Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World: 1

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Waad al-Kateab is a Syrian activist, journalist and award-winning film-maker who has received numerous accolades (including an Emmy) for her news reports in Aleppo. In 2020 her first feature, For Sama, won the Bafta award for best documentary, and was nominated for the Academy Award for best documentary feature. We have taken some of the fantastic vocabulary used in the Agent Fifi section of the book and created this resource for both KS1 and KS2.

Your class will identify the proper nouns by circling them. These include names, places, and oceans. Since 1989, Mama Maggie and her team have had a holistic approach that has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of children, providing psychological wellness, education, healthcare and, above all, dignity.

Researchers start their career by following a path; scientists build a path where the paved road seems to finish. Women scientists, with their multitasking nature, must find new paths where nobody is looking. Lucy Maud Montgomery was the Canadian author of the Anne of Green Gables novels, which was recently turned into a Netflix series called “Anne with an E”. Her protagonist, Anne Shirley, was an immediate sensation and earned Montgomery an international following. A proper noun is a specific (i.e., not generic) name for a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are always capitalised in English, no matter where they fall in a sentence.

We must love what we do, and how we do it. Let us be instruments for social change: let us act, fight, make a difference. If everyone fights for it, we will have a better world. Celebrated dramatistChris Bush(Standing at the Sky's Edge) and Number 1 hit songwriterMiranda Cooper(Girls Aloud, Kylie Minogue) adapt suffragette descendant Kate Pankhurst’s awarding-winning picture book with music byMiranda CooperandJenniferDecilveo(Miley Cyrus, Beth Ditto), directed byAmy Hodge(Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear National Theatre).The “Queen of Soul” has won multiple Grammy Awards for her contributions to the music industry. She is best known for her hit songs, “Respect”, “Freeway of Love” and “I Say a Little Prayer”. All three disruptive platforms are united by the common purpose of empowering under-represented communities. The first woman elected to Congress in 1916, Jeannette Rankin didn’t always know she wanted to be in politics. Her political interest began when she returned to school in 1910 at the University of Washington in Seattle and joined the state suffrage organization. Over the next four years, she spoke and lobbied for women’s suffrage. Austen is the Georgian era author of classic works such as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma. These social commentary novels depict Austen’s unmatched ability to combine romance and realism. And don’t forget her wit; her revered female characters aren’t afraid to speak their minds. Throughout her career, she also championed ecological preservation of mountain habitats and completed a number of ‘clean-up climbs’.

Having been displaced from Aleppo in 2016, Waad, her husband and their two daughters now live in London, where Waad works with Channel 4 News and leads the advocacy campaign Action For Sama. Quasi-religious group Love Has Won claimed to offer wellness advice and self-care products, but what was actually being dished out by their late leader Amy Carlson Stroud—self-professed “Mother God”—was much darker. How our current conspiritualist culture is to blame. The moment Chinese scientists published genetic details of the new coronavirus, Sarah and her team in Oxford set to work to create a Covid-19 vaccine. Trial results show 70% protection, but the researchers say the figure may be as high as 90% by tweaking the dose. Guide: [A reason to] be proud to be a girl is that we have a strong community of women, we fight for what’s right - and we have like the power to give birth, which is really cool. [laughs]Nisreen is a public health doctor and academic in the UK who researches the health and wellbeing of women and children, focusing on pregnancy. Your class will place the words in the context of the subject matter and look at synonyms/meanings for the words chosen. Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867) English scientist who enabled electricity to become a viable source of power. In 1983, Ride became the first American woman to travel to space. Before that moment, she beat out 1,000 other applicants for a spot in NASA’s astronaut program. She died in 2012 when she was 61 years old.

Muyesser Abdul’ehed who goes by her pen name, Hendan, began making a name for herself as a poet and essayist while studying medicine. By the time she completed her master’s degree in public health, she had resolved to focus on writing.The virus has required the world to go into an absolute stillness, in which we reflect and grow as individuals. We need to make a collective effort to continue growing, and to ensure the sustainability of our fragile world. Rebeca Gyumi is the founder and executive director at the Msichana Initiative, a local NGO working to advance girls' rights. She is an advocate for gender equality, and has vast experience working on youth engagement and building women's movements,and providing advocacy at national and grassroots levels.