Black History Month in Year 4

 All through October, Year 4 have been doing a range of activities to celebrate Black History Month. We've been listening to a range of music from the last 300 years from various black artists during our coming in times. The top shelf of our library corner has all had books all relating to black history and  black authors. 

We've also been learning about a range of different figures from history and modern influential people today during our reading comprehensions. We've read about Ignatis Sancho, Queen Nzinga, Malorie Blackman, Mo Farah and Katherine Johnson. Each student choose one of these people to research so that they coud write a biography on their choosen person this week. 

These aren't the only people we've looked at. We've particularly focused on the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. We created art works insired by his very unique and emotive artworks. We listened to music to colour our backgrounds as Basquiat was very inspired by the music he listened to. We read the 'Little People, Big Dreams' book about the artist and wrote summarys of his life. Florence wrote an excellent summary and will be reading it out in Celebration Assembly this week, along with students from other year groups, to share with others what we have been learning. 

"Ignatius Sancho was the first African person to vote in the English election."

"I think his art is strange, but I enjoyed making pictres lie his."