Ms Amanda McNamee:

We put much energy into encouraging children to understand how they can respectfully speak about their differences. Many adults in our world struggle with that and we, therefore, try to teach ways of listening to somebody else's perspective and giving a point of view back but not falling out because there is a difference. People should certainly not take up arms or hurt somebody because there is a difference. Much of that is about teaching the skills of how to be proud but not fearing somebody else having a different opinion. As principal, I lead by example. I often tell the children about my family, which is integrated, and staff in the school see this as a vocation. We feel we have been drawn to working in an integrated school and we strongly believe there is a passionate peace element to working in integrated education in Belfast.