Before our students headed off for the summer break, we had a wonderful week celebrating Refugee Week alongside our staff, students, and the wider St Helens community, including a special visit from the Mayor of St Helens.

This year’s theme is ‘Community as a Superpower’. Communities bring people together, bridging divides and offering support. They are spaces of resilience and healing. It’s amazing what we can do when we move toward a shared goal. Let’s rediscover our collective strength by celebrating and practising it every day.

To help celebrate the week we came together for an afternoon of fun to celebrate culture and diversity in St Helens.

It was great to see lots of smiling faces, as the students made new friends, danced to traditional music, enjoyed cuisines from around the world, and shared stories and parts of their culture.

As part of our week of Celebrations, we asked Karen, Brian, Mikey and Nada, “What does community mean to you?”

Community is a powerful reminder of the strength, healing and belonging that we can find together.