A fireside chat with Professor Helen Pankhurst CBE Year 13 pupils enjoyed an incredible opportunity to meet and chat with Professor Pankhurst in celebration of International Women’s Day
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Katie Wood Assistant Headteacher (Pupils) and Head of Sixth Form, Portsmouth High School GDST
Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of Britan’s suffragette movement
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ne evening back in March, we were kindly gifted an opportunity for our politics A-Level students to visit the London office of the law firm K&L Gates, to attend a very special networking event. I accompanied Bailey, Bethany and Maia as we travelled by train and then through the city at twilight to join the audience for ‘A Fireside Chat with Professor Helen Pankhurst CBE’, in celebration of International Women’s Day. Helen Pankhurst is the granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst and the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, who were leaders in the British suffragette movement. Inspired by the suffragettes and
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