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New Woodlands School was proud to celebrate in October, Black History Month 2022.

In Humanities, Mr Fernandes ran a Black History Month poster competition. The idea was to design a collage or poster on a famous black person. There were some excellent entries from both Primary and Secondary. So good, they now feature on a display wall outside Mr Fernandes’ classroom! Congratulations to Louis, Alisha, Daisie and DeJuan Richards who all received a £10 voucher.

In Food Technology, pupils over the month have made a variety of Caribbean dishes to include, Rice and peas and Jamaican Patties.

Finally, in Science, pupils worked on profiles of famous black scientists. Below is an example of these fact files by Daisie Howarth in Year 8.

Black History Month is such important month. It gives us a chance to celebrate some famous people who have worked so hard to improve the lives of others.

During Black History Month, we researched our favourite role model from past and present. We found out about the struggles black people had to overcome for equal rights such as the Civil Rights Movement as well as amazing achievements like helping NASA send spaceships into space!

We then created posters as part of our schools Black History Month competition!

In Owens class we learnt about Nana

Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah who was the Queen’s first black equerry.  This meant he was the Queen’s personal assistant.

We learnt that he is a Ghanaian born officer and a veteran of the war in

Afghanistan and Iraq.  We learnt that his job as an equerry is considered to be one of the most important roles in the royal household.

We also learnt that Ghana is a country in West Africa and found out some facts about it.

In Zephaniah class, we looked took part Halloween activities such as 3D pop-ups, character puppets and pumpkin faces.

Before Halloween, we decorated our classroom in the spookiest way, with glow in the dark bats, spider webs and witch hats.

It was spooktastic!

Have a look at our pictures!

As we encourage reading across the whole school we have found a resource we want to share with you to support home reading. Reading impacts on all aspects of the curriculum and the more opportunities to read each day will make a big difference

 

Please do have a look at the below link to support this at home and we hope you will find it useful.

 

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/bookfinder/

Year 8 went on the RAF flight simulator at the Science museum

Year 11 attended National Science Live at the Excel Centre