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What can we learn from the photo about people who travelled on the windrush?
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How did Britain become so diverse? Are we all immigrants really? What have immigrants contributed to British society? How was the UK formed? How were Jamaicans treated when they came to Britain? How has immigration changed Britain? Diversity Multiculturalism
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It was an invitation. An invitation to come "Help re-build the Mother country" It seemed like an opportunity Jobs for everyone A better future for our children Then home again Just a few years We left the blue skies The sun, the sea, the light And then the shock The cold and damp The grey skies The cold stares The cold grey stares The ship arrived on June 22nd 1948 No band played a welcome 492 hopefuls stepped ashore Hopefuls With our British passports in our hands We thought the journey had ended It was just beginning We came for a few years We stayed a lifetime and more Hopefuls with our British passports in our hands They didn't think we were British And now our children know no other This is their home And ours Annotate the poem with comments on what Jamaicans found Britain to be like They found Britain to be cold If you finish answer the questions below 1) look at the poem’s name. Why do you think it was called this? 2) Were the Jamaicans intending to stay? Explain your answer 3) How  old do you think the person who wrote the poem is? Explain 4) How do they feel about Britain now?
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Jamaica was a colony in the British Empire. This means its people were under the control of the British government. Many Jamaicans would have grown up being taught that Britain – “the Mother” country” was a wealthy nation and was generously educating and protecting Jamaicans.
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How Far Did People Who Came To Britain find it a place of cold stares and grey skies?

  • 1. What can we learn from the photo about people who travelled on the windrush?
  • 2.
  • 3.  
  • 4.
  • 5. How did Britain become so diverse? Are we all immigrants really? What have immigrants contributed to British society? How was the UK formed? How were Jamaicans treated when they came to Britain? How has immigration changed Britain? Diversity Multiculturalism
  • 6.
  • 7. It was an invitation. An invitation to come "Help re-build the Mother country" It seemed like an opportunity Jobs for everyone A better future for our children Then home again Just a few years We left the blue skies The sun, the sea, the light And then the shock The cold and damp The grey skies The cold stares The cold grey stares The ship arrived on June 22nd 1948 No band played a welcome 492 hopefuls stepped ashore Hopefuls With our British passports in our hands We thought the journey had ended It was just beginning We came for a few years We stayed a lifetime and more Hopefuls with our British passports in our hands They didn't think we were British And now our children know no other This is their home And ours Annotate the poem with comments on what Jamaicans found Britain to be like They found Britain to be cold If you finish answer the questions below 1) look at the poem’s name. Why do you think it was called this? 2) Were the Jamaicans intending to stay? Explain your answer 3) How old do you think the person who wrote the poem is? Explain 4) How do they feel about Britain now?
  • 8.
  • 9. Jamaica was a colony in the British Empire. This means its people were under the control of the British government. Many Jamaicans would have grown up being taught that Britain – “the Mother” country” was a wealthy nation and was generously educating and protecting Jamaicans.
  • 10.
  • 11.