Belonging Week
Belonging Week 2025
Belonging Week 2025: Celebrating Identity and Growth at Park View Primary
This year at Park View Primary School, we proudly celebrated Belonging Week under the inspiring theme: “Don’t be afraid to be you!” It was a joyful and reflective time for our school community, as we came together to honour individuality and inclusivity.
School Motto and Values
As part of the week’s activities, we took the opportunity to revisit our school’s values and motto—foundations that have guided us since Park View became a primary school in 2018. Over the past seven years, our school has grown and evolved in many ways, and we felt it was the right moment to ensure our core messages truly reflect who we are today.
Throughout the week, we invited pupils, parents, and staff to share their voices and ideas. Their thoughtful contributions are helping us shape a refreshed school motto and updated values that capture the spirit of Park View Primary in 2025.
We’re excited to share these with our school community very soon—watch this space!
Here are some examples of work done in class around school values and ideas for a new school motto.
Pyramid of School Values
Turquoise Class - School Motto Suggestion
It's Okay to Be Different
Our youngest learners in Year R and Key Stage 1 embraced the message wholeheartedly through the vibrant and inclusive book It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr. Inspired by its colourful illustrations and positive message, the children created their own class books in a similar style, proudly showcasing what makes each of them unique.
These creative projects sparked meaningful conversations about individuality and acceptance, helping our pupils celebrate the wonderful ways in which they are different from one another.
We’re delighted to share some of their joyful reflections with you — we hope they inspire you as much as they inspired us.
Year R Book
Year 1 Book
Year 2 Book
Belonging Week: Celebrating What Makes Us Unique!
During this year’s Belonging Week, our school community came together once again to create self-portraits — and what a colourful celebration it was! The theme this year was “Don’t be afraid to be YOU!”
Children and adults across the school proudly drew portraits that reflected their interests, hobbies, and the things that make them happy. From football and painting to reading and dancing, every portrait was a joyful reminder that we’re all different — and that’s something to be proud of!
The message we shared was simple but powerful: it’s okay to like different things, and we should always respect and celebrate each other’s uniqueness.
Here are some of our portraits
Belonging Week 2024
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Building a greater sense of belonging is a key part of our equality and diversity work at Park View.
'Belonging' is that sense of being somewhere, where you can be confident that you will fit in and be safe in your identity: a feeling of being at home in a place.
During this week, we really explored what ‘Belonging’ means. We learnt about the diversity of our school community and had opportunities to share and talk about our own identities. We celebrated the different cultures in our community and championed the importance of learning British Sign Language at Park View.
We started 'Belonging Week' with an assembly about identity. These presentations were shared...
Our Self Portraits
Every child, from Nursery to Year 6, created their own self portrait in the style of one of the artists. To celebrate us all belonging to Park View Primary we displayed every portrait in the KS1 and KS2 halls. Parents were invited into school to help their children find their portrait and enjoy the wonderful artwork.
We dressed to show our identity and belonging.
To enhance 'Belonging Week', children came to school wearing clothes to represent their sense of belonging. The clothes could represent their culture and could be part of their national dress. The children could also wear uniform or kit to represent clubs they belong to such as Brownies and Cubs, or a sports club. Some children were just happy wearing their school uniform to show their sense of belonging to Park View Primary School.
British Sign Language (BSL)
As a school with a Resourced Provision for Deaf Children, we have several pupils who use BSL as a primary form of communication and BSL is a regular feature of school life. Daily, we experience first hand the value BSL offers, not only to the children from the resource provision but the majority of our students.
