DJ shares his experiences

DJ is one of our fantastic Midday supervisors and today he came in a bit earlier so he could share some of his experiences with the Kingfishers and Woodpeckers.

DJ told us a story of how he had been really upset when he was 6 by some white boys who were very unkind to him and told him to go back to his own country. But this was where he had been born so this was his country! He told us how his mum and dad took him on a holiday to Jamaica to show him where his family had come from originally. DJ said the experience had helped him to become the person he is today. Rachel asked us to think about that story and then reminded us that she was not born in this country but because she is white people do not say that to her! Did we think that was fair ?

Brighton Black History

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We learnt about Georg Polgreen Bridgetower and he wos a virlin player he played for the King. by Zac, Isabel and Ellie Today we learnt about another black person who lived in Brighton a long time ago in 1790. George … Continue reading →

Portraits

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Some of us have now finished our portraits and they have been put up on the classroom wall for us all to enjoy. We looked at the portrait of Sake Dean Mohamed (Dr Brighton) and saw that artists often painted … Continue reading →

Black History Week

October is Black History Month. This week in our school we have been celebrating Black History week.

We have been looking at significant people that have made history.

Yesterday we learnt about Dr Martin Luther King Jr. What an amazing man he was. We looked at words to describe Martin Luther King. He was brave, kind, and he persevered. We learnt how he fought for equality. Equality means fairness.

We wrote our own ‘I have a dream’ speeches to make changes to the world for the good of mankind. Please come and look at our class book which has our dreams in it.

We looked at some eggs that Tracey’s chicken laid

We talked about the eggs. The children said that:

The eggs were different colours, but they were the same on the inside. If we were to cook with them it wouldn’t matter which one we would use as they are both the same on the inside. Just like people.

Today we learnt about ‘Dr Brighton’ – Sake Dean Mahoumed. He was an ambitious man. He opened the first ever Indian Restaurant in England in 1810. He then came to Brighton with his wife in 1814 and opened the first shampooing – Indian medicated shampooing bath. It was a great success and he became known as Dr Brighton and shampooing surgeon to George IV and WIlliam IV.

We looked at his portrait          and portraits of our learning partners. We were critical friends and talked about how our portraits could be improved. We are still working on our portraits to make them really great.

Please look on our website on the Year 2 page ( you will need to log on to access Year 2 pages) There is lots more inofrmation about Martin Luther King and Sake Dean Mahoumed.

In recorders today we learnt how to play C and D and composed our own music.

Have you a recorder at home? Maybe you could practice our tune. Lets perform to the whole school!