The Lady with the Limp: Things I never knew about the work of Florence Nightingale...

Here follow some quotes from the newspaper reports on Florence Nightingale, written by my class. It is amazing how many things I did not know about her life:

One of the boys in my class actually WAS a nurse during the Crimean War "Florence Nightingale reported that my work had been made more difficult by the terrible conditions" I must say he looks good on it!

Florence Nightingale was a keen cooker of Chinese food: "Florence Nightingale reported that her wok had been greatly affected by the unhygienic hospitals"

Heaven help us: SATS are only a few weeks away.

p.s. Real facts that I happen to like about Florrie N

1. She drew the long straw being born in Florence; her poor sister was born in Naples and had to put up with being called Parthenope (the Greek name for Naples). There will be a small prize available for the person who can come up with the worst place to be born if your parents insist on naming you after that place! (Bognor anyone?)




2. She invented the pie chart. Yes, thanks to dear old Flozza, I have to try and get 11 year olds to understand the concept of 360 degrees in a circle, each degree representing a different number of people, depending on how many people the pie chart is talking about of course and then to work out how many people each section of the chart represents and that even if both pie charts show that half the children in each class like cheese and onion crisps best, this does not mean that the same number of children in each class like cheese and onion because each circle may not represent the same number of children...If only she'd stuck to Chinese cookery and not branched out into pie-making!




3. She was apparently not the angelic character we have been led to believe - hehe.