In Victorian times, there was a man called Dr Barnardo who devoted his
life to helping the children that lived on the streets.
His early days
He was born in 1845, in Dublin, Ireland with his half sister, Sophie.
She looked after him because his mother was much too weak to help.
Life at school
Later, when he started school, Doctor Barnardo still looked very small.
Children the same as him looked bigger.
However Thomas was a bright boy as Sophie helped
to teach him how to write and read. Then a few days later he
was sent to Sunday school. The only problem was hopeless at
games and at exams as he thought he did not need to read any
books.
Moving to London
After leaving school, Dr Barnardo moved to London to study at a missionary
school where he saw hundreds of homeless children sleeping on streets.
He felt sorry for them and it was during this time he decided to
help these people.
The first boys and girls home.
Not very long after Doctor Barnardo started up boys and girls homes.
Upstairs in some homes they had beds to sleep in and down stairs they had
a classroom where they were taught carpentry, tailoring and shoe making.
Dr Barnardo's today
However, Dr Barnardo died in 1905
When he was only 60 years old.
Since then lots of children's homes have been named after him and there
is an organisation called Barnardo's that has now been working
to improve childrens lives for over 130 years.
Dr Barnardo believed that every child has the right to a secure and loving
childhood. He would be very pleased to see that other people still
believe in this today.
This web page was made by Marufa, Aysha, Arfa and
Lubna
from Smithy Street Primary School, Year 6.
The text was written by Lubna.
The pictures were drawn by Aysha, Bakthyar, Shofiqul,
Noman and Shakeel.
They used an Apple Mac media kit, which included a
digital camera, camcorder, ibook laptop, microphone & tripod,
using iphoto, imovie, Photoshop and Macromedia Dreamweaver
software.
If you are a Tower Hamlets
School, you can borrow a kit from the Humanities
Education Centre on 02073646405. You will need
to be trained in the use of the equipment.
Some students when
searching for Doctor Barnardo miss-spell his name as Doctor
Barnado, we are saying this here
so that the search engines can pick up this page for
them.
