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- Jarrow Cross C of E Primary School
Value in Everyone
Black History Month
Black History Month
October was Black History Month!
Here at Jarrow Cross, we wanted to focus on less familiar, but significant individuals. Each class was given a black individual to research and find out more about them: what they were known for; their achievements; and any challenges faced.
Once the children had spent time in class discussing, researching and exploring the impact of each person, they then created a shared class page/fact file.
Every class page was then collected in and from this, we were able to create our own non- fiction text in the style of “Young, gifted and black”.
The title for our text is Brilliant, Bold and Black.
We felt beyond inspired by the individuals we researched.
In our celebration worship, our text was shared amongst the whole school and is now on display for people to view at their leisure.
This year’s theme was ‘Before Windrush’. The rationale behind this theme was because there is a common misconception that black people only started to travel/migrate to Britain during the Windrush period. However, it is important to recognise that there were black individuals who arrived and lived in Britain much earlier.
An example of just some of these individuals we learnt about were: John Blanke, Mary Seacole and Lucius Septimius Severus.
