Y6 have learned all about Nelson Mandela during Black History Week and wrote biographies about this key figure.

Nelson Mandela was a politician and an activist and he was a key figure in ending ‘apartheid’ (where there were laws to keep Black and White people separated) in South Africa.

The children learned all about Nelson’s beliefs that everyone should be treated equally and we discussed our own viewpoints on this and how we too think everyone should be treat equally.

We also learned about how Nelson went from being imprisoned for 27 years for campaigning and protesting for equal rights to becoming South Africa’s first Black president.