Posts by Linette Blackmore

Learning about equality The children have been learning about equality, fairness, diversity and tolerance. They’ve been learning about inspirational people who have made a difference in the world including: Nelson Mandela, Emmeline Pankhurst, Martin Luther King and Malala Yousafzai. The focus is on making links with our own lives in terms of mission; to be…

In celebration of Black History Month, the children at St Francis de Sales researched key figures of black British history. In DT each class created a monument to their key figure: Race to the Frozen North Year 6: The written task was based on “Race to the Frozen North, the Matthew Henson Story” by Catherine Johnson…

World Afro Hair Day World Afro Day is a global day of change, education and celebration of Afro hair; endorsed by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human rights. The children watched the Big Hair Assembly at 1.30pm on Wednesday 15th September. This was also the 5th anniversary of World Afro Day. The…

St Vincent’s Primary School in Ealing has been doing a lot of work on racial justice and exploring the theme: ‘Made in the image and likeness of God’. Click on the link to see pupils’ artwork and videos about the topic. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1051jT8O3uhCLaeAQ4PMo3lpWL2OOtPXCWIcIalOs5p0/edit#slide=id.p  

At Saint Christina’s we were inspired by, and have been very keen to support the ‘Eyes On You’ Campaign that CAFOD have been running to coincide with COP26. We decided that we would like to send a digital ‘letter’ from the children to world leaders to express our thoughts and see if we could elicit…