Kender Statement

At Kender we continue to be committed to stand up against all forms of racism and social injustice so we can fully achieve equality, equity and justice for the community we serve.

Change needs to happen and the Black Lives Matter movement has helped us to start a conversation and discussion on what more we can do as a school to evoke change.

Please find below further statements from Lewisham and Headteachers in the borough.

Black Lives Matter in Lewisham

A message form Pinaki Ghoshal, Lewisham’s Executive Director for Children and Young People and Angela Scattergood, Director of Education.

The Mayor of Lewisham, Damian Egan has published a statement on behalf of Lewisham Council in response to the killing of George Floyd in the United States. You can read the full statement here.

We believe that our schools and settings are key to tackling racism and other forms of discrimination. We will support all Lewisham schools and settings in their commitment to standing against racism and injustice, alongside and in solidarity with the local and global Black community.

Lewisham Headteachers’ Statement

Lewisham Leaders stand together to condemn the unlawful murder of an innocent black man George Floyd in Minneapolis .

We stand united in our commitment to tackle and challenge racism, address inequality and call out discrimination.

Black people are 40 times more likely to be stopped and searched in the UK . Young black people are nine times more likely to be locked up in England and Wales than their white counterparts, while BAME offenders are far more likely than others to be jailed for drug offences.

As educators of a school population which is 76% Black and ethnic minority we cannot remain silent.

The murder of George Floyd must prompt careful reflection about racism in Britain today, and the extent to which it shapes our values, politics and economic life.

Our community needs and deserves to feel safe in the belief that its leaders condemn all acts of racism and violence and moreover that they  believe racism is an abhorrence that we as Lewisham Leaders reject.

Lewisham Leaders have a duty to address systemic racism in our society and we uphold this in our united condemnation of the unlawful murder of an innocent black man George Floyd.