Our Reception (II) Innovator is Nancy Johnson!
Every year our teachers and students name their classroom after a favourite innovator. It is a fun strategy Kingsgate uses to inspire learning and innovation in our classrooms!
Nancy Johnson an American woman born in 1795. Nancy Johnson was known as the inventor of the first wooden ice-cream freezing machine in 1843. The ice cream maker was a manual device that was cranked by a handle. Inside the maker, a wooden pail contained crushed ice while an inner tin contained the ice cream mix to be frozen. Nancy Johnson signed up for a patent for this device in September 1846. Johnson sold rights to the maker to William Young for $200 dollars. The name of the invention remained “Jonson-Patent Ice Cream Maker”. Johnson’s invention simplified the process of making ice cream.
Innovators innovate — that is, they create new ideas or ways of doing things. Anyone who blazes a trail into new territory can be an innovator — athletes, artists, business people, and chefs, to name just a few. We know that Kingsgate students are destined to be innovators in the future because our classroom practices guide and inspire innovation!
We all love Ice-cream!
Our Reception (II) Classroom was named “Nancy Johnson” in her honour!
Mr Lawrence Whiteley and the children are very inspired by her!
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