Inclusion project at De La Salle Waterford a success

As a very large school in an urban area with a very diverse student group, De La Salle College, Waterford, recently started on a journey to recognise this diversity. In doing so we have formed an inclusion working group made up of staff and students from different ethnic, religious, gender and other backgrounds.

We were delighted to welcome a person from Palestine onto our staff in August. We have commenced the project by putting the flags of the nationalities up in the school. To date we have 43 flags including one to recognise the LGBT+ people who are part of our school community and one for Irish Travellers. We hope to turn our A corridor into a school inclusion corridor which will showcase difference in the college.

As part of our efforts we have also embarked on a school development project under the direction of Forbairt to guide us on this journey. We are also delighted to announce that we have allocated one of our recent leadership posts to the area of ethos. The person in this post has a proud tradition in the college and on the Lasallian animator team in the college.

We have also commissioned a Le Chéile flag. Wouldn’t a Lasallian flag be nice?