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Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough! The children have celebrated this incredible man by watching a special assembly about him this afternoon, presented by Steve Backshall.

Here’s some information about this wonderful man:
He applied to join the BBC in 1950 and was rejected. He never passed his driving test. He cannot stand rats. He travelled to forty countries to make Life on Earth, and when that series aired in 1979, it changed wildlife filmmaking forever. Today, he turns one hundred, and he is still producing television.

Over a hundred documentaries. More than forty species are named after him, including a parasitic wasp named in his honour this week. A kakapo in New Zealand. A constellation. He has narrated the lives of creatures that had never been filmed before, in places most people will never go, with a voice so recognisable that it became the sound of the natural world itself for generations of viewers across the planet.

During the war, his family fostered two Jewish sisters who had fled Nazi Germany. He served in the Royal Navy. He edited children's science textbooks before television found him. His first programme as a BBC trainee was about a fish once thought extinct. He has never stopped being curious about what is still alive on this earth, and what we stand to lose.

"I will not see how that story ends," he wrote recently. "But I remain convinced that the more people enjoy and understand the natural world, the greater our hope of saving both it and ourselves."

Happy 100th birthday, Sir David Attenborough. Born 8 May 1926. Still watching. Still telling us to pay attention to our wonderful world. ... See MoreSee Less