Welcome to Year 5

                               

          Truth class                   Jemison class            Ginsburg class

Year 5 class names were voted for by the children and were chosen from famous people that have had an impact on gender equality.

Mae Jemison is the first African American woman in Space who had to overcome racial and gender prejudice to join NASA. From a disadvantaged background in Chicago, she was ambitious and resilient to be an astronaut. She is a qualified doctor who has used her name, experience and platform to give back and create opportunities for all genders and races to develop their goals within the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) industry.

Sojourner Truth is a formerly enslaved woman. Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for her work in advancing gender equality and civil liberties. Ginsburg's legal career began with her work at the ACLU, where she successfully argued six landmark cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court. Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993, she became a pioneering advocate for women's rights and social justice. Her legacy includes her influential dissents and her role as a cultural icon in the fight for equal rights.

 

We are currently starting to adopt our new GLF Wider Curriculum and are excited to share some of our learning pictures with you all soon.  Please see the questions we have been learning about so far.