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Odd Socks Day!

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Today we celebrated Down Syndrome Awareness day by donning our brightest, odd socks!

Yesterday, we watched a video that explains what Down Syndrome is and there were many really thoughtful questions raised following this.  If you want to watch the video at home, the link is below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_2rmDYfz4

We have one very special classmate that we like to celebrate on Odd Socks Day!  This year, we wrote 21 things we love about her.  Ask your child at home why we chose the number 21!

To round off what was a great day, we managed to squeeze in one final session of Curling!  This has been a real HIT with all the pupils, with grateful thanks to Charis at Ability Shetland!

Have a happy weekend everyone!

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Down Syndrome Awareness Day

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Dunrossness Primary School was decorated with odd socks this week ready for Down Syndrome Awareness Day!  Many pairs of odd socks, odd shoes and even bare feet were seen today!

We prepared a card and poem for one of our classmates to let her know how lucky we are to have her in our class.  We also learned to sign, ‘If classmates were flowers, we’d pick you!’

We watched a PowerPoint about Down Syndrome and did some activities that helped us realise we are more the same than different.

Finding classmates with the same interests as us.

We learned a lot of facts about Down Syndrome and many thoughtful questions were asked too.  Some we need to find out about but that’s what makes days like these so interesting for us all!  We all learn together!

We watched the song below and talked about its importance.  We decided that it shows just how many jobs a young adult with Down Syndrome can do and that everyone needs to be given a chance in all aspects of life.  We thought that this video can also link to life in school.  If one person is seen to be inclusive, that soon rubs off on all the others watching.

https://youtu.be/SKku4RAWa4M?si=JcnvIcFtJfrwUG8s

We’ve had a super day!
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