Windrush Day

From Windrush Day

Resource type: Event

Price band: Free

Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5, EYFS

Region(s): All of UK

Windrush Day is celebrated on the 22nd June, the day that the HMT Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in 1948. On board were over 800 passengers from the Caribbean who came to help rebuild Britain after WWII, working in the transport system, factories and the newly-created NHS.

Windrush Day has been celebrated since 2018. It provides an opportunity to both celebrate the contribution made by the Windrush Generation and their descendants to British society and culture and to reflect on the difficulties and hardships many of them have faced.

Cost: Free

About Windrush Day: Windrush Day was first celebrated in 2018. It honours the contribution made by the Windrush Generation and the hardships that many of them have endured.

Further resources:

  • The Windrush Programme from Seven Stories: the National Centre for Children’s Books provides learning activities and discussion questions based on the archives of four critically-acclaimed children’s writers who grew up in the Caribbean but have lived and worked in Britain since the 1970s. The resource pack is aimed at UKS2 and KS3 pupils and is designed to explore themes of migration and settlement and to inspire all young people to see themselves as possible writers and illustrators of the future. There is also a booklist with suggested titles for all ages.
  • Download a whole school English plan based on Coming to England by Floella Benjamin from HFL Education. Free with registration. You can also watch a film adapted from the book on BBC iplayer.
  • Explore primary and secondary teaching resources from The Linking Network and Windrush 75 Network, including interviews with Windrush elders sharing their stories with pupils in Bradford schools.
  • Writing Realities from the Writing for Pleasure Centre provides a framework and examples of practice to help teachers encourage all young people to celebrate and reflect their own realities in their writing.
  • The Whose Stories? podcasts explore issues of diversity and representation in children’s books with award-winning writers, illustrators and changemakers from the world of children’s literature.
  • Beyond the Secret Garden is a series of articles in online magazine Books for Keeps that looks at the representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic voices in British children’s literature.
  • You can read interviews with Patrice Lawrence and Benjamin Zephaniah talking about their books Granny Came on the Empire Windrush and Windrush Child on the Book Trust website.
  • See suggested books to help celebrate Windrush Day from Best Books for Schools and LoveReading4Kids.

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windrush75.org

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