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[email protected] Sept 2013 No 65 Prince Henry’s secures top award Otley’s secondary school is first in England to achieve accolade Students and staff at Prince Henry’s Grammar School moving beyond racism to address other forms of are celebrating the news that they have been prejudice. Assistant Headteacher Chris Lillington awarded the top level of the Stephen Lawrence explains: “Since becoming a Specialist Language Education Standard once again, recognising the College in 1999 we have worked hard to embed a school’s beacon status for celebrating diversity and global ethos throughout the curriculum, and have promoting equality. established a dozen partnerships with schools from around the world. This means that students Prince Henry’s is the only secondary school across at Prince Henry’s have long been accustomed to the entire country to have secured “Level 3 meeting people from other countries, finding out Bronze” of the prestigious award, meaning that about other cultures and embracing different the highest level has been revalidated for a further ways of life. We have therefore built on this three years. Young people from the school’s Student strong sense of multicultural awareness to explore Diversity Forum collected the award from Lord equality issues about which people may be less Mayor Councillor Tom Murray at a special presentation open minded. Discrimination relating to gender,