What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? It has been helpful for our 'Being happy at school' well being health check.

How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? It is enabling students to speak openly about cultural diversity and struggles and challenges faced in the world.

“Loved this lesson. Highly engaged children and it stimulated an excellent discussion about stereotyping.”

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What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? The class are now far more interested in finding out their own ancestors immigration story. Many families have been in Runanga for several generations because of the coal mining industry. We are also going to try to have other cultures represented in our

How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? More awareness of diversity and difficulties that some immigrants go through. I am an immigrant from Europe and we have a student teacher in the room from America so we could share our stories, as well as talking about refugees and language barriers.

“I work in a small West Coast school with a year 5 to 8 class of mostly NZ European and some Maori. When we played the Pictionary game it became very clear that the children didn’t have any concept of ethnic groups or even gender when it came to stereotypes. For a start they drew stick figures so no racism there! In the discussions they were genuinely surprised that I would suggest that any one ethnic group would be associated with something like unhealthy or bad driver. It was interesting that the only concept they had of muslims was as innocent victims of a horrific crime in ChCh. It was heart warming to see that they were still relatively innocent.”

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How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? the kids were asking more questions and the discussions were good. our kids are very respectful and love doing tings like this

“This was a fantastic resource. the kids were engaged and had good discussions. We had to move tings around as we began to run out of time and had a lot of interruptions this term. highly recommend it.”

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What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? We have introduced new ways of celebrating cultures in our school

How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? We are more aware of stereotypes

“There were some very good aspects to this but I found the teachers journal quiet a negative resource that could of been worded and put together in a much better way . I also adapted some of the activities as some of the White New Zealand children in the class felt very ";told off"; as one said for being who they are. There were such important points to make and conversations to have but the context /wording of some could have been looked at.”

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What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? I think there is a long way to go in our society still. We had a recent announcement of a new school name that is in te Reo Māori and there were some parents that were quite clearly racist about it. It is hard to teach some families that this isn't actual

How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? The children liked using the supplied resources.

“A great kit to get children thinking. Suitable for a little bit older than what we had. (Y2/3)”

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What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? Our school value for the term was diversity and it tied in beautifully with that. We continued on with exploring and highlighting our cultures. We had a two week homework project based around ";No New Zealander has timid ancestors"; where parents were int

How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? It continued the celebration of our cultures and raised the importance of diversity. It tied in with our inquiry into climate refugees and the importance of maintaining culture and also refugees and the challenges they face. We talked about the importance

“The value of this unit was in how it made you reflect on the fact that all of us came to New Zealand as immigrants, for a wide range of reasons but mostly seeking a better life. Whether that was this year or many generations ago. It highlights what we have in common and the importance of celebrating our diversity.”

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What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? Enabled students to think about where we are as a class and make some goals

How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? Wouldn't say it changed the environment. It did get students thinking about how we perceive types of people

“Loved the clear instructions on how to use the resource. As a teacher I think I really benefited from the resource and was able to challenge my own thinking. I have a year 5&;6 class and I think some of the thinking and the activities went over there head and they lost the whole understanding of the resource.”

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What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? We haven't gotten as far as setting up an action plan yet.

How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? I am beginning to see and hear some more respectful conversations but there is a long way to go. Hoping that the continuation of this kit will improve the situation some more next term. Will add photos of 'so far' on FB later.

“Great resource. I took over a new class so some of the activities helped us in getting to know each other. The class have a lot to learn about respect in general and treating other people in their class with kindness. They also don't speak well of themselves so we didn't get it all finished and will be continuing with some of this in Term 4”

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