Exeter students create ‘Diversi-trees’ to celebrate differences

West Exe School, part of the Ted Wragg Trust, has celebrated Schools Diversity Week this term.

West Exe School’s Cultural Champions led the way in helping to design, create and sell badges to raise money for the school’s charity Exeter Food Action to help celebrate and support both diversity within their community and the wider world.

Exeter’s Devon Diversity group led several workshops for Year 7 students, helping them to understand the importance of cultural diversity.  The students showed real enthusiasm and a keen interest,  asking some really thought-provoking questions.

 As a whole school project, every student took part in sessions around LGBTQ+, cultural diversity and disabilities, acknowledging and celebrating differences and the positive impact this can have on our wider world. 

The students ended the week celebrating their own identities by creating their very own ‘Diversi-trees’ helping them to not only identify differences but celebrate them!

 Julie Fossey, Headteacher at West Exe School said:

“I am so proud of everything staff and students at West Exe have done to celebrate Schools Diversity Week.  We want every young person at our school not just to know about but to celebrate the diversity of our community and beyond.  The activities that they enjoyed this week allowed them to do just that.”

Moira Marder, CEO of the Ted Wragg Trust said:

“I was delighted to hear that West Exe put so much effort into marking Schools Diversity Week.  It sounds like they put on a brilliant range of sessions and it’s clear that these will have had huge value to students when it comes to how they think about themselves, others and society.”