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Refugees and migration teaching resources

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  • Understanding people’s experience of migration (ages 16-19)

    Age:

    16-19, ks4

    Type:

    Activities

    Subjects:

    PSHE, SMSC, Citizenship

    Topics:

    Kindness, Refugees and migration

    Teaching resource to help students develop empathy and understanding towards people with migration experience. Suitable for ages 16 to 19, key stage 4.

  • A refugee family walks past Turkish Red Crescent emergency relief lorries, part of the humanitarian aid operation supporting those affected by the conflict in Ukraine.

    Understanding peoples experience of migration

    Age:

    10-15, ks2, ks3.

    Type:

    Activities

    Subjects:

    PSHE, SMSC, Citizenship

    Topics:

    Kindness, Refugees and migration

    Teaching resource to help students develop empathy and understanding towards people with migration experience. Suitable for ages 10 to 16, key stage 2 to 4.

  • An Afghani father holding his two toddlers

    The Afghanistan crisis

    Age:

    11-19

    Type:

    Quick activities

    Subjects:

    PSHE, Tutor time

    Topics:

    Conflict, Newsthink, Refugees and migration

    Secondary teaching resource exploring the 2021 Afghanistan crisis. Have conversations with students to examine humanitarian issues and their impact on people.

  • A family of refugees is reunited at the airport

    Refugees: Our shared future

    Age:

    11-16

    Type:

    Lesson plan, video

    Subjects:

    Citizenship, SMSC

    Topics:

    Refugees and migration, Humanitarianism and the Red Cross

    Citizenship teaching resource about refugees and migration to help learners see refugees as “someone like me” and build respect and empathy.

  • Refugees volunteering at the British Red Cross Refugee Services in Leicester.

    Refugees: Identity

    Age:

    11-19

    Type:

    Lesson plan, images

    Subjects:

    PSHE, Citizenship, Geography

    Topics:

    Refugees and migration

    Free secondary PSHE, Citizenship and Geography lesson plan exploring a refugee’s story using the images and text from a comic book.

  • A family of Ukranian refugees reunited.

    Refugees: Celebrate

    Age:

    14-19

    Type:

    Lesson plan, images

    Subjects:

    Citizenship, PSHE, Art and design

    Topics:

    Refugees and migration

    Art, Citizenship and PSHE teaching resource which celebrates the contributions of refugees to art and culture, and helps build empathy

  • A Sudanese mother and her children who have fled from the conflict in their own country as refugees in Chad.

    Refugees through time

    Age:

    11-16

    Type:

    Lesson plan

    Subjects:

    PSHE, Tutor time

    Topics:

    Newsthink, Refugees and migration

    Educational teaching resource considering the shared humanity of refugees and migration through history. Suitable for secondary school students aged 11 to 16.

  • Polish Red Cross volunteer with glasses holds a coat and blanket, speaking to a woman in a winter coat and hat. Behind them, women and children in winter clothing hold suitcases, among 420 people who left Ukraine.

    Newsthink: Ukraine

    Age:

    11-19

    Type:

    Quick activities

    Subjects:

    PSHE, tutor time

    Topics:

    Newsthink, conflict, refugees and migration

    Examine and discuss the 2022 Ukraine crisis using a photo based activity. This teaching resources is suitable for secondary school students Key Stages 3 and 4.

  • Inside a big warm and sunny tent, exhausted women and young children sit on mats and chairs. Two Sudanese Red Crescent volunteers give out supplies while everyone waits calmly.

    Newsthink: conflict in Sudan

    Age:

    10-19

    Type:

    Quick activity

    Subjects:

    Tutor time, PSHE

    Topics:

    Conflict, humanitarianism and the Red Cross, Newsthink, refugees and migration

    A teaching resource to explore the crisis in Sudan through a humanitarian lens. Suitable for the top year of primary and all of secondary (10-19 years old).

  • Polina sits on a sofa with her daughter-in-law Karyna, who holds her eighteen-month-old son Makar on her lap, while Mylana sits beside them in soft natural light in Tony’s house in Derbyshire.

    Migration to Britain

    Age:

    11-16

    Type:

    Lesson plan

    Subjects:

    PSHE, Tutor time

    Topics:

    Refugees and migration, Newsthink

    Educational resource to help secondary school students (11 to 16) build empathy and understanding toward migrants/refugees risking their lives to reach the UK

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