York Schools of Sanctuary - resources
Facts
- 'Learn, Embed, Share' - find out more about how to become one of the growing number of UK-wide Schools of Sanctuary
- Facts & figures
- Current list of UK Schools of Sanctuary
Films
Yaarob tells the story of his family’s flight from Syria through an animation he made as part of a Save the Children project.
‘To celebrate the 18th birthday of the Refugee Council's Children's Section, we produced three short animations featuring child refugees sharing their stories in their own words.’
Refugee Council
Seeking Refuge, a series of short animations from the BBC
Human Flow a movie by Ai Weiwei
The site includes two videos and 16 photos.
The film is available to purchase.
The award-winning BBC series Exodus: Our Journey to Europe explores the issue of migration from a personal perspective. There are lesson resources available too.
Torn From Home is a short film produced for Holocaust Memorial Day. It could be used at any time in the year.
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Ross Kemp: Libya’s Migrant Hell
Actor (formerly Eastenders) and presenter Ross Kemp made this documentary about human trafficking in Libya in 2017. He talks about it on Good Morning Britain and it is reviewed in The Guardian. NOTE that the documentary talks about the ‘migrant crisis’ so this would need careful unpicking re the phrases ‘migrant’ and ‘refugee’ and ‘asylum seeker’ (many of whom would have taken the same journey).
Activities (ready-made resources)
- Holocaust Memorial Day - 27 Jan - https://www.hmd.org.uk/
- Refugee Week - 20 June - http://refugeeweek.org.uk/
- Human Rights Day - 10 December - http://www.un.org/en/events/humanrightsday/
- Video game - http://www.playagainstallodds.ca/
- https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-involved/teaching-resources/positive-images
- Schools of Sanctuary resource pack: https://schools.cityofsanctuary.org/resources/
- Ideas for activities - https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/may/25/how-to-teach-refugees
- Quiz - https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/schools-of-sanctuary
- Creative lesson activities - http://www.tracesproject.org/learning-activities/
- https://www.amnesty.org.uk/files/2017-06/Activity%20-%20Seeking%20safety.pdf?D7urbCyyopydnnGsfttF_8CbdfcXPVJC=
- Reading International Solidarity Centre - global education resources - http://w3.risc.org.uk/education/resources
- EAL - https://cityofsanctuary.org/by-theme/esol/
- Syria: A Children’s Crisis (OXFAM) - https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/syria
Websites
- https://schools.cityofsanctuary.org/
- https://cityofsanctuary.org/
- The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has a number of reports about asylum and refugees. For example, ‘Working with refugee children’ (under 8): https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/working-refugee-children. Use the search function to find more.
- ‘The Education of Asylum-Seeker and Refugee Children’, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge (2005),
https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/arnot/AsylumReportFinal.pdf
This is a report into LEA and school values, policies and practices.
- ‘Supporting asylum seeker and refugee children’, an intervention study by the CfBT Education Trust (2005-06). https://www.nfer.ac.uk/publications/ARC01/ARC01.pdf
- National Association for Language Development in the Classroom (NALDIC) - Supporting EAL refugee children:
https://www.naldic.org.uk/eal-initial-teacher-education/resources/refugees/
https://www.naldic.org.uk/eal-teaching-and-learning/outline-guidance/ealrefugee/
- Refugee Council - https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/
- Human Cargo, Matthew Crampton (2016)
Matthew Crampton draws a parallel between British economic migrants in the C18 and C19 centuries and economic migrants crossing the Mediterranean today. There’s a focus on ordinary people’s stories and folk songs.
OTHER
- Humanity House - a museum in The Hague, Holland
- The Linking Network - linking schools and communities
- Welcome to the UK - Refugee Council
- Human Cargo by Caroline Moorehead (2005)
- Refugees by Brian Bilston - really worth reading!
- An Invisible Man - theatre and media arts company that makes work that makes a difference. See below:
