EAL coordinator Lois Ashcroft shares her school’s experience of welcoming refugee children from Ukraine and shares some tips on how to better support them As the war continues in Ukraine, Ukrainian children continue to seek… Read more → Continue Reading →
Refugees and displaced people
How best to support children from a refugee background is a concern shared by educators with the increasing number of children arriving in schools from a variety of different ethnolinguistic backgrounds both in terms of… Read more → Continue Reading →
Imagine being a Syrian or Iraqi teenager speaking only a few words of English, arriving in Australia as part of a refugee resettlement programme and starting your first day at school. Only, to your surprise,… Read more → Continue Reading →
Chris Michael tells us about his live stage show that reimagines the Charlie Chaplin silent film classic, The Immigrant, for a live theatre audience. Chris hopes that this show will demonstrate that theatre is for… Read more → Continue Reading →
Jane Townsend has worked with asylum seeker children and their families in Gloucester for many years. In this post she describes an initiative that she set up with the county council to help social workers,… Read more → Continue Reading →