At Waldegrave we have delivered an important assembly to all year groups which included learning and celebrating the achievements of some exceptional Black women both from the past and in the present who have carved their paths to achieve successfully in their various fields despite facing many challenges and prejudices along their personal journeys. As part of both the assembly and our tutor time activities we have asked students to embrace a reading challenge which provided a link to 100 books
by Black female authors and a link to the Black History Month national poetry competition. Waldegrave school has chosen to run the same poetry competition and hopefully we will be able to share some contributions from our students. Some of our Year 11 students reflected on the assembly, sharing their thoughts with us: “An empowering assembly that showed the importance of Black History” - Molly and Alie “The assembly was very educational and I felt the reading lists and videos shared gave me an opportunity to learn and grow” - Eleri “Focusing on Black women in the assembly makes us recognise and celebrate the diversity in our own school community” - Nehir
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