Explore new lessons and activities provided by our partners, including the British Red Cross, Good Chance Theatre, and World of Languages, Languages of the World. These resources offer diverse perspectives on welcoming refugees, helping you bring valuable insights into your classroom.
WoLLoW: Community as a SuperPower
This lesson is designed for primary school pupils from years 3 to 6. It explores the meaning of the word “community” and how it means different things to each of us. By drawing on the endearing story of the Moomins the lesson asks pupils to consider their own community/communities; how we can create a sense of community and how we can welcome new members into our community. As with all WoLLoW lessons, it touches on history, geography, language and literacy, as well as celebrating our linguistically diverse classrooms.
For more WoLLoW resources please visit https://theworldoflanguages.co.uk/. Our vast range of primary and secondary resources are free and used in hundreds of schools around globally.
✏️ Click here to download an editable PowerPoint version of the resource with embedded multimedia and additional teacher guidance.
🏴 Click here to view this resource in Welsh
Imperial War Museum: The Forgotten Belgian Refugees of the First World War
In this lesson for pupils in years 3-6, pupils will learn about Belgian refugees in World War I, develop empathy through their stories, compare their experiences to modern refugees, and discuss why some refugee groups receive more attention than others. Resources include an editable PowerPoint with embedded multimedia and additional teacher guidance.
British Red Cross: Understanding people’s experience of migration
Activities to help children and young people develop empathy and understanding towards people with migration experience. Explore why refugees flee their home and what it is like to arrive somewhere new.
AgeS: 10-16, KS2, KS3, KS4
Languages: Available in English or Welsh
Amnesty International: Refugee Rights
- Refugee Rights Primary Pack
This pack helps primary teachers explore refugee rights and migration with children. It covers why people flee, what it’s like to arrive in a new country, and ways to welcome refugees. - Secondary Refugee Rights Resource
This resource explains the terms refugee, asylum seeker, and migrant. It covers the reasons for fleeing home and follows a Syrian family’s journey to the UK, exploring refugee rights and experiences. - Further Education Refugee Rights Resource
This resource focuses on the rights of asylum seekers and refugees under the UN Refugee Convention. It looks at UK asylum policies and examines whether the government is fulfilling its international legal obligations.
A Day of Welcome lesson for Primary Schools
Explore ways to welcome refugees by learning greetings in different languages and creating maps and guidebooks to help newcomers feel at home in their community.
British Red Cross Workshop: Empathy plus migration
A workshop to learn about the experience of migration and the reasons why people may have to leave home. Students will focus on developing empathy by putting themselves in the shoes of others and engaging in stories of migration. The workshop helps students challenge assumptions about migrants, asylum seekers and refugees.
Time length: 60 minutes
Group size: 5 to 35
Delivery: Online, face-to-face (eligible groups only)
Good Chance Theatre Resources: From Here On – Routes to Safety from the Kindertransport to Today
Aimed at Key Stages 3–4, this one-hour lesson introduces students to the history of the Kindertransport and experiences of child refugees today. It encourages empathy, critical thinking, and discussions on children’s rights to safety through multiple resources, including film clips from Good Chance and Gecko Theatre’s ground-breaking theatre performance “From Here On”, worksheets, extension activities and an optional assembly plan.
Largo, a Short Film
by Slick Films & Plan Nine Pictures
Screening: Friday 13 June at 09:30, followed by a Webinar and Q&A
Join us for a screening of the powerful new short film, Largo – The story of Musa, a ten-year-old Syrian refugee who longs to reunite with his family and builds a boat to sail home. Largo offers a story of resilience, belonging, and hope, and the resources support schools in nurturing empathy, celebrating diversity and encouraging thoughtful civic participation. With powerful performances from Tamsin Greig, Kevin McNally and newcomer Zach Elsokari.
The screening will be followed by a poetry webinar for KS2 students (10:00 to 10:45) led by award-winning poet Dr. Inua Ellams, guiding children to express their own stories of identity and home through written word.
Screening Details
Please note the ‘Watch the FIlm’ link will only be available between 11-20 June 2025
Password to view on Vimeo: Largo_schools
University of Derby & The British Academy: All Aboard the Mayflower
Aimed at Key Stages 2–3 (and adaptable for KS1), this lesson takes students back to England in 1608, when a group of people were being persecuted by the King and the church because they wanted to practice their religion in a different way. Students follow the story as the group set off on a long journey to find freedom and safety in a new home.
In addition to all of the new resources for 2025, we have a huge range of teaching resources for all age groups in our archive which you are welcome to use or adapt: DofW Archive