In celebration of 30 years of girls at Westbourne House, the Westbourne House community came together to create a digital book full of women who inspire them.
Read online: Inspirational Women by Westbourne House School
Inspired by the popular book Bedtime Stories for Rebel Girls, the ebook includes a wide variety of girls and women, from mums, grannies and sisters, to fictional and historical characters to women well-known today. It also includes a few Old Westbournians and a Westbourne House teacher!
Pupils, teachers and other members of the community were invited to submit their entries, Well done to everyone who submitted an entry - it was very difficult to choose which ones to include, but ultimately 33 stories were chosen. Some of our Year 8 pupils (2017/18), including Abi Cooper, Fraser Lyne, Issy Allan and Laura Hantrais, compiled the book using BookCreator, a fantastic tool which allows anyone to publish an ebook.
The book features the women listed below, amongst many others inspiring women:
- Emma Watson
- J K Rowling
- Ali Sparkes, an author who has visited the school
- Jenny Lyne, a teacher at Westbourne House and ex-international rugby player
- Darcey Bussell
- Helen Keller
- Boudicca
- Holly Colvin, an Old Westbournian and ex-international cricket player
- Tinka Allingham, an Old Westbournian
We hope you enjoy reading it!