Whether you’re creating a display showcasing your favourite books, asking students to write book reviews to encourage others to pick books to learn more about people seeking sanctuary, World Book Day is a great opportunity to be fun, creative and an easy way to raise awareness about sanctuary within your school community and beyond!
See how one school did it in this fabulous document found here!
Books
- A full list of books can be found here
- School Reading List have a huge range of books for each year group and genre from welcome & empathy to critical thinking & refugees. You can see their Migration & Refugees page here.
- 35 children’s books that teach empathy and kindness
- An article from the Big Issue: about using Paddington as part of a lesson plan on refugees – with a link to the lesson plan
- Alpha: Teacher’s notes on this graphic novel. Amnesty International (14+)
- The Bone Sparrow: Amnesty International (11+)
- A downloadable book list to encourage younger reader
- Books and novels on refugee and asylum seeker issues (from Refugee Council Australia). Scroll down for children’s books.
- Key Sanctuary-themed texts for each primary year group
- KS2 Refugees and Immigration booklist
- Schools of Sanctuary Ireland Reading List 2023 (KS1-4)
- Sanctuary book list
- Sanctuary book list from EYFS to young adult
- Transitions – a brilliant comic aimed at upper KS2 and KS3
Books with Resource Packs
- Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah (teacher notes and activities from Amnesty International for older students)
- Resource pack about the play of the book, West Yorkshire Playhouse
- Sami’s Candle activity book by Rhian Voyce
- 12 books
- Boy, Everywhere by A.M.Dassu with a teaching pack and resources from the publisher, Lee & Low Books.
- Kind – Alison Green with a teaching resource pack included
Why not start a sanctuary shelf in your staff room?
