What Makes Our Students Special? ' Our Community is our Village and our Diversity is our Strength'. We are proud of the fact that we have around 50 nationalities represented in our school. Even so, each one of us is still 99.9% genetically identical to everyone else. But, it’s the 0.1% that provides for the beautiful diversity in our world. There is a great deal of research that shows that babies and young children do not see differences. It is as we get older that we tend to separate ourselves in to groupings based around artificial notions such as race, color and faith. We are not born with these tendencies; we acquire them. As an international school, we are uniquely placed to help our young students see past these artificial barriers that society tends to create. Although we are one race, the 0.1% variation is vital. One of the things that has made the human race so successful is its diversity a...