Refugee Week Year 6
We started by talking about what refugee means - and then watched a Newsround article about the families that have been displaced from Ukraine. Good discussion using oracy strategies.
Then we introduced the story 'The Arrival' by Shaun Tan. A fabulous fully illustrated book about a man who leaves his family in search of safety. It tells the story of who he meets, the friends and the not so friendly and how eventually his family rejoin him in their new home. This is all illustrated with no words - so everything had to be inferred from what they saw in the pictures.
The children then chose how to interpret what they saw and either created written descriptions to the illustrations; wrote a letter from the man to his family about what happened on his journey/arrival at the new country or a letter to a refugee to show that they are welcome.