BENTWORTH Primary School in White City has been taking part in a week of events to celebrate disability and difference.

The school, in Bentworth Road, wants to give pupils the chance to develop a broader understanding of society through its Celebrating Differences Week. Pupils attended talks, workshops and story-telling sessions featuring staff from Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, disabled BBC Children's TV presenter Cerrie

Burnell, and Alison Wright from Just Different, a charity that works to raise awareness of disability among children and young people.

Pupils learned that Alison Wright's disability was formed through her mother being given Thalidomide when she was pregnant.

Justin Vafadari, the school's assistant head-teacher, said: "The children were fascinated by Alison's demonstration of how she was able to do the same everyday things as able-bodied people. She just does them in a different way.

"It was quite emotional to hear how so many children and their families have been helped through some very difficult times."