In Nursery Class, we created portrait paintings of Floella Benjamin, she is beautiful. We learnt that her broadcasting work has been recognised with numerous awards, including an OBE in 2001, a Special Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Award in 2004 and the J.M Barrie Lifetime Award in 2012 for her lasting cultural legacy and in 2020, was awarded a Damehood in the New York Honours List for services to charity.
• We listened to Floella Benjamin’s story -‘Coming to England’
• we learnt that she came from Trinidad
• We discussed how the weather was hot in Trinidad and colder in England
• We filled a suitcase with clothes we would take on holiday somewhere hot or cold