Empire Windrush- The Ones We Left Behind

Three-minute video. Age coding 11-18. Teachers can use as a lesson starter to introduce students to Windrush studies. English elder, Belle Johansson gives her account on watching the Pathe News in a cinema in Kentish Town, London, and seeing the arrival of Caribbean migrants on the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, June 1948. Subjects: Citizenship, Drama, and Modern History.

This video was produced by Full Spectrum Productions in 2006, for the Heritage Lottery Fund project, The Ones We Left Behind. Community groups can also use the video to engage with diverse communities around issues of migration, family life, identity ad belonging. Parents can use this thought provoking video to support home learning and beyond, helping students to look outwards with curiosity and respect and learning from real voices.