Cultural Education Packs
Our education projects are helping young people understand who refugees are, where they have come from and how they may feel.
Isolation
Anxiety
Depression
Children with refugee status often feel isolated and excluded and have a higher prevalence of mental health difficulties.
However, schools that actively encourage support systems and inclusion programmes are consistently shown to improve pupil well-being and reduce bullying.
Since our inception when we started offering support and assistance to refugees arriving in the UK, it became apparent very quickly how significantly children are impacted when being forced to leave their homes and countries in search of safety.
Research has shown time and time again that children with refugee status often feel isolated and excluded and have a higher prevalence of anxiety and depression when compared to the general population. However, schools that encourage support systems and inclusion programmes are consistently shown to improve pupil well-being and reduce bullying.
It is these statistics and our personal experience, that has driven us to design and launch our education packs for schools.
Our Afghanistan and Ukraine education packs are now available to download for free. Each pack has been produced with teachers for teachers and is aimed at pupils aged four to eleven.
Each pack contains 17 activities, including geography, maths and history. Each pack can be run over half a day or as individual activities lasting from 15 minutes to an hour.
The packs were initially aimed at schools that had children with refugee status from Afghanistan and Ukraine within their pupil cohorts, with the aim of encouraging inclusion and offering an opportunity for children to showcase to their peers, with a real sense of pride, the countries they had left to come to the UK.
However, time and time again we see how they also benefit groups and schools that don’t have refugees within their cohorts but who want to actively encourage important discussions in their classrooms.
The packs were launched at Emsworth Primary School in 2022 and have been met with great enthusiasm. Headteacher, Mrs Laura Newton comments; ‘We were straight away impressed with the attention to detail that had gone into the Education Packs, it was evident they had been developed with input from education professionals… and the packs were met with praise from all my members of staff..’
If you wish to hear more about our education packs, please get in touch.
Promoting inclusion & pride
We were straight away impressed with the attention to detail that had gone into the Education Packs, it was evident they had been developed with input from education professionals… and the packs were met with praise from all my members of staff.
Mrs Laura Newton
Headteacher, Emsworth Primary School
