Friday, 17 March 2017
Thursday, 16 March 2017
Is Religious Discrimination a Problem in Schools?
Is Religious Discrimination a Problem in Schools?
Hang on, what's that?
Well, religion-based discrimination is treating a person or
group differently due to what they follow, such as the way their pray. It is
happening around the world .Religion such as Islam, Judaism and Christianity
are being targeted for their belief. The (American) Civil Rights act of 1964 states
that religions discrimination is illegal and count as harassment.
When I think of that phrase (religion-based discrimination),
I first think of the terrible suggestions of all Muslims are terrorist which is
wrong .It had started at on the 11th of September in 2001, where a
deadly attack on the ‘Twin Towers’ tragically killed just under 3000 people . I believe that after 9/11,
Islamophobia has increased extensively as people believe Islamic ideology is
violent. Therefore people have petitioned for “anti-Islamic” places – so-called
Islamic State group has made the public aware of this. By doing horrendous
attack, everyone and including actual Muslims believe this is not right at all,
as the Quran says if you kill any innocent people, you shall pay for your sins
in afterlife. This phrase from the Quran shows people like Isis are not Muslims
as they are disobeying the rule.
Judaism is known as a religion that suffered terribly in World
War 2. It had happened before the laws of religion-based discrimination were
introduced .In world war 2, Jews were called “filthy” and other upsetting
words, just because their way of life. German think they caused World War I as
that killed over one-hundred-thousand
German soldiers. Well, the German’s viewpoint was they had a different religion and not following with the Germans or was due
for someone killed. Jewish people had to wear yellow stars and made to go to
concentration camps. There are still some people nowadays who do not like Jews.
But what does all of this history have to do with students
at Bluecoat Academy? Well, this is a truly mixed race and background academy,
with ‘minority’ groups making up the majority of the students! In a time where
we are considering how to best support refugees in education, religious
discrimination is a topic that is hot on everyone’s mind.
Students at Bluecoat Academy consider why we find it so hard
to live in peace in the following video.
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Ms Rutherford
No home, no love?
No home, no love?
Homelessness is very
common around the UK. There are approximately 3.5 million people without a home and most of them
are hidden homelessness. For example people pretend to be homeless when they are not and they stay in hostels, squats, B&B
Accommodations or stay with friends or family.
Charities like Emmanuel House in
Oxford take up to 60-90 visitors every single day. Over 2000 people come to
Emmanuel house and over 200 new visitors each year.
Charities help over 150,000 young
children as well as adults over England and wales approached authorities for
help because they are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
The average age of a homeless person
is as young as 9 years old to the age of 35.
We went around our school asking
people for their personal opinions about Homelessness
First up is Arron: He said that he
doesn’t really like seeing homeless people sufferer and that he would rather
give people food instead of money. The reason for this is because Arron doesn’t
want them to buy drugs, cigarettes, and things that might put their life in
danger.
Next we interviewed our teacher Mrs
Freshwater: Her opinion on the topic is that it is a big problem especially in
the UK. Also she doesn’t think that people are faking it and pretending that
their poor and that they
Thirdly we interviewed Allen and
Amelia there point of view was that everyone deserves to have the right to have
a house to be clean have food and water it’s a simple right that everyone
should have and that when they walk past a homeless person they feels like giving them money to have a
brighter future.
It is clear that students at Bluecoat Academy care deeply about the state of homelessness, and consider it a joy to help homeless charities on their regular "Charity Wednesday" fundraisers.
Report written by Alex and Sophie
Can Learning Be Fun?
Can Learning
Be Fun?
We all know
that learning is important, without it no one would get anywhere in life and
our world would not be as successful as it is now, however people have
different opinions about how and when we learn.
Recently, Ofsted
have called the idea of ‘learning styles’ a “neuromyth” and they believe that
everyone could learn with the same method but we believe that is not the right
path to take.
We found it
interesting to go around asking people for their opinion on the topic.
One Year 8
boy said, “I think we need to level the fun and learning so that pupils can
concentrate.”
Through
these interviews we discovered that although people might be able to learn in
the same way, people enjoyed different things. As enjoyment is important in the
learning process, it seems there is still a place for different learning styles
in school.
Written by
Arwa
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