Your parents have just told you your family is leaving Britain to go live in a new, foreign country

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Your parents have just told you your family is
leaving Britain to go live in a new, foreign
country

• Make two lists

Things that would excite you
Things that would worry you/make you sad
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Objectives and outcomes

• Examine the stories of some of the people who
  left their own country to come and live in
  England
• Identify reasons why they left and discover what
  it was like once they got to Britain
• Write a letter home as an immigrant, to
  describe what your new life in Britain is like

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Look carefully at the 2 pictures
In pairs come up with as many questions as you
can that you want answered
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Date Coming to Britain Windrush Passengers

• What are your questions?

We are now going to try to answer as many of
these questions as we can, starting with...
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Background What was The Empire Windrush?

• The Empire Windrush was a ship
• It brought immigrants from the Caribbean to
  Tilbury in Britain
• The voyage took place in 1948

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Thats a couple of our questions answered, what
about the rest?

• Read through the account of the Windrush
  passenger you will be given. Then put their name
  as a subtitle in your book. Underneath try to
  bullet point the answers to as many of our
  questions as you can for that person. Focus on
• Where are they from?
• Why have they left their country?
• Where did they end up?
• What did they do/jobs once they got here?
• How were they treated/have they found Britain?

Vince Reid, passenger on the Windrush
Try to complete 3 passengers!
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My new life in Britain
Imagine you are one of the passengers who came to
live in England. Write a letter to your family
back home to describe your new life
Include

• How you got
• to England
• Good things about your new life
• Bad things about your new life

EXTENSION If you have time also include what you
think would make your new life in England better