This week in Diverse Britain, Year 6 have been learning about The Mangrove 9 - they are an activist group, who used a peaceful protest to stand up for their rights after the Metropolitan Police constantly raided their restaurant and pushed its customers away. The Mangrove restaurant was set up...
For our Diverse Britain unit this half term, Year 4 have been learning all about immigration and the impact it has had. We were able to interview someone who immigrated to the UK as a child, who turned out to be Miss Flight's mum. We...
Year 3 have had a fantastic week learning all about migration and the Empire Windrush as part of their Diverse Britain learning. They read 'We Sang Across the Sea' by Benjamin Zephaniah and used inspiration from this text to create story maps about people's journeys...
Year 2 have been looking at Hackney for our Diverse Britain unit and discussing the impact of migration and immigration. We started off by looking at maps and using direction to understand the places and facilities you can find in Hackney. Then we looked at...
For diverse Britain we were learning all about Ridley Road Market. Here are some pictures of us acting out what it would be like to work and shop on Ridley Road. [gallery ids="12645,12646,12647,12648,12649"]...
In light of Holocaust Memorial Day, Year 6 took part in a live interview with Peter Lantos, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary. Peter was born in 1939 and explained what he remembered of the few years that led up to his family’s deportation to Bergen-Belsen...
Year 6 have been writing persuasive letters to Winston Churchill this week, from the perspective of Ruth Balicki, who is a character from the text they are reading in class - The Silver Sword by Ian Serallier. The Balickis are a Polish family, who had their...
This week, Year 4 started studying our role model for Diverse Britain, Steve McQueen. We re-enacted parts of his life in groups. Steve McQueen created the Year 3 project, which we looked at and recreated, and gave reasons why our Year 4 class is so...
As part of our Diverse Britain learning, we have been learning about Kelly Holmes, the Olympic Gold Medallist. This week, we looked at the Olympic values and how Kelly Holmes represented these in the Olympics. We also thought of some actions to help us remember...
Year 2 have enjoyed learning about Nadiya Hussain in their Diverse Britain lessons. They looked at who she is, what her heritage is and discussed why she is influential. Using our our influences of our heritage, year created menu that were inspired by foods from...