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Black History Month always provides an opportunity to celebrate black achievement and to reflect on issues affecting people of colour. Year 13 A Level History students have been...
Last week, I was delighted to take four of our students on one of the First World War Centenary Battlefields trips organised and led by the UCL Institute of Education. As with...
7fHi.1 are studying different types of community in medieval times in their History lessons. One community was the “tithing” which was responsible for bringing its...
The last meeting of the Debating Society this term saw the announcement of the winner of the election to become the new leader of the group. With a drum roll from those present,...
8s.Hi.1 attempted to bring the past to life in Wednesday’s History lesson by recreating the trial of Charles I in January1649. Although somewhat short of props, students quickly...
On Sunday November 4th I was privileged to travel with two of our Year 7 students – Anya and Luke to Belgium and France as part of the government sponsored First World War...
From the profound to the trivial… that just about sums up the inaugural “Festival of Humanities” which was held last week on July 2nd-4th in the quad at lunchtimes in glorious...
On the recent Enrichment Day, 11 students chose to go fishing – a first for Bushey Meads School. We struck gold in securing the generous hospitality of a local angling club...
Black History Month always provides an opportunity to celebrate black achievement and to reflect on issues affecting people of colour. Year 13 A Level History students have been focused on this for longer than one month as they study the struggle for African American civil rights as part of their A Level history course. Black History Month and the Black Lives Matter protests have certainly helped to give this a special resonance this term.
For Zeenat learning about the struggle for African Americans for equality “is extremely fitting as clearly black people are still victims of racism in the 21st century… our history course helps us in understanding how long black people have been prejudiced against” For Mahnoor the course has “increased my knowledge of the cruel treatment black people have faced”, whilst for Callum the course is “very interesting and is raising my awareness of change and struggles”, a comment echoed by Finley who is finding the course “fascinating and making me pay more attention to the Black Lives Matter Movement”.
We have currently reached the mid 1950s in our studies and students are excited about the prospect of learning more about the amazing Civil Rights Movement which burst on the scene with the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the overturning of segregation at Little Rock High School.There will be many achievements to celebrate and also issues which have a current relevance to discuss.
