Heart of the Nation - Spotlight stories

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HEART

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NATION

Spotlight stories

Everybody has their own stories. In this lesson you will discover the stories of three people who currently work for or who have in the past worked for the NHS.

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AFTER THIS LESSON YOU WILL KNOW

• how personal stories fit in the larger image of the NHS
• three personal stories of NHS workers
• how to create your own personal story

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Lotte Fuchs

Allyson Williams

Muhayman Jamil

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“By the time I had been in this country for five to six years, things in Iraq were going from bad to worse. They had called me up for further compulsory military duty. I thought I can’t drag the kids back there – we might as well stay here.”

What would you have done
in his situation?

DR MUHAYMAN JAMIL

Dr Muhayman Jamil graduated from medical school in Baghdad in 1980. After his study he had to serve in the army for five years. He decided to come to the UK afterwards to get his postgraduate degree. Listen to his story.

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Why did the three neurosurgeons go quiet?

You just listened to the story of Dr Muhayman Jamil.

Each student now writes down an answer to this question using lessonup.app. 

• Students can sign up on their mobile phone or tablet to the www.LessonUp.app. They will be asked  for a PIN code, which can be found in the bottom-left corner. Students who sign up under a false name may be removed by the teacher. 
• Students who do not have a mobile phone or tablet can join the quiz with another student. 

Dr Jamil gained a lot of experience during the war and in his work for the NHS. In his situation. would you have stayed in the UK? Or would you have gone back to help the country you had left?

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Question: Dr Jamil gained a lot of experience during the war and in his work for the NHS. In his situation, would you have stayed in the UK? Or would you have gone back to help the country you had left?

Do: Ask students the reasons for their answer.

ALLYSON WILLIAMS

Allyson came to London in May 1969 from Trinidad and Tobago to train as a nurse at the Whittington Hospital in Highgate. To get over her loneliness when she first arrived, she met up with friends as often as she could, going with them to parties and nightclubs. Allyson and her husband Vernon were founding members of Notting Hill Carnival.

“I met my husband Vernon in 1974. He took me to a workshop of the Notting Hill Carnival where fellow Trinidadians were making costumes for Carnival. It felt like home. I was also very proud that they were sharing our culture.”

What would you have done in her situation to not feel lonely in a new country?

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Where did Allyson originally come from?

1. Trinidad
2. Grenada
3. Barbados
4. Venezuela

Answer: A. Trinidad

Where did Allyson meet her husband?

1. In Trinidad
2. At a workshop of the Notting Hill Carnival
3. At the Whittington Hospital in Highgate
4. At a friend’s party

Answer: B. At a workshop of the Notting Hill Carnival 

Allyson tried to find new friends and family by going to parties and joining the Notting Hill Carnival.
What would you have done to not feel lonely in a new country?

Each student writes down an answer to this question.

What would you have done
in her situation?

LOTTE FUCHS

In 1938 the situation was getting worse for Jewish people in Europe. Her family sent her from what was then Czechoslovakia to study as a nurse at Booth Hall Children’s Hospital in Manchester. She was 17 and came here on her own. She had only been in Britain a few months when she found out that her brother was in the Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp.

She went and knocked on doors to find someone who would agree to sponsor her brother so that she could get him out. She managed to find someone to give him a visa, and this saved his life.

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Where did Lotte originally come from?

1. Germany
2. Manchester
3. Oranienburg
4. Czechoslovakia

Answer: D. Czechoslovakia

How did Lotte save the life of her brother?

1. She asked someone to sponsor her brother
2. She gave him a visa
3. She unfortunately could not save her brother
4. She worked overtime at the hospital to save money

• Answer: A. She asked someone to sponsor her brother
  

Which story affected you the most?

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Question: Which story affected you the most?

Do: Ask students the reasons for their choice.

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This pandemic has been hard for many people. Do you know somebody, perhaps a family member, friend or a neighbour, who works in the NHS or who has had a hard time? Share their story with your class. 

Their story:

Assignment

Students have just seen three stories of people who work, or who have worked, in the NHS. Now it is up to them to share a story about someone they know who has had a hard time during this pandemic, perhaps even someone who works in the NHS. Print the worksheets and get students to write down their stories – or give them the sheets as homework. 

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Their story:

Who do you know who
has had a rough time?
Write or draw (part of)
their story and
add pictures.

Students have just seen three stories of people who work, or who have worked, in the NHS. Now it is up to them to tell the story of someone they know who has had a hard time during this pandemic.