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Communities: How can we better understand and respect people with disabilities?

This unit helps pupils respect people with disabilities. Pupils explore disability concepts, experiences in modern Britain, the Equality Act 2010 and the Paralympics, developing practical skills to promote inclusive attitudes in their school and wider community.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

Prior knowledge

  • Pupils should have a basic understanding of respect and kindness in relationships from Key Stage 2, recognising that everyone is different and deserves to be treated fairly.
  • Pupils should be familiar with the concept of diversity within their primary school community and understand that treating others with dignity is important.
  • Pupils should be able to identify when someone is being unkind or excluded and recognise that discrimination is wrong, having encountered these ideas in primary education.

Source curriculum references

  • The characteristics of positive relationships of all kinds, online and offline, including romantic relationships.
  • How to evaluate their impact on other people and treat others with kindness and respect, including in public spaces and including strangers.
  • Pupils should understand the legal rights and responsibilities regarding equality, and that everyone is unique and equal.
  • Pupils should understand what it means to be treated with respect by others.
  • What tolerance requires, including the importance of tolerance of other people’s beliefs.
  • The practical steps pupils can take and skills they can develop to support respectful and kind relationships.
  • How stereotypes, in particular stereotypes based on sex, gender reassignment, race, religion, sexual orientation or disability, can cause damage
  • Pupils should be equipped to recognise misogyny and other forms of prejudice.

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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