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Wonderfully Successful Celebration of Culture and Inclusion at Millstreet Community School

We thank John Magee, Chaplain, Millstreet Community School for the following report of the wonderfully successful event:

A Celebration of Culture and Inclusion took place in Millstreet Community School on Tuesday 11th March.  It was a great success, with a number of students representing their nationality with pride.  Ireland was well represented with a traditional music group, set dancers, songs and Irish poetry.  
 
The special guest for the evening was Fahmeda Naheed. She is a School of Sanctuary Ambassador, a Community Development Officer with SECAD, and Co-Chair of the Cork Three Faiths Forum and presents and produces her own weekly programme on Cork Community Radio.  She spoke about the work she has done building bridges in different settings in Cork since she arrived from Pakistan fifteen years ago.  She expressed her appreciation for the school’s ongoing inclusive approach as a Champion School of Sanctuary.
 
We were also joined by Raphael Olympio who is the Youth Development Worker with Cork Migrant Centre.  He showed his talent as a rapper and a spoken word artist.
 
Once the entertainment was completed the audience moved to the Canteen where there was the chance to taste food from a number of different countries.  We are grateful to all the families who contributed traditional food. Special thanks go to O’Leary’s Family Butcher, Tony O’Brien’s Craft Butcher, Café Aroma, The West End Café and Cloverhill Foods who contributed generously to this part of the evening.
 
The evening was a great success.  Thanks to everyone who joined us for the evening.
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A Celebration of Culture and Inclusion

The annual Celebration of Culture and Inclusion will take place on Tuesday 11th March at 7pm in the Millstreet Community School library/canteen.  The evening will feature stories, poems, dancing, music presented by students and a chance to taste food from countries around the world. Irish traditional music, song and dance will play a prominent role in the event. As in previous years, there will be a special guest in attendance. Admission is free and all our welcome to what is a wonderful community celebration.
 
The evening forms part of the school’s Language and Culture Week, which is co-ordinated by the Transition Year Global Citizenship Education class (TY GCE), with the support of school management and staff.  Here are details of other related events planned for the run-up  and during Language and Culture Week:
1.     Groups of the TY GCE class will be engaging in peer education with younger classes on a range of topics. These include, gender equality and unconscious bias, ‘showing racism the red card’ and ‘Nora’s Case’. The latter is based around the story of the young girl in London during the Second World War who had to be evacuated to the country during the ‘blitz’ bringing just a small suitcase with her. The link is made to those who are forced to leave their homes in different countries in 2025.
2.     MCS Olympics: This involves students in every tutorial taking part in activities during their PE lessons, along with the chance to take part in a chess and draughts tournament.  They compete in teams and each team represents a nationality that is present in the school at this time. The overall winning team/country will receive medals to mark their achievement.
3.     Global Kitchen: 1st year Home Economics students will have the chance to choose and then prepare dishes of traditional food from countries represented in their class.
4.     The World in our School quiz: this is a chance for the whole school to test their knowledge about the nationalities present in the school – national flags, borders, landmarks, celebrities, traditional food will be among the topics.
5.     Art Competition:  This is open to junior classes and the theme is We Work Better Together.
6.     The 1st years will have the chance to take part in a workshop run by Sports Against Racism Ireland (SARI) called Football and Discrimination.  SARI have visited us on three previous occasions and the workshops have proved very popular.
We are grateful for the ongoing support of WorldWise Global Schools (WWGS) for their ongoing support for our school’s work in the area of global citizenship education.

Millstreet Community School – “A Celebration of Culture and Inclusion”

The Celebration of Culture and Inclusion is a chance to recognise and celebrate the different countries and cultures that are represented in our school and community.  The evening will feature song, dance, music, poetry and the chance to sample food from many different countries, including Ireland. We will be welcoming a special guest for the event, Dr Manizha Khan.  Dr Khan and her family are originally from Afghanistan.  She is a dentist by profession.  In fact, she was the dean of a dental school in the city of Herat in Afghanistan but she and her family fled to Ireland because their lives were under threat from the regime in the country. Apart from being a dentist in Cork she is also a School of Sanctuary Ambassador and we are delighted she will be able to join us.
Admission is free.  Please feel free to join us for what is sure to be a memorable night.