Tabei, Tereshkova and Cornaro

Needless to say this year we got some rather unusual names. Still, they do mean something. Tabei, Tereshkova and Cornaro are all women who achieved spectacular things. As the school hopes we will in the future also.

Tabei (My Class)

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This is Junko Tabei. She is the first woman to climb mount Everest. This is a spectacular achievement. Not only that she then went on to climb the seven highest mountains in the World. I just about climbed Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales.

Tereshkova

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This is Valentina Tereshkova. She was the first women to go into Space. This was huge as before this only men were considered important enough to be astronauts. This was a huge step for Gender Equality. 

Cornaro


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This is Elena Cornaro. She is the first woman to receive a degree. This was huge as it encouraged other women to get a degree. But although she had a degree in those times women were not allowed to work. So she dedicated the rest of her live to charity.

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