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planejaneagain · 29/04/2015 10:32

My daughter came home with a letter saying we need to make a poster on 'perseverance' its asking to add a picture of a famous british person who has perservered....i dont know of any...winston churchill, probably, but i think everyone will do him!

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Pepperpot99 · 29/04/2015 10:37

How about some of the prominent women of the Suffragette movement? very timely too, given the forthcoming General Election in a few days. If those women didn't persevere I don't know who did Smile

TheCowThatLaughs · 29/04/2015 11:03

What about the woman who died recently who campaigned against fgm? I can't remember her name, sorry

museumum · 29/04/2015 11:05

Jane Tomlinson?
A sports woman - jo Pavey?
Mark Beaumont
A Paralympian?

Stealthsquiggle · 29/04/2015 11:08

Scott of the Antartic?

planejaneagain · 29/04/2015 11:10

Thank you...i will look into some of these with my daughter..

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CitronVert · 29/04/2015 11:12

Isn't there tha famous story of Robert Bruce and the spider?

He'd all but given up the fight but watched a spider try again and again to buid a web across a gap. It eventually succeeded and inspired him to keep on going.

cdtaylornats · 01/05/2015 15:44

Joanna Lumley in her campaign for the Ghurkas

Fallulah · 02/05/2015 14:22

There's some good stuff online about how it takes 10000 hours to get good at something.

Rebecca Addlington?
J K Rowling ?

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