Thank you to families who came to our community evening where we celebrated Black History Month.
Many families cooked delicious rice-based dishes based on the wonderful book ‘My Rice is Best’. Families have also been coming in during the month to read stories such as ‘So Much’ to the children. Children have loved doing role-play with dolls, cooking and doing each other’s hair. They have been drawing, painting and making portraits of themselves and their families using charcoals, water colours and even playdough. They made colourful paintings inspired by distinguished artist Frank Bowling.
“It’s mummy, rainbow, all colours.”
“I want to draw mummy. I want to put a daddy.”
“I’m painting Baba, little bit of hair.”
“I’m big ‘cos I’m the big girl.”
“My hair grows.”
“Little feet, little feet.”
“I’ve got 2 sisters, small baby sisters. We celebrate Christmas and birthdays.”
“We like eating everything. I like dumplings and sushi.”
“My favourite is rice and chicken.”
“I like cheese and pasta and my mum dad, they like beans and rice.”
“My rice is best.”
“It’s gonna have long hair. That’s me.”
“These are the eyes. This is a girl not a boy.”
“I went to Africa on the aeroplane. They can speak some French.”
