Its like im being interrogated, guv. It wasnt me, ive got no comment to make, and id rather not be here. I met Chaz In London in 2007. I think my book came out that i had just done and chaz actually said that hed bought my book. I can remember i was like youre the first person i know that bought my book. I met his work before i met the man. Chaz is just a creative visual genius with what he does visually, making stuff like that and people who get to know me, i write, i talk, im a storyteller. I didnt want children to be me. I know it can sound silly but fundamentally that was it. The classroom is everywhere, the walls are invisible, the boundaries are none. Well make it free, well make it as accessible as possible. I grew up mainly in easton and across to st pauls. When i was about two and a bit, three years old, my younger brother ended up being adopted and then i was sent away to go live with my grandparents and i came to bristol to live with my mum, who was settling with who would b
and moved from a lot of schools. when i looked through textbooks in school everybody that achieved, no one ever looked like me. it kind of made you feel that you could never be great. when you look through education it is still a very bias eurocentric point of view. we re here to celebrate that we can make a change and we can be the difference that so many people want to see. learning about a more diverse history is a small step towards a greater understanding and an empathy with the rest of the world. massive attack have been brilliant. this is the legacy lonnie johnson has left for us all to ensure - we enjoy, work well. and always stand tall. that s the one! there are over 24,000 schools in england, if we can reach 10% of those schools we ll be happy. it s like i m being interrogated, guv. it wasn t me, i ve got no comment to make, and i d rather not be here. i met chaz in london in 2007. i think my book came out that i had just done and chaz actually said that he d bought
manchester united footballer mason greenwood is arrested for allegedly breaching bail conditions that were set after he was taken into custody on suspicion of rape and assault injanuary. more than a0 turkish miners are now known to have died following an underground explosion dozens of others were injured. and the rugby league world cup gets under way a year late as hosts england take on samoa in the opening game of the tournament at newcastle. now on bbc news, we are england: classroom revolution. it s difficult to pay attention in class when successful people in textbooks don t look like you and unsuccessful ones do. chaz and lawrence are on a mission to change that. for me school didn t really work. i went to six secondary schools and moved from a lot of schools. when i looked through textbooks in school everybody that achieved, no one ever looked like me. it kind of made you feel that you could never be great. when you look through education it is still a very bias
you feel that you could never be great. so, we make education resources, bringing to light stories and histories that are often not used in normal mainstream education. so we ve got people like the haitian revolution and they fought against the english and the french to gain their freedom from enslavement. you ve got samuel sharpe and paul bogle, and also someone called nanny of the maroons. what we re about is looking at the people who under great constraint achieved amazing things. look what they did, look what they achieved and we can all learn from their experiences. let s listen. i ll catch you and you, young man, and will be good, yeah. and just try and do the best that you can. just know that sometimes it can go a little bit wrong but you can always try to put it back together, yeah. all right.
the samuel sharpe lesson? yeah, we have, yeah. what we ve done here is try to tell his story through artwork. yeah, so, liam, do you want to explain to me your picture? i ve got the battle ships for when the protest got brutal. the victory for the people that believed in god to get out and i have to jamaican flag. it s a joy to see. yeah, are you pleased with yourselves? yeah. that s the longest the boys have ever stayed in a classroom. the fact that they were in there for so long and focused it was really good. i m chuffed to bits. i think it was better than a normal lesson because in a normal lesson i would probably have walked out by now. i enjoyed myself. it s showing that you can educate as long as you can engage in many different spaces because fundamentally it is storytelling and storytelling can cross across many forms