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Explore important religious tales with our new faith-based
stories including Matthias and the Miracle Meal which is
endorsed by Walk Through the Bible
and gave thanks to God
Jesus took the loaves and the fish
loaves and fish into pieces
for them. He began breaking the
. They headed back
and gave some to each of his disciples
s and he realised that they
The man pointed over to Matthia
across at Matthias,
were talking about him. Jesus looked
to him.
you,”
“Thank
,
mouthed
smiled and
it. But there were more
Wow! Matthias couldn’t believe
surprises to come.
him and appeared to
Jesus gathered his disciples around
give them instructions.
into the waiting crowd.
and fish to the people and
The disciples handed out bread
happening. It was as
Matthias noticed something strange
up with more and more
if their hands kept getting topped
seemed to have more
who
disciples
food. It wasn’t only the
food to ended up with lots
than enough. Everyone they gave
forgotten about taking
totally
had
s
Matthia
hands.
their
in
what was happening
notes – he was too absorbed with
s didn’t have to wait long
What was Jesus up to? Matthia
into the vast crowd and
to find out. The men disappeared
on the grass.
began to ask people to sit down
before his eyes.
down, Matthias could see
Now that everyone was sitting
dad and sister were. He
across the crowd to where his mum,
know that he was okay.
them
let
to
gave them a quick wave
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Monday 22nd Septem
ber. 4:00 p.m.
I’m supposed to draw
Gypsy John’s amazing
adventures in the othe
r
gave me but I accident notebook that Nanny
ally left that back at
caravan today. This
book is my diary. Nann the
y says
that I should use this
one to write about
my days,
so that I can rememb
er my childhood whe
n I’m
grown up.
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Historical guides tell
real-life stories of
inspirational 昀椀gures
6
7
ue writing?
in
e, the first newspaper
up the West Indian Gazett
ean community.
England for the Caribb
g up a carnival?
get involved in settin
You: How did you
unity,
for the Caribbean comm
1958 was a difficult year
g Hill. So
CJ: Unfortunately,
Nottingham and Nottin
had been attacked in
ve
e
peopl
ean
Caribb
as
to have something positi
be a really good idea
would
London,
it
that
Cross,
d
we decide
carnival in Kings
d to host a Caribbean
to focus on. We decide
dancing!
and
music
be
where there would
You: Did you contin
Mother
Claudia Jones, ‘The
of Carnival’
rush,
Introduce often untold stories from
different communities through mini series
like the Caravan Diaries which follows four
cousins from a Traveller family
CJ: Yes! In fact, I set
l of the Empire Wind
Following the arriva
in Britain
migrants arrived
thousands more
rful
One of the most colou
from the Caribbean.
influence
group have had an
ways in which this
Carnival in
Hill
gh the Notting
on Britain is throu
enjoy
e
st, millions of peopl
London. Every Augu
Caribbean.
traditions of the
the music, food and
in 1960 so
has now arrived
The time machine
to Claudia Jones,
that you can talk
Jones
history of the
Claudia 4)
a key figure in the
96
(1915–1
val.
Notting Hill Carni
You: Claudia, you have
But I really don’t thin
k
I’m going to be all that
keen to read about
my childhood when
I’m
grown up. All childhoo
d
seems to be is scho
ol!
School finished half
an hour ago, but I have
stay behind while Mum
to
and Dad are inside
the
classroom with my teac
her, Mr Hardy. He aske
d
them to come in so
MATH TEST
they
8 + 11 = 15
could all talk about
the fact
2 x 4= 7
that I don’t enjoy scho
7-1=6
ol
5 x 2 = 10
very much.
5 + 5 = 20
9 x 3 = 16
I also did badly in a
10 - 6 = 4
mat
hs
4 x 3 = 10
test last week, and
5
12 - 1 = 11
he wants
10
9 + 2 = 11
to discuss that, too.
I’m not like my olde
r
cousin, Alfie, who is
living with us on Farm
er
Jenkins’s land. He's
always enjoyed goin
g
to school. He likes
1
learning, and he’s goo
d
at sports. I don’t join
in
the sports at break
time,
because I don’t wan
t my
classmates to laug h
at how rubbish I am
(and
I don’t think I would
be picked, anyway).
I also can’t really join
in when the other kids
chat about the
Who tried to shows they love
charge their because
I don’t
phone!?
get to watch
much TV at the
camp. Whenever we
have too many plug
s on at
the same time, all the
caravans lose power.
If I got to do more
drawing at school,
I would
enjoy it more, but we
rare
We spend most of our ly get to do drawing.
time on boring less
ons.
ng!
it. We
a TV programme about
and the BBC even made
culture.
to celebrate Caribbean
more indoor carnivals
decided to have five
‘Mother of
you are known as the
that
er
wond
no
ia, it’s
You: Thanks Claud
You: That sounds amazi
CJ: It was fantastic,
Carnival’!
l years, but where were
lived in London for severa
you
born?
my
but when I was nine,
born in Trinidad in 1915
Claudia Jones: I was
York City.
ca and I grew up in New
family moved to Ameri
d?
end up in Englan
You: How did you
g
list, so I started writin
l I wanted to be a journa
very
CJ: After leaving schoo
Worker. The paper was
aper called the Daily
so I ended up in prison
for a communist newsp
h,
thoug
ment
American govern
back to
unpopular with the
the USA. I couldn’t go
told that I had to leave
arrived in
and was eventually
nce, so that’s how I
seen as a bad influe
Trinidad, because I was
1955.
in
d
Englan
Children’s Day
at Notting Hill
Carnival,
which has now
becom
biggest street parti e one of the
es
first outdoor carni in the world. The
val took place
in 1966,
two years after
Claudia Jones’s
death.
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