Show Racism the Read Card held special assemblies for pupils led by Derek Ferguson and Chris Priestly on Monday, 13th January 2020.
Show Racism the Red Card is the UK’s largest anti-racism educational charity. It uses football and football players to help tackle racism and delivers educational workshops in schools, workplaces and at events held in football stadiums.
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) is marked each year on 27 January and we remember the six million Jewish people systematically persecuted and murdered during the Holocaust and those who have faced persecution and death since then.
The theme this year was How Can Life Go On? This theme asks us all think about how people who have experienced the horror of genocide can start to rebuild their lives.
Calderhead High School marked HMD this week with assemblies for all pupils led by S6 pupils, Jamie Shaw and Chloe Jarvis. James and Chloe visited Auschwitz in September 2016.
Pupils enjoyed special assemblies with Claudius England from Jamaica who used music and story telling as a mean of tellling the history of Jamaica, from slavery to present day.
Claudius also talked about ‘Reclaimed Territory’, an initiative he started in Jamaica working in youth detention centres. This year it is extended to Scotland where Claudius will be visiting most of the prisons in Scotland.
Claudius has been touring a number of local schools and visited Calderhead-Erskine Parish on Saturday night (10th September).
