Arlo (P3)

On International Women’s Day we drank hot chocolate in the assembly. The suffragettes did a petition for women’s rights. Women couldn’t do jobs and couldn’t vote in elections. The suffragettes started a long time ago, in 1903. My great-grandpa was born in 1930.

We also talked about the women we appreciated the most. I really like Jane Goodall. I think she is a good person because she studies chimps. There is even a book she wrote, it is called In The Shadow of Man. Chimps are our ancient ancestors. Jane Goodall was broke. Even though she didn’t have any money she went to Africa at a young age where she studied the chimps. She used cameras and she was making notes. She found out that chimps use tools. All the people at school bullied her because she said she would go to Africa even though she didn’t have much money and she was girl. At the time girls were meant to stay at home and cook for the husband. Jane Goodall didn’t have a husband. The slide in the presentation said that the man had to choose his wife. Jane Goodall is still alive now. She might be in her 70s.

Dian Fossey studied gorillas. There is another woman who studied Orang Utans called Birute Galdikas. I often can’t remember her name. Their group was called Leakey’s Angels or The Trimates. Their group was about studying primates. The Trimates are some of my biggest inspirations.

At the top is Arlo’s drawing of Jane Goodall holding hands with her chimps.