Today, we went to visit the monument to Mary Seacole at St Thomas' Hospital.

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While we were there, both classes shared some of that facts that they had learned about this remarkable woman.

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We read aloud the inscriptions. One on the front which read: "Wherever the need arises on whatever distant shore I ask no higher or greater privilege than to minister to it".

As we left, we read an inscription on the back which has the words of William Howard Russell: "I trust that England will not forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead"

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It was a very impressive monument to a very impressive woman.

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