This term, students in Year 10 have been learning about what it means to be British. Students have been reading a range of texts which explore the experiences of black British men and women, and the prejudice encountered by those who were invited to Britain to re-build the country after the Second World War as part of ‘The Windrush Generation’.
Students were asked to research and create a presentation on a moment of significance in black history which they then delivered to the class. Many focused on Mary Seacole and her contribution to medicine and healthcare during war; the Bristol bus boycott of 1963 which pushed through legislation to make it illegal to discriminate someone due to their race and ethnicity; and Malcolm X and his famed visited to Smethwick in 1965.聽
We were incredibly proud and impressed by the hard work that our students put into this task and the inspiring, positive message that was spread through acknowledging and learning about moments in black history that have helped to shape the world we now live in, where diversity and multiculturalism is celebrated.