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We dedicated one of our PBLs to the School of Sanctuary. Each group picked a subject and their goal was to create a project to make the classroom, school, town etc a more safe and welcoming place for everyone. Some examples include the English room writing poetry about welcoming new students using multiple languages, maths looked at statistics of immigration in Balbriggan, geography looked at what made some popular cities feel so for tourists, the music room wrote songs, we had a clean up crew go to the beach to back it more welcoming for all.

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Karen came to visit our school to speak to the student council and TY students about becoming a School of Sanctuary. We signed the pledge and handed it over to begin our journey.

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We share all the great events and activities our school participates in via on instagram. We include a brief description of what is going on and some pictures of staff and students participating.

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Each year group has completed the relationship keeper training with Michelle Stowes online platform. In this programme students learn how to build positive relationships with peers and staff. In this training we learn to accept each other for who we are, to respect each others differences and consider another persons perspective.

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We are learner-centred, equality based, coeducational and run democratically. This means that all members of the school community, whatever their social, cultural, belief or background, work together in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.

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We conducted a survey to find out how many languages we speak in our school!

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After our relationship keeper training, ethical education classes in each year group learned about the School of Sanctuary. A PowerPoint was shared with teachers with information on how to become a school of sanctuary and why it is important for our school. Students were asked to discuss possible ideas for their learn, action and share

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Bremore celebrates intercultural day every year and hosts a variety of events. It is always a great success, brings fantastic experiences right to the students and gives everyone the opportunity to celebrate their culture

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Class Jupiter created a playlist for intercultural day.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UfZgBch4IULaOuH9HGiXj?si=V61YqkF6RTCGx5tXtCrYIQ&pt=8d5041359abd097b4899d33d0654a53b

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Class Griffon hosted an art competition for diversity and culture

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Thursday 16th March 2023 was Bremore ETSS’ annual Intercultural Day. This is a special day in the school where we celebrate cultural diversity in the school community, and everyone’s rich national heritage.

There were plenty of events and activities on throughout the school, including traditional music and dance, students and staff bringing in food from all over the world, and students and staff showing off their national dress.

Class Griffon in Third Year ran an art competition with the theme of diversity. We collected many beautiful posters from students, and covered an entire noticeboard with art celebrating all the cultures in our school community.

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On March 22nd Kudun visited our school to share his story with the student council and senior prefects. He met the student council who reported back to their classes in ethical education about the experience. They wrote up reports.

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Guest Speaker report by Yan, 1st Year class Falcon

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Guest Speaker report by Yan, 1st Year class Falcon

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All JC ethical education classes learned about respect. They had information and discussions and what respect is and what it means to respecting others.

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We wore red for anti racism month. Show racism the red card!

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We had a whole school lesson for anti bullying week. We looked at what bullying is and why it’s wrong. We had open discussions and scenarios of different types of bullying and what actions we should take.

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We had many activities for autism acceptance month, including random act of kindness and individual day. Students were encouraged to spread kindness on April 18th, this could be a kind word or note or helping someone. On April 20th it was be an individual day, students were encouraged to wear funky socks or do up their hair in an usual way.

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Teachers were made aware of the following website https://ppli.ie/
to access resource for many different languages for teaching and learning. Some resources we used includes the activities for MFL classes, like the game box resource.

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We conducted a whole school survey to see how many languages we speak in our school.

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The school library have asked for feedback from each department and have used our research on languages spoken on our school to help create a list of books to buy. Students will have access to a more diverse and inclusive library.

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We shared the beginning of our story to become a school of sanctuary on our instagram. We had photos our our prefects and student council signing the pledge and handing it over to the School of Sanctuary CoOrdinator, Karen.

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We are connecting with Scoil Choramic (Primary School) and Balbriggan Community Childcare (Play School) to share our ethos of welcoming and celebrate diversity, education and student voice. Scoil Choramic will visit our intercultural day and our student council will visit them to share our School of Sanctuary Journey so far. Our students will also visit Balbriggan Community Childcare to promote literacy, art and speak about welcoming others and how we should treat one another.

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Emma, a teacher from Bremore is organising a school trip to South Africa to teach literacy and help build a school in 2024. As a school we have been holding many events to fundraise for this trip. We have been connecting and reaching out to our community to help fundraise also.

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We had a drumming workshop in the lead up to intercultural day with class Venus!

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As a school we participate in stand up week. We hold many events throughout the week to help spread the message of inclusion and acceptance.

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Connecting to our community to help fundraise 

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Connecting to our community to help fundraise 

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We asked local businesses such as Tesco and super valu if we could bagpack to help raise funds for our trip to South Africa.

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Another fundraiser event for our trip to South Africa includes our talent show. We had so many unique talents to show.

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Class Everest wanted to connect with the community and do some good for our local area. They decided to do a beach clean up and spoke with locals about our school and what we are up to. They reflect our school values and made an impression on our community.

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Bremore ETSS featured in the School of Sanctuary Newsletter

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We are working on a team of students that speak different languages to connect with each other and they will be part of our welcoming new students who speak the same language.

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We are encouraging parental involvement in school life. We plan to continue hosting events that parents can attend, such as our musical, talent show, TY showcase and more.

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Some students from Griffon visited Scoil Chormaic on Friday, 28th April. They went to speak about what we have been doing to become a School of Sanctuary. They also did an individuality workshop with them which included creating puppets of themselves and some drama games.

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We plan to celebrate this every year after the success in 2023.

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We check in and keep all staff up to date about our School of Sanctuary journey at our staff meetings.

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We created an Anti Racism policy for our School. As part of this we also shared an anti racism lesson to be used in Eth Ed across all year groups in the school.

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As a school we received our yellow flag award. The yellow flag team has a large crossover with the School of Sanctuary team and we often collaborate as many of the Yellow Flag goals and ideals align with the School of Sanctuary.

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Some posters and displays around our school community to promote diversity and inclusion

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Various activities as part of Arts Week and L2LP celebrating culture in our school

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Our 3rd year students went with their teacher Tessa to learn about the United Nations International day for the eradication of poverty.  They presented on food poverty as well as learning about the affects of food poverty in the community!

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We celebrate this by participating in Wear Red Day and sharing a whole school lesson on Anti Racism 

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This October, the 5th year History class are looking at Racism in history and the impact it has had one society as we know it today.

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From Friday 6th October 2023, we welcome visitors from Denmark to our school as part of Erasmus this year. There are a variety of activities taking place during their visit. 

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We were delighted to host a Serbian delegation study visit to Ireland.
They met with our students council, our Student Voice Development Team and with students who have Serbian heritage. It was a great opportunity to share practice, such our presentation - What an Inclusive school looks like?
"Free to speak, Safe to Learn"