The pupils of Diamond Hall Junior Academy currently have the very special job of looking after Sunderland's Tolerance Tree.
The tree is based on the Anne Frank House Saplings Project, where a limited number of horse chestnuts were saved from the original Anne Frank tree and planted in Amsterdam. The original tree was described in Anne's diary, written from The Annexe where she and her family were hiding from Nazi's during World War II.
Artificial trees were created to show support for achieving greater tolerance and equality worldwide. Sunderland's tree is one of the artificial versions and, to show our support, the whole school completed a leaf sticker to be placed on the tree. The tree now stands proudly in the school reception as a symbol of tolerance.
Comments from our children include:
- Have tolerance towards other people, no matter who they are.
- Tolerance is respecting people’s ages, gender, race, opinions and colour of their skin and liking people for who they are.
- You can’t force someone to be someone or do something they don’t like.
- I listen to other people talking even if I don’t find it interesting.
- I care about everyone, no matter what.