Supporting Refugee and Asylum Seeker pupils

Resources for supporting pupils seeking sanctuary

We have compiled a list of potential resources that may be of interest for supporting pupils seeking sanctuary in your school:

Background Reading

How to support transitions to further education for refugee young people in the UK

Thirty years of NALDIC: refugees and asylum-seeking children

CPD for School Staff

Healing Classrooms Online Training

Parent Partnership Resources

Entitlements to NHS Services for migrants in England

Refugee Education UK Welcome pack

Bell Foundation Information Leaflet: About the English Education System: Primary Schools (English but also available online in a variety of other languages)

Bell Foundation Information Leaflet: About the English Education System: Secondary Schools (English but also available online in a variety of other languages)

Bell Foundation Information Leaflet: Helping Children Learn (English but also available online in a variety of other languages)

Our Coventry Refugee and Migrant Support

Carriers of Hope help with school uniform

Induction

Refugee activity pack for KS2,3 and 4

Education Above All 'My Host Country' Induction Booklets for 6-7 year olds (English), 8-10 year olds (English) and 11-16 year olds (English)

International Organization for Migration Welcome to the United Kingdom Journals for ages 5-9, 10-13 and 14-18

PSHE Resources

Twinkl Refugees KS2 PowerPoint and Discussion Pack and other refugee themed resources

British Red Cross Refugees and Migration teaching resources

Stories of Hope and Home: Access to people with lived experience of the UK asylum system making visits into schools

A Day of Welcome

Refugee Week

Reading and Teaching Resources

Story Books UK (online stories in home languages)

WorldStories (online stories in home languages )

Mantra Lingua (purchasable dual language story books in home languages)

Twinkl (paid for website but includes EAL resources with home language translations such as survival English fans and so on)

The Coventry Schools Library Service offers the opportunity to loan dual language books and books on the theme of sanctuary

Mental Health

Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre (CRMC) Advice Team

Referral information for the NHS Refugee and Wellbeing Service

Extra Curricular Support

Positive Youth Foundation Involved: developed to support the integration of newly arrived refugee and asylum seeking young people.

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