#caribbean bangle bracelets

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Vintage Jamaica West Indian Snake Eyes Sterling Silver Bangle Bracelet by Carib-Craft Sterling

Such a wonderful and traditional, thin solid sterling silver, snake eyes, West Indian bangle bracelet! This beautiful Jamaican bracelet (also called a “Bayra”) has a uniquely engraved, 1 5/8-inch pattern design on each side of the solid silver and has two dotted pointy ends on the tips.

The beauty of Bayras is that it is pliable and can open and close to securely surround almost every wrist. West Indian Bangle Bracelets are a culturally significant tradition of the Caribbean Islands in order to pass on the West African and East Indian heritage, and to symbolize union, love and strength.

West Indian jewelers have been creating such high quality, handcrafted, timeless works of art throughout the Caribbean, utilizing the same jewelry crafting methods islanders have been using for centuries and it is demonstrably evident in this magnificent bracelet. This beautiful bracelet is a terrific keepsake of Caribbean culture and heritage and helps keep the Caribbean spirit alive wherever you are!

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Mirrors and Windows

‘Curriculum should provide mirrors for students, in which they can see themselves reflected, and windows, through which they can look into the lives and stories of people who are different.’

Emily Style

I love the quote above.  I think I first came across a variant of it in relation to reading – a challenge about the extent to which books in our schools provide both representation and insight into other people and other places.  This version though has the word curriculum firmly planted at the start – a much broader call for us to consider the nature of pretty much everything we do  

To get to grips with this, the first step is to work out who we are as a community.  For some schools this might be relatively straightforward – for us, a bit less so.  We’re incredibly diverse as a school – at the last count, there are over 40 different languages spoken by our children and families.  Nearly half of our children are African[1] (and of this group around 50% are Eritrean or Ethiopian), our next largest ethnic group is Asian or Asian British (around 14% Pakistani and 12% Indian), followed by White British (8%), Black Caribbean (4%) and White Eastern European (4%).

This is our context, and when it comes to curriculum decision making, I don’t think there’s a stronger rationale than building a curriculum to meet the needs of your community.  It feels unquestionable – no one can come into your school and try to tell you that they know more about the children or community than you do.  And so with that in mind, we started to think critically about aspects of the curriculum that we’d previously never questioned.  

The first subject that we started to unpick was history.  It seemed an obvious choice - its focus on an island-centric British narrative seemed to completely miss the mark when it came to representation.  But before getting carried away, we knew that we needed to be careful.  We wanted our history curriculum to represent our children, but we also needed it to be coherent and well-sequenced.  We wanted it to build cumulatively over time so that each new component built on what had gone before.  The National Curriculum attempts to achieve this be setting out the subject content chronologically through KS2 – you start with the stone age and work your way up to around 1066.  We decided that we’d stick to some aspects of this and also work chronologically (for the most part) from Y3 up.  The starting point for us was the Romans – something we decided to cover in Y3.[2]  The Romans is something that’s covered in most primary schools at some point – in the National Curriculum, it’s phrased as the Roman Empire and its impact on Britain.  We took this as an opportunity to look at the impact on Britain from the perspective of the people who settled here in that period.  As part of their project, the children learn about the expansion of the Roman Empire and the invasion of Britain in 43CE by Emperor Claudius.  They go on to learn about the first African settlers in Britain, and in particular, a unit of Roman soldiers called the Aurelian Moors who were stationed at the fortress of Aballava on Hadrian’s Wall.  The Aurelian Moors were from the North African provinces of the Roman Empire, and thanks to an inscription found on a an altar stone, historians have been able to give an approximate date of between 253 and 258CE.  This would make them Britain’s first black African community – and the fact that Britain was colonized long before we became colonizers gives important context to the multi-cultural development of our country.  This evidence is explored further through the story of the Ivory Bangle Lady, whose remains were discovered in York.  In her sarcophagus, were precious items including bracelets and a perfume bottle – items that suggest she was a woman of high social status.  Through analysis of her bones, historians believe that she was of North African descent.  The idea that parts of Britain were more ethnically diverse in the 3rd century than today is a bit of an eye-opener, and its stories like these that begin to build the mirrors we’re interested in for our children.  

Year 4 works chronologically as we move from the Roman’s into the Anglo Saxon period.  In terms of British history, from the 5th century on, Britain was largely cut off from Africa and the routes previously established by the Romans that enabled the movement of people pretty much disappeared.  At first glance, it doesn’t seem to offer much in terms of representation, but what the Anglo Saxon period does bring though is an opportunity to look at what was happening in another part of the world at the same time.  We focus on two significant leaders - Alfred the Great, probably the most famous Anglo Saxon king, and Al Ma’mun the Caliph of Baghdad.  These two men lived within about 20 years of each other and make for an interesting comparison.  Both men were driven by a desire to build (and share) knowledge and wisdom.  Alfred had Latin works translated into Old English so they could be read more widely – Al Ma’mun had Greek scientific and philosophical texts translated into Arabic so they could be studied in the House of Wisdom (an incredible centre of learning at the heart of the round city of Baghdad).  They both made important cultural contributions and the children explore the idea of legacy (and the disciplinary concept of significance) through an overarching enquiry question: What makes a great leader?  For our children, a first glimpse into the Golden Age of Islam helps us to demonstrate some of the incredible achievements within the Arab (and Muslim) world.[3]  

Year 5 breaks away from the chronology we’ve seen so far by taking in a number of different periods as the children learn about the history of astronomy.  Beginning with the ancient Sumer and Babylonia, we then take in the Ancient Greeks before revisiting the Golden Age of Islam and building on the scientific developments introduced in Y4.  The ancient Greeks enable us to loop back to the Romans and Anglo-Saxons to explore the influence the Greeks had on these later periods – this shifting back and forth in time is supported by the consistent timelines we’ve developed (see mini blog) so the children can see clearly which periods and civilizations came first, which came later and which overlapped.  

In Year 6, we deal with European history and the developments in Nazi Germany through the 1930’s.  This is the third time through KS2 that the children will come across ‘Empire’, beginning with the Romans, then the Islamic Empire through Y4 and Y5 before finally exploring the Nazi ‘Third Reich’.           

Throughout each year group, there are other substantive concepts that act as threads through the different periods we’ve chosen – Religion, Church, Ruler, Hierarchy, Trade, Migration, Democracy etc… all of which helps with what Christine Counsell describes as the ‘deliberate crafting of resonance.’  

In terms of mirrors and windows – we feel that we’ve got a history curriculum that better reflects the children we’ve got in front of us.  We’ve not ignored the National Curriculum, but we’ve done it on our terms – we’ve uncovered hidden (and sometimes ignored) stories that mean something to our children.  And history was just the beginning – we’ve since cast a similar critical eye over other subjects to make sure that context is at the forefront of our thoughts when planning our curriculum.

If you’d like to know more about what this looks like, keep an eye out for future blogs; you can also come to visit us at St Catherine’s and find out for yourself – click here for information about the open event dates for 2024.      

[1] ’African’ is generally stated on our system as ‘Other Black African’ – to break down this unhelpfully broad category, we looked at language spoken and then mapped it to countries to give us more of an idea of specific heritage.       

[2] The Stone Age, Iron Age and Bronze Age don’t feature as part of our taught history curriculum, but they do form part of our wider curriculum offer.  Basically, we’ve got a basket of books on these periods of history in Y3 that are available for the children to read.  We talk about what came before the Romans when working on timelines and reference some of the books that are in class – this is complimented with a history timeline that weaves its way through the KS2 building – beginning with the Stone Age just outside the Y3 classrooms.          

[3] In terms of curriculum coverage, along with introducing the Golden Age of Islam, Alfred also enables us to cover the Anglo-Saxon and Viking ‘struggle for the Kingdom’

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hi!! a hand blog?! BLESS YOU! Please, would you be able to write headcanons about life with Hans if he survived and got away with the heist? The easy street with the 20% lol. Thank you so much for creating this blog!!

Haha @dualcrescent I loved his comment about earning 20% on a beach somewhere, so let’s say for argument’s sake that after the heist the plan is to disappear to the Caribbean (undisclosed location ofc) to lay low for awhile and let anyone trying to hunt down the thieves run into dead ends. Let’s assume you meet during the heist and have enchanted him, but of course he couldn’t act on any impulse while his plan was unfolding, which means that after its success he’s free to test how much you feel the same way...

- your relationship starts off rather doubtful. He knows full well he has full advantage because of situation, you’re not sure how much you trust him with your life after he was willing to hurt so many people.

- despite this you are exhausted, so you fall asleep even though the thieves are celebrating when they realise they’ve escaped. He falls a bit more - it’s hard not to feel protective of someone so vulnerable in their midst, something he didn’t expect to have to deal with. But still, he doesn’t want to let on how much he does care, in case any of his men turn enemies now that they’ve all succeeded. Already the thought of someone hurting you makes his blood boil.

- When you wake up you find his coat covering you as a blanket, and you pull it closer around you. That’s not the first time it’ll happen - if ever he decides to stage another robbery and leaves you behind he’ll inevitably come back and find you asleep with a coat or a shirt of his.

- Of course since he succeeded it’s the easy life ahead! He just didn’t expect to have you around, so when you arrive at his lavish private villa he gives orders to his men, partly because it’s necessary, partly because he can’t wait to be alone with you.

- Once both of you are alone it hits that you haven’t really been alone with him yet. Moments at Nakatomi don’t seem to count, and you were both focused on survival at the time. He really wants to just pounce and knock you onto your back against the table, have you here and now. And what Hans wants he tends to get.

- (But first, wine) (of course) (he’s a cultured villain, he’s either keeping an impressive wine collection in the cellar or bodies) (anyway, wine) (this will become a habit for you both)

- He’s really into rough sex. Not hardcore BDSM, but spanking and handcuffs, having you at his mercy, all irresistible. On the other hand, he likes you to be soft with him, like running your fingers through his hair, though on occasion when you claw your fingers down his back it makes him wild and he’ll do anything to have you screaming with pleasure or begging. And of course he has all the latest toys for you both to enjoy (though what’s ‘latest’ in the late 1980s? Ummmmm how many types of vibrators did they have, Google?) (oooo they had the Rabbit, say no more, thanks Japan)

- Whenever he gets overwhelmed during sex he’ll start whispering German pet names into your ear. Or moaning in German, or just all around forgetting to speak English.

- ‘Liebling’,  ‘mein Schatz’ ‘mein Schatzchen’, ‘Maus’

- He really likes solving puzzles. Whenever you can keep your hands off of each other in your downtime he’s solving crosswords or maths problems, and he tries to teach you to play chess. (Up to you whether this goes down well or not!)

- You didn’t take him seriously when he kept referencing what he’d read in Forbes at Nakatomi, but yes he actually does read it, and other magazines too. There’s a reason why he’s so up to date on men’s fashion after all. He loves to hate on politics/big business as well – if he plans more crimes, it’s always against big corporations that tend to have a history of corruption (and lots of money and valuable assets to steal of course.)

- With future schemes, I think in the beginning, planning stage he’d hide it from you, despite himself not wanting to worry you. Either your snooping blows it, or he compulsively has to boast about how genius it is. You worry, unsure you want to go with him, but knowing that the option is there if you ask him. Eventually this leads to arguments because you want to go with him, worried of losing him, and he wants you to stay behind, because he couldn’t live with himself if something awful happened. In the end neither of you can resist being a Bonnie and Clyde duo.

- Shopppiiiiiiing, specifically for clothes. It’s very much a couple activity, ie. he’ll take you to the tailors with him so he has someone to, ahem, gush at, though he’d never phrase it that way (too juvenile, how dare you). Once you get to the lingerie shop he hands you his card with glee, takes an active interest in what you’re looking at, or sometimes he’ll disappear, instructing you to ‘surprise him’. As for daywear/evening wear, he invests in a chic wardrobe for you, very stylish, though nothing too opulent as you’re both technically on the run from the law and don’t want to draw too much attention. (One of the reasons you go crazy in the lingerie shop – who wants ballgowns when you can wear all the sparkly bras/one pieces/corsets you like and make Hans crazy at the same time?) He also makes a habit of buying you nice jewellery, neat little diamante chokers and bracelets, rings with small but tasteful gems or lustrous pavé set stones, nothing too big, no loose bangles or hoop ear rings, but all of refined taste and very, very expensive. You, on the other hand, take an interest in his tie collection and insist on learning how to do them for him, something he finds very endearing, even though he teases you in the beginning.

- Coffee breaks, any excuse. He’ll take you by the hand, generally to some spot outside a museum or art gallery (or by that beach he mentioned!) and while away the hours.

- Theatre and opera are a weekly event.

- Coming up with fake names and identities to evade detection is also a couple activity for you two. He shows you all the tricks of the trade, where to source fake documents, passports, etc. You ask him to do accents and start giggling at yourself when you sound ridiculous, and of course you get your favourite amused smile from him too. Unless it’s crucial to whatever scheme, then he’ll warn you that you better get it right or you’ll have to stay behind waiting for him.

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Sophie Wessex steps out in £115 Caribbean-inspired bracelet & £159 Penelope Chilvers shoes

Sophie Wessex steps out in £115 Caribbean-inspired bracelet & £159 Penelope Chilvers shoes

“A firm favourite of the Queen’s is Essie’s ‘Ballet Slippers’.” She accessorised with a small pendant necklace and blue drop earrings to perfectly match the floral dress. Sophie also wore her gold bracelet from heritage British brand Halcyon Days. Interestingly, Kate Middleton and Sophie have both been pictured wearing the company’s ‘Maya’ bangles, which come in a variety of colours and styles –…

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Vintage Jamaica West Indian Sterling Silver Bangle Bracelet Bayra by AC Sterling

Such a wonderful and traditional, thin solid sterling silver West Indian bangle bracelet! This beautiful Jamaican bracelet (also called a “Bayra”) has a uniquely engraved, 1 5/8-inch pattern design on each side of the solid silver and has two textured ends on the tips. The beauty of Bayras is that it is pliable and can open and close to securely surround almost every wrist. West Indian Bangle Bracelets are a culturally significant tradition of the Caribbean Islands in order to pass on the West African and East Indian heritage, and to symbolize union, love and strength.

West Indian jewelers have been creating such high quality, handcrafted, timeless works of art throughout the Caribbean, utilizing the same jewelry crafting methods islanders have been using for centuries and it is demonstrably evident in this magnificent bracelet. This beautiful and lightweight bracelet is a terrific keepsake of Caribbean culture and heritage and helps keep the Caribbean spirit alive wherever you are!

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Why Is Skull Fashion So Popular?

Skull fashion is not going anywhere so make your statement. They've for ages been symbols of a variety of subcultures across the ages however are growing more and more widespread in mainstream fashion. Turn to the runways and skulls are all over the place. Check out street style and skulls still sustain their role in urban and underground settings. You can expect a variety of styles which will appeal to your desires in the same way skulls lend themselves to various subcultures and strive to create a mark in everyday fashion. While skull fashion originally started to allow "outsiders" and sub-cultures for example street gangs and motorcycle clubs to flaunt their individuality and uniqueness as well as their alienation from conventional culture, it quickly had become the favorite in the world of fashion by popular approval. Movie and television stars and models quickly embraced the skull concept and brought it to the forefront through live appearances and runway walks. It has now become a frequent fashion statement in most walks of life. Prepare to become intrigued with the numerous kinds and varieties provided by skull fashion. You will find them in many different fashion clothing items for men and women. In women's clothing, you will find it in the majority of designs of clothes for example dresses, shirts, hoodies, leggings, stockings, panties and even more. Likewise with men's clothing, you will find fashion skull in a number of designs of men's clothing, for instance shirts, t-shirts, pants, shorts and more. Skulls are everywhere. And of course, this punk skull fashion is really so very Terminator like; the skulls symbolize the end of the planet, as witnessed in the Terminator movies and TSCC scenes occurring in the post-Judgement Day future. A lot of people indicate the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise as fuel for skullmania. However the skull's climb towards the logo throne has more behind it than a Disney marketing strategy. Similar with the trend for angels a decade or more ago, remember the way the little winged creatures were everywhere. The skull is a fashion statement. Many men and women might avoid this trend as they think skeletons are dark and somewhat morbid, that’s understandable. However, just like any trend, there are various ways in which skeletons are manifesting within the world of fashion. You might notice a sweatshirt having a skeleton printed on it wearing a hat and scarf. Skeletons are manifesting themselves in numerous ways within this trend and this silly sweatshirt is only one example of the way the skeleton has been utilized in an increasingly humorous and light-hearted way. Skulls aren't an indication of rebellion; they, somewhat, are designed to remind individuals of mortality and to have fun with the moment. Perhaps it is one reason why skulls endure as being the fashion motif in jewelry in rings, bracelets, pendants and bangles. These are generally worn not just by biker gangs but by anybody who would like to get noticed. No. It's not necessarily a sign of morbidity. You could say it represents an enlightened soul with an open mind. It might be the symbol of a strong man too or even a girl who dares to take on the world. The skull and bones is famously the sign made more popular by pirates and rebels. In the end, it comes down to personal taste. Skeleton leggings have been available for several years, but as the skeleton trend gains popularity there are more and more options. Many people might stay away from many of the more hard core skeleton leggings, the jeans and hoodies offer great alternatives. Tights make the perfect alternative for someone who would like to wear this trend but wants something a little bit more subtle. The skull can be a bold statement inside the fashion world that spreads in a variety of styles. Skulls started appearing in fashion from the punk movement of 1970's London, followed by popularity in heavy metal and goth music. Blues/rock band the Grateful Dead created their famous skull logo in 1973. Through the 1980's, Goth culture had adopted the skull by using a serpent crawling through an eyeball as a favorite symbol. Skulls have transcended their roots in tribal tradition to turn into symbols of the biker movement and today fashion accessories to people who would like to emit a sophisticated yet dangerous vibe. Each Skull piece is simple enough to discreetly tie a look together but has such personality it can easily become the star of your outfit too. That’s the beauty, you are able to suggest sense of badass danger with one look and moody sophistication with another. Traditionally worn only by pirates, Hell's Angels, and small boys pretending to be pirates or Hell's Angels, skulls have emerged as being a hot new fashion symbol. They are everywhere, from Bermuda shorts to boardroom ties. Even hip babies are now able to wear skull adorned onesies and diaper covers! Exactly why are we fascinated by skulls? Maybe because they remind us to never take fashion—or life—too seriously. The skull symbol has different meaning to each person, with death, obviously, being one of them. To other people, however, the skull can symbolize danger, spirituality, or perhaps the afterlife. For some it's a sign of luck, triumph over adversity, or a symbol of knowledge gained. Whether or not it carries a personal meaning for you or you just like the skull look, it is just a fashion trend which has been around for quite a while and appears to be here for quite some time to come.

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