“Aston Village NS wins top award for diversity” – Drogheda Independent article
Students from Aston Village Educate Together NS together with teacher Dermot McCullen and Principal John Kelleher being presented with a Yellow Flag Award by Michael D Higgins and Diana Bunici.
By Hubert MURPHY
Wednesday June 01 2011
ASTON Village Educate Together NS has collected a top award for promoting diversity and inclusion.
The school was just one of four nationwide to be awarded a Yellow Flag for years of effort.
The flag is the initiative of the Irish Traveller Movement and was pioneered in 2008 in response to the widely acknowledged changes in the Irish education landscape over a number of years.
The Yellow Flag was seen as a practical and innovative solution in the absence of progress in the area of intercultural education at that time.
‘ We were delighted with the opportunity to participate in the Irish Traveller Movement’s Yellow Flag Programme. It has helped us as a school community to embrace our diversity, to celebrate our difference and to promote equality in all aspects of our school life,’ stated Dermot McCullen, a teacher at the school.
‘We look forward to proudly flying our new Yellow Flag over our newly extended school and we’re committed to working together toward real and meaningful inclusivity where no child is an outsider. The Irish Traveller Movement has been very supportive of our efforts and we thoroughly recommend this educational initiative to all schools’.
The Yellow Flag awards were held in the New Wood Quay venue, Dublin by former TD and Senator Michael D Higgins.
It was hosted by RTÉ 2’s elev8 presenter Diana Bunici.
At the awards, elements of their individual diversity programmes were represented through visual, musical, dance and narrative pieces by pupils from Georgia, the Roma and Traveller community, Latvia, Nigeria, Ireland, Poland and other communities.
– Hubert MURPHY
We are very excited this week about the news that in recognition of our work and efforts in relation to equality, interculturalism and diversity in our school, we are to receive our Yellow Flag from the Irish Traveller Movement! Well done everyone especially to all on the committee!
Listen to John’s interview on local radio station LMFM last week at this link:
http://utv.vo.llnwd.net/o16/LMFM/2011/05/19/may19th.mp3
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