ESTHER Hyman, the sister of a woman killed in the July 7 London bombings, is determined she will bring different communities together to try to prevent another atrocity.

Miss Hyman, 41, from Oxford, is working with the school she and sister Miriam attended on a programme to keep pupils from falling into the hands of extremists.

That, the Cowley Road resident believes, would be a fitting memorial to her sister.

Miriam, 32, was killed when one of the suicide bombers blew himself up on a bus in Tavistock Square in 2005.

The scheme would develop citizenship lessons with the aim of building bridges between different communities, Miss Hyman said.

And she and her family would like to then roll it out to every secondary school in the UK.

She said: “We started to think about what had led to 7/7 and tried to get our heads around why Mim had died.

“Education has a massive role to play in making people feel part of society and this is being developed to tackle extremism and show what different communities have in common to minimise the chance of an event like 7/7 happening.

“The idea is to approach the ideas of global citizenship and social cohesion through Mim’s memory. We feel we can’t rest until we have done her justice.”

The citizenship lessons are being developed at Copthall School, in Mill Hill, North London.

The school is now developing lesson plans to deliver to Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 pupils after December. Pupils will study the lives of people in Bhubaneswar, India, to show people have the same hopes and needs regardless of culture.

The Miriam Hyman Children’s Eye Care Centre was opened in the region in 2008.

Miss Hyman, whose mother is Indian, said she visited Manzil Way mosque a month after the 7/7 attacks to prove the bombings would not set communities against each other.

She said: “My overall feeling is not of anger or bitterness but one of gloom at our unending capacity to set ourselves against one another.

“I went to the mosque and introduced myself and explained my connection to the events to extend the hand of friendship and make sure they knew I didn’t blame them for the extreme actions of the few.

“Some people are attempting to drive as big a wedge as possible between communities and I’m determined to try and not let that happen.”

Miss Hyman, who will attend the seven-month-long inquest into the 7/7 attacks in January, is also working with teachers at the school to put the citizenship classes on a website, so they are accessible to anyone in the English-speaking world.