PUPILS and teachers at Albert Primary School have been supporting World Down Syndrome Day by sporting odd socks to school, to raise awareness of the disorder.
Wednesday, March 21 saw the school gather together for a special assembly to celebrate the occasion, as well as examining this year's global theme of World Down Syndrome Day – 'What I Bring to my Community'.
The issue highlights how people with Down syndrome should be given opportunities to contribute to their communities and live valued lives, on a full and equal basis with others.
Children in the assembly were asked to hold up one of their legs to show their different socks off, based around the theme that people, like socks, are all different and yet the same.
Concluding the assembly, the school were treated to a powerful rendition by Mrs Morgan's year one class of Christina Perri's multi-platinum selling track, 'A Thousand Years', while year six pupils on their residential week at Condover Hall in Shropshire sent in a film of themselves also 'rocking their socks'.
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