Black History Month The winners and runners-up of Bexley’s Black History Month school competition were announced earlier this Winner month. The judging panel, made up of members of Sydney-Rose Bexley’s BAME community network, the Council’s Samuelson BAME staff group and Cabinet Member for Year 7, Harris Communities, Cllr Alex Sawyer, were impressed Garrard Academy with the standard of the entries. Cllr Sawyer said: “I’d like to thank everyone who took the time to enter our Black History Month competition. We had a really tough time deciding on our winners. In the end it came down to the impact that they had on us. The pictures were so full of colour and the meaning of the work was immediate. The poem was well thought out and succinct.” Black History Month is chance to celebrate and promote black history, culture and heritage. It is also a chance to share information about the positive black contributions to British history. The competition asked for a story, a poem, a blog or a photo that shows what the month means to them.
Runner up Temiloluwa Oyekan Year 7, St Catherine’s RC School for Girls
Winner Tanem Seyman Year 1, Birkbeck Primary School
Runner up Zachary Mansaray Aged 41/2 years old Willow Bank Primary School
Black history means Zachary is proud. He loves Jollof rice and chicken. He is Sierra Leone and Jamaican, he has drawn a picture of himself as he is handsome and proud to be black and the skin that he’s in with his hand print.
Black History Month, What is it? A time to remember all those black heroes, Who helped paved a way for blacks for me, Who went through pain and suffering all for equality.
The lady who refused to go to the back of the bus, Labelled as the ‘Mother of Freedom Movement’, Just like King, she was from Montgomery, And helped him fight for basic human rights.
In Africa, There was Mandela, And he was like no other, Who helped fight against a thing called apartheid.
I know there is a lot of other black heroes, Unfortunately I do not have the time to write about all of them, But I hope you enjoyed this simple rhyme, Thank you and I hope you enjoy this Black History Month.
Martin Luther King, A baptist from Montgomery, He helped change civic rights, And was also the one with the dream. Rosa Parks,
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