Black and Asian History

At St Mary's we were really excited to find out that Roy McFarlane is Birmingham's poet Laureate this year. Inspired by his poem Where you from? children in 5B had a go at writing their own poems in a similar style. Here is Shenaz's excellent effort.

Where you from?

Where you from?
St  Mary’s

What do you mean?
Where my parents from?
All over the world
 My family tree, all full of surprises
All simply coming back to me

Where you from?
St Mary’s

 I say
Why?  Because everyone is equal
With all our different coloured skin
Chocolate brown
Coffee cream
and Peach white
Spicy as chicken
flavours of the world
Where you from?
St Mary’s

 I say
Why? Because we have different cultures
religions and languages
Patwa, Punjabi, Chinese are lots of fun
Asian, Jamaican and polish too
Christian, Hindu, Islam and Jew

Where you from?
St Mary’s

that’s where
Everyone joins together to be fair
Friends and family have celebrations
So I’ll stop now and have a rest
and in manner of speaking
St Mary’s is where I m from
Its my home and now I’m done