Barry pupils raise awareness ahead of Race Equality Week

AHEAD of Race Equality Week 2025, the anti-racism charity Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) recently visited a Barry and Cardiff school as part of their Leaders of Now scheme.

The aim of Race Equality Week is to bring together hundreds of thousands of people and organisations throughout the UK to address workplace racial disparity and come up with practical solutions.

All Saints Church in Wales Primary School in the Vale of Glamorgan and Fairwater Primary School in Cardiff were chosen to participate.

Under this year’s theme of #EveryActionCounts it aims to unite thousands of organisations in action to seriously address race inequality in the workplace.

Ahead of this week, SRtRC visited All Saints Church in Wales Primary School.

The school selected pupils to form an anti-racism action group. The group worked with SRtRC staff to examine what they thought anti racism should look like in their school, the good practice going on already in school and what they would aim to complete over the project period and longer term following from SRtRC engagement.

Over a ten-week period, the group undertook a variety of activities, largely self-initiated with both school and SRtRC staff facilitating.

The school, agreed a name for the group, created a mission statement and logo, conducted a whole school survey to audit how anti racism was reflected in the resources and created questions to ask staff and students about their understanding and thoughts about anti-racism.

At the end of the project, the group completed a presentation to the school community comprising of pupils, parents, teachers and governors on what the group has been working on and the future plans.

A spokesperson for SRtRC said: This year, the SRtRC Wales team ran our first pilot of a young anti-racist ambassador’s project targeted at primary school pupils. The trial followed the very successful Leaders of Now Ambassadors project that has been undertaken for the last 3 years in North Wales with secondary students.

The pilot was designed to work with two primary schools across different local authorities.

The schools were selected based on their interest in further developing an anti-racism culture within their settings.”

George Ashworth, Deputy Headteacher at All Saints CiW Primary School said: “The All Saints CiW Primary School Red to Racism Group delivered a magnificent presentation to members of the Vale of Glamorgan’s Community Cohesion Group.

“Representatives from the school’s governing body and Show Racism the Red Card also attended to hear the children present on how the school is raising the profile of the Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan, how they are gaining a deeper understanding of cynefin, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and how these important topics are being taught in school, driven by pupil voice.

“The children are eager to present again in the future and are excited to continue working towards the targets outlined in their action plan.

“Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to this brilliant event.”

Cllr Ruba Sivagnanam, Cabinet Member for Community Engagement, Equalities and Regulatory Services, said: “Race equality is everyone’s responsibility, and the Vale of Glamorgan Council is steadfast in its commitment in helping to achieve it.

“Having an equal, diverse, and inclusive Council means we can better improve employment opportunities and delivery of service for minority ethnic communities and groups.”

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