Black History Month – A Visit from Vernon Samuels

Eagles Class were lucky enough to meet Olympian, singer and local businessman Vernon Samuels as part of our learning about Black History Month. He inspired the model text for our current writing topic of descriptive narratives. We performed our model text for him, detailing his qualifying triple jump for the 1988 Summer Olympics. He was able to give us a real insight into what the actual event was like, enabling us to collect lots of interesting vocabulary the we are now using in our own writing.

He also gave an assembly to the school, talking about why BHM is so important and the people that inspire him everyday. Did you know that his Dad was Bristol’s first black bus driver?

Have a look at our model text and story map we created as a class.