personal questions as this can make some people feel uncomfortable.

Next, Jacob says we need to not have any judgment, and this means that if someone chooses to share a story, feeling, or an experience, we are not going to judge them for it.

And finally, Izzy says that we can choose our level of participation.

This means that it's up to us how much we want to join in with today's lesson.

We're now going to go through the keywords for today's lesson.

These are gonna pop up quite a few times in today's lesson, so it's important that we have a good understanding of what each of these keywords mean.

First of all, we have the keyword accept.

This means to like and respect someone for who they are.

Next, we have celebrate.

To celebrate someone is to praise someone for who they are or something that they've done.

Next, we have contribute.

This means to give time or money towards something that's important.

And finally, we have community.

A community is a group of people who live, work, or spend time in the same place.

As we go through today's lesson, keep an eye out for these keywords and when you spot them, see if you can remember what they mean.

Today's lesson is split into two learning cycles.

Our first learning cycle is called Why should we be accepting of difference? And our second learning cycle is called How can we accept and celebrate each other? Let's make a start on our first learning cycle: Why should we be accepting of difference? Everyone is different.

We all like different things.

Laura says, "I like going swimming and going camping in the summer with my family." Andeep says, "I like writing stories and painting.

I also love helping my dad to cook delicious meals for our family." Aisha says, "I like going to the mosque with my grandma and playing at the park with my neighbor's dog." Jun says, "I love eating tuna sandwiches and playing dress up at home." Maybe you want to have a think about the different things that you'd like to do too.

Let's do a check for understanding to see how you're doing.

How are the things that Jun and Laura like different to each other? Can you remember? Pause the video, tell the person next to you, tell me or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you remembered that Laura likes going swimming and camping with her family, but Jun loves eating tuna sandwiches and playing dress up at home.

Daisy says, "We are learning how to speak Italian at home.

Sometimes we visit our family in Italy in the summer." Nyla says, "Our blended family enjoys cultures from Ireland and Jamaica, but we only speak one language at home." She also says, "I love going to Irish dancing club after school." Let's do a check for understanding to see how you're doing.

What is one difference between Daisy and Nyla's families? Can you remember? Pause the video, tell the person next to you, tell me or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you remembered that Daisy's family speaks Italian and English, whereas Nyla's family speak only English.

When we accept and celebrate each other's differences, people can feel happy to be themselves.

Andeep says, "My friends tell me that they love my paintings.

This makes me want to continue to be creative." And Aisha says, "When my family celebrates Eid, my teacher decorates the classroom.

This makes me feel proud to be Muslim." Daisy says, "Sometimes, my friends ask me to teach them words in Italian.

This makes me proud that my dad is Italian." Nyla says, "My teacher once let me bring in my Irish dancing dress for show and tell.

My classmates asked me lots of questions which made me feel important." This shows how it can make people feel really happy and proud when we celebrate and accept their differences.

Let's do a check for understanding to see how you're doing.

I'd like you to fill in the missing words in this sentence.

When we, blank, and, blank, each other's differences, people can feel happy to be themselves.

Where I've said the word blank, which words are missing? Pause the video, tell the person next to you, tell me, or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you said that the missing words were accept and celebrate.

When we accept and celebrate each other's differences, people can feel happy to be themselves.

Well done if you got this right.

Ms. Walsh says, though, that, "Sometimes people don't always accept or celebrate each other's differences, and this can make people feel upset, lonely, unwelcome, or angry." Laura says, "Someone said that it was weird that I enjoy camping with my family.

This made me feel upset." And Jun said, "When I was eating my tuna sandwich at lunchtime, someone said that it smelled horrible.

This made me not want to eat my favorite food at school anymore." Ms. Walsh says that, "We should never be unkind to someone else because they're different.

Sometimes, we might think that something is strange if we've never seen it or experienced it before, but we should ask questions respectfully and curiously and listen carefully to the answer to help us understand a person better." Jun's going to ask Laura a question: "What do you like about camping, Laura?" And Laura says, "I love roasting marshmallows on the campfire and sleeping in a tent under the stars." Jun says, "Wow, I've never been camping before, but that sounds so fun." Even though Jun and Laura have differences between each other, Jun is still showing that he can ask respectful and curious questions to help learn more about Laura and the things that she enjoys.

Laura now wants to ask Jun a question: "I've never tried tuna before.

What does it taste like, Jun?" Jun says, "Tuna in a sandwich with mayonnaise tastes so yummy.

The tuna is a little fishy and the bread is soft." Laura says, "Ooh, I would love to try it one day." Laura is showing that she can ask respectful and curious questions.

Even though there are differences between Laura and Jun, Laura is, again, just like Jun was before, able to show that she can ask respectful and curious questions to learn more about Jun and the things that he enjoys too.

Let's do a check for understanding to see how you're doing.

What can we do to help us understand a person better? A, ignore them, B, ask them questions, or C, listen carefully? What can we do to help us understand a person better? Can you remember? Pause the video, tell the person next to you, tell me, or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you said that B and C are correct.

To help us understand a person better, we can ask them questions and we can listen carefully.

Well done if you said the same thing.

Celebrating each other makes us feel happier.

If people feel happy, they're more likely to contribute, which means give, more to their communities.

Andeep says, "Because my friends make me feel happy about being creative, I now like to draw posters for our school community.

I recently drew a poster for our school summer fair." Police Officer Paula says that, "My family and friends celebrated me when I became a police officer.

This made me feel confident and determined to help keep my community safe." Nurse Daniel says, "When I was younger, my teacher always said that I accepted others and was a kind and caring friend.

This made me want to contribute to the community and help others.

I now help children feel better when they're sick." Nina says, "I work at a supermarket and my local community are always so kind to me.

This makes me feel happy to go to work, where I can contribute by making sure that everyone can buy the things that they need." Let's do a check for understanding to see how you're doing.

This time, I'd like you to decide if the statement is true or false.

People will contribute more to their community if they feel happy.

What do you think? Is this true or false? Pause the video, tell the person next to you, tell me, or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you said that this is true.

It is true that people will contribute more to their community if they feel happy.

Well done if you said the same thing.

We are now moving on to our first practice task, and well done for your hard work and focus so far.

For this task, I'd like you to tell your partner two reasons why we should accept and celebrate each other's differences.

Pause the video and we'll go through a model answer in a few minutes.

Okay, let's see what you might have said.

You might have said that when we accept and celebrate people for who they are, they can feel happy to be themselves.

You might have also said that celebrating each other makes us feel happier.

If people feel happy, they're more likely to contribute more to their communities.

These are just two of the reasons why we should accept and celebrate each other's differences.

Well done if you had this or if you had something similar.

We're now moving on to our second learning cycle.

Well done for your hard work so far.

This learning cycle is called How can we accept and celebrate each other? There are many things that we can do to accept and celebrate each other's differences.

First of all, we can use kind words to show that we accept someone for their differences.

And kind words can look a little bit like this.

We might say something like: "Wow, I've never tried that before, but it sounds fun," "You are so good at.

.", "I really like your.

.", and, "Your family sounds so interesting!" These are just some examples of what kind words can look like to help us to accept and celebrate each other.

Let's do a check for understanding to see how you are doing.

Which of these examples shows someone using kind words? Toby says, "Your food looks weird.

Why would you eat that?" Nyenne says, "Your food looks delicious.

What are you eating?" Which of those examples shows someone using kind words? Pause the video, tell the person next to you, or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you said that Nyenne's example shows someone using kind words.

By saying, "Your food looks delicious.

What are you eating?", this is a really kind thing to say, and it shows respectful curiosity too.

Well done if you said the same thing.

We can also cheer each other on as another way to accept and celebrate each other.

This means that we celebrate when someone's done well, even if it's different from what we're good at.

Andeep says, "My friend is really good at singing.

When they sing in the assembly, I clap and tell them how well they've done." And Aisha says, "I'm not very good at scoring in football, but when my friend scores a goal, I cheer for them and say, 'Well done.

'" We can also ask people questions and listen carefully to what they say.

This shows others that we are interested in them, even though they're different to us.

It also helps people to feel included and important when we ask someone questions and we listen carefully for the answer.

We could ask people these questions to help accept and celebrate them.

We could ask something like: What do you enjoy doing? What's your favorite food at home? Do you celebrate any special traditions or holidays? Can you teach me something that you know how to do? All of these are respectful questions that we can ask to help accept and celebrate each other.

Let's move on to another check for understanding.

This time, I'd like you to answer the question, what questions could we ask to help people feel included and important? A, what's your favorite game to play? B, why do you look different to us? Or C, what do your family like doing on the weekend? Which of those questions could we ask to help people feel included and important? Pause the video, tell the person next to you, tell me, or have a think to yourself.

Well done if you said that A and C are correct.

Some respectful questions that we could ask to help someone feel included and important are what's your favorite game to play and what do your family like doing on the weekend? Well done if you said the same thing.

Ms. Walsh says that some people think tolerating people for their differences is enough, and this isn't true.

Tolerating means putting up with something, even when we don't like it, which doesn't make people feel welcome or special.

Ms. Walsh says that instead of tolerating each other, we should accept each other.

Acceptance means being kind and happy about people's differences and knowing that this is a good thing.

It helps us to celebrate what makes each person special.

When we accept and celebrate each other's differences, it keeps everyone feeling safe and stops people from being unkind or hurting each other.

Ms. Walsh says that when we see all the wonderful things that make each other different and special, it stops unkind feelings like hate and helps us to form friendships instead.

It's now time to move on to our final practice task, and well done for all your hard work in this lesson.

For this task, I'd like you to create a mind map of the different ways that we can accept and celebrate each other.

Pause the video and we'll go through a model answer in a few minutes.

Okay, let's see what your completed mind map could look like.

How can we accept and celebrate each other? You might have said that we can cheer each other on to celebrate the things that they do well.

You might have said that we can ask people questions and listen to their answers carefully and respectfully to make them feel included and important.

And you might have said that we can say kind words to other people.

Well done if your mind map looked anything like this or if you had some similar ideas.

We are now going to summarize the key learning from this lesson.

In today's lesson, we've learned that we are all different and that we enjoy doing different things, that we should accept and celebrate these differences, that when we accept and celebrate people for who they are, they can feel happy to be themselves.

We've learned that people are more likely to contribute to their community when they feel happy and are celebrated for being themselves, and we've learned that to show that we accept and celebrate each other's differences, we can say kind words to other people, cheer other people on, and ask them respectful and curious questions about themselves.

Well done for your brilliant hard work in today's lesson.

I'm so proud of you, and I hope to see you again soon.