{"id":2130,"date":"2022-10-11T13:32:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2022-10-11T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:32:03","slug":"black-history-month-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/?p=2130","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black History Month takes place this October. This year&#8217;s theme is \u201cTime for Change: Action Not Words&#8221;. Throughout the month Stewarton Academy will be celebrating the occasion through a variety of activities.<\/p>\n<p>So far The Equalities and LGBTQ+ group enjoyed a presentation and workshop on Black LGBTQ+ people who have influenced our current and past society. Additionally our S2 pupils have been learning about the many positive contributions made by famous black British people as part of their \u2018Ending Prejudice and Discrimination\u2019 unit in RME.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers and pupils have also been inspired to read a book by a black author from a suggested list to choose from. The link for this list is below.<\/p>\n<p>Our school community is likewise encouraged to celebrate Black History Month in many ways. Examples can include: reading a book that celebrates Black history, watching a TV series such as \u2018The Underground Railroad\u2019 on Amazon Prime or \u2018The Get Down\u2019 on Netflix, or cooking a traditional African or Caribbean meal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacademysite2016\/uploads\/sites\/4005\/2022\/10\/11132439\/Celebrating-Black-History-Month-2022-Book-List.docx\">Celebrating Black History Month 2022 Book List<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2127\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/?attachment_id=2127\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacademysite2016\/uploads\/sites\/4005\/2022\/10\/11132356\/LGBT-Group-BHM.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"743,597\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1665071121&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LGBT Group BHM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacademysite2016\/uploads\/sites\/4005\/2022\/10\/11132356\/LGBT-Group-BHM-300x241.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacademysite2016\/uploads\/sites\/4005\/2022\/10\/11132356\/LGBT-Group-BHM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2127\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacademysite2016\/uploads\/sites\/4005\/2022\/10\/11132356\/LGBT-Group-BHM-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacademysite2016\/uploads\/sites\/4005\/2022\/10\/11132356\/LGBT-Group-BHM-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/stewartonacademysite2016\/uploads\/sites\/4005\/2022\/10\/11132356\/LGBT-Group-BHM.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black History Month takes place this October. This year&#8217;s theme is \u201cTime for Change: Action Not Words&#8221;. Throughout the month Stewarton Academy will be celebrating the occasion through a variety of activities. So far The Equalities and LGBTQ+ group enjoyed a presentation and workshop on Black LGBTQ+ people who have influenced our current and past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/?p=2130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black History Month 2022<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/stewartonacademysite2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}