Blue Gate Fields Junior School
  • Home
  • Our School
    • Our Aims
    • British Values statement
    • Our Staff
    • Our Library
    • Our Governors
    • Location, Contacts and Accessibility
    • Our Vacancies
  • Information
    • Admissions
    • Term Dates
    • The School Day
    • Breakfast Club and School Meals
    • After School Provision
    • Uniform
    • Snow and Bad Weather
    • Text Messaging
    • Attendance
    • Behaviour
    • Policies
    • Pupil Premium
    • Sports Funding
    • GDPR
    • Freedom of Information
    • Pupil Attainment
    • Public Sector Equality Duty
    • Financial Information
    • Charging and Remissions
    • Compliments
    • Complaints
  • Curriculum
    • Our vision, values and aims and the curriculum
    • Curriculum Overview
    • Our Curriculum Aims and Intent
    • Our Curriculum Implementation
    • Teaching and Learning Policy
    • Feedback including Marking
    • English and Literacy
    • Drama
    • Maths and Numeracy
    • Science
    • History
    • Geography
    • Computing and ICT
    • Religious Education
    • PHSE
    • Philosophical Enquiry
    • Art
    • Design and Technology
    • Music
    • Physical Education
    • Modern Foreign Languages
    • Spiritual, Moral, Cultural and Social Education
  • Inclusion
    • Equalities
    • Special Educational needs and Disability (SEND)
    • Provision for the most able or talented pupils
  • Well-being
    • The Team
    • Well-being for Pupils
    • Well-being for Parents
    • Well-being for Staff
    • Widening Horizons
  • Parents
    • Ofsted Inspection Report March 2023
    • Welcome to the Junior School!
    • Secondary School Applications
    • Home Learning Information for parents and carers
    • Online Safety for Parents
    • Advice and support for parents
    • Parent View
    • Letters to Parents and Carers
  • Pupils
    • Information for children
    • Your Well-being
    • Art at Home
    • School Council
    • Online Safety for Pupils
    • Pupil Web Links
  • A Learning School
    • Partnerships for Improvement
    • Externally led projects
    • Research and development within school
    • Educational Expertise
  • School Blogs
    • School Blog
    • Year 3 Blog
    • Year 4 Blog
    • Year 5 Blog
    • Year 6 Blog
    • Anti-bullying and Kindness Blog
    • Arts and Culture Blog
    • School Council Blog
    • Library Blog
    • Poetry Blog
  • OFSTED
    • OFSTED Reports
    • School Self- Evaluation 2021-2022
    • For Inspection team

A visit from Emdad Rahman MBE 28th February 2018

9/3/2018

 
Emdad Rahman MBE came to visit Salma's Year 6 Literacy Group as part of our World Book Day celebrations. Emdad grew up a 'stone's throw' from Blue Gate Fields Junior School, and he talked about his life and achievements. His passion is writing poetry, and he loves football, so that is what he writes about. Emdad told us  that he is always having creative ideas, keeps notes on his 'phone, and keeps a scrapbook of his life. He explained that it is very useful to look back on, as it's so easy to forget all the things we've done as we get older! Currently he is campaigning and raising money for a Dementia charity, and also for projects in Bangladesh and Ghana. He read us one of his poems, which is shown below, about a footballer from North Africa, who was famous in his day, but has been forgotten. Emdad's poems have been archived by the Briish Library, and can be accessed online via football.org

Larbi Ben Mbarek: The forgotten genius
EMDAD RAHMAN
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017
 
The first to strike gold in Europe
Was that famous Black Pearl
Fondly known as Benbarek
To others the Moroccan Earl
 
El Ouatane aged fourteen
Honed the Black Pearl’s stealth
Two Spanish titles for El Prodigio
Order of Merit after his death
 
Forty three goals for Stade Français
As Larbi walked the walk
Fifty six as Spain’s Perla Negra
La perle noir du Maroc
 
From twenty Francs a day
An Iberian prince at Marseille
The first ever “black pearl”
Very high praise from Pele
 
Eight goals against Southend
A first French cap against Italy
War loomed and Larbi went home
With the arrival of the Nazi
 
French journalists raged in despair
When Atletico signed a cheque
One wrote; ‘Sell the Eiffel Tower,
But not Ben Barek’
 
Idéal Club Casablanca and US Marocaine
Stade Français adding spice
Atlético Madrid Los Rojiblancos
Where Larbi won La Liga twice
 
Nineteen caps for Les Bleus no myth
Danced on dictator Franco’s deck
Bel-Abbès and a stadium named
For Haj Abdelkader Larbi Ben M’barek
 
© emdad rahman
 
It seems Haj Abdelkader Larbi Ben M’barek has been airbrushed from football history.
 
What a player and what history!


Comments are closed.

    Archives

    June 2023
    May 2023
    February 2023
    November 2022
    September 2022
    June 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    June 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    July 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    June 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    July 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015

Blue Gate Fields Junior School   -   King David Lane   -   London   -    E1 0EH   -    Tel: 020 7790 3616