On the 20th March 2015 St Vincent’s had a Refugee Day. We started the day with a whole school assembly; we invited a lady called Paulette along to speak to us. She came as a refugee from West Africa and was an asylum seeker in the UK for 7 years and 4 months. She had to leave her family and her son behind when she left her country.
Some children dramatised a scene from Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah
Year 4’s evaluation and feedback from Refugee Day
Year 6’s evaluation and feedback from Refugee Day
Year 2’s evaluation and feedback from Refugee Day
During the day we had workshops in class looking at facts about refugees, we thought about what we would take if we had to leave home quickly and we took part in a meditation. At the end of our session we had to think about what we liked during the day, or any feelings we had and write them on a large piece of sugar paper.
