Careers week – Emmeline Pankhurst

This week for careers week we have linked our English lessons with our history topic of ‘Changing Britain’. We have investigated the life of a local hero, Emmeline Pankhurst. The children have had brilliant discussions about the impact Emmeline’s actions have had on Britain and future generations of women and men, especially in terms of careers and jobs. We came up with adjectives to describe Emmeline and held a secret vote in class. We excluded some children based on things such as wearing glasses or gender then discussed how it made us feel. We talked about protests and whether or not we felt some of the actions of the women, such as chaining themselves to railings, was the right thing to do. The children then became activists themselves and wrote rousing persuasive speeches aiming to convince people to give women the right to vote.