Here we depict Harriet Tubman and Olaudah Equiano, both significant slave abolitionists. We learnt how after freeing herself from slavery, Harriet Tubman went back to the network of railroad tunnels and guided over 300 slaves to freedom with the help of her lantern, risking her own life and freedom repeatedly to save others.

Olaudah Equiano was captured as a young boy in Nigeria and in his autobiographic book he tells of his extreme fear and shock in that moment of being dragged onto a ship and fearing for his own safety. Like Harriet Tubman, after buying his own freedom, he dedicated his life to campaigning in Britain to abolish slavery for ever.

This globe speaks of the triangle of trade when African people were enslaved by Europeans and carried in boats across the vast expanse of ocean, to be made to farm produce such as sugar cane under extremely harsh and inhumane circumstances. The globe also features Harewood House, a stately home just 60 minutes’ drive from our school, that was built entirely from the profits of sugar plantations where black people having been trafficked from West Africa were forced to endure free labour to farm produce to be sold for their slave masters’ gain. It depicts a slave ship and a typical scene from a Caribbean sugar plantation in the 1800s. The study of Harewood House taught us that everywhere in Britain there are places built entirely on the profits from trafficking and enslaving African people from as early as the 1700s.

This globe represents your journey and how you should never be limited by the limiting thoughts of people around you and never give up on your dreams. Katherine Johnson said, ‘Your creativity can travel beyond your reality’.

Mae Jemison and Katherine Johnson teach us that your race and gender do not define your capabilities, they both went above and beyond all expectations of what they as black women could achieve. In the fields of maths, astrophysics, space travel and limitless thinking, they inspired the world and continue to do so, to this day.

This globe presents a typographical word exploration, from Year 6 pupils of Rossington St Michael’s C of E Primary School, Doncaster, after intergenerational conversations about racism, decolonisation, the negatives and the way forward. We chose some of the perceptions and actions that contribute to racism such as bias and stereotypes, so as not to ignore the problems that exist. We then explored words and actions that can help us to deconstruct racism and find positive ways forward to truly value and respect each other and build human connection and bring about equity for all.

We chose to depict the beauty of the natural resources all around us and to make visual reference to the issues that climate injustice perpetuates, such as forest fires and acute drought. We want to take inspiration from these three world leaders: Wangari Maathai, William Kamkwanba and Autumn Peltier, in tackling climate change with positive action in terms of mobilising people for change, innovative eco-friendly inventions, and speaking out against the imbalances that exist when prioritising vital natural resources for everyone.