Fully embracing all of Eastbrook’s Autism Acceptance Week learning and celebrations, Year 1 learners further explored the concept of every individual being unique and different. Pupils could already identify obvious physical differences between them such as height and eye colour, but considered other differences which were not so obvious to see such as your favourite food or musician. Children now appreciate that everyone’s brain works differently and this is why we all learn and communicate in different ways. It is also why we are all good at different things. Year 1 children showed maturity and sensitivity when learning about how the working of an autistic person’s brain can affect their senses, how they read social situations and interact with others. To make a visual representation of our wonderful differences, Year 1 students enjoyed filling their paper minds with bright rainbow colours to show celebration and acceptance of these differences and flooded their page with all of their favourite things. Guess what? Every single mind was a different kind!