As an accredited School of Sanctuary, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming place for all and a truly safe environment. We are a school that extends a welcome to everyone as equal. We have, and will continue to work with our children, staff and wider community to understand what it means to seek sanctuary.
Three key principles to becoming a School of Sanctuary can be found below.
Learn what it means to be seeking sanctuary.
Take positive action to embed concepts of welcome, safety and inclusion within your school and the wider community.
Share your vision and achievements – be proud!
We are very proud to have achieved this award and will continue to provide opportunities through our curriculum to learn about key issues surrounding sanctuary such as refuge, migration, diversity and inclusion.
Fun Food Chef - Middle Eastern Food
International Day of Education - We talked about sanctuary and feeling safe. We then shared items and places in school that make us feel safe.
We have easily accessible bilingual stories for EAL children in our school. Please refer to the following websites for more bilingual stories.
https://www.bilingual-picturebooks.org/en/home
worldstories.org.uk
FunDraising
As a school, we have raised funds this year for the Save the Children Turkey-Syria appeal and for Red Nose Day.
Events building up to refugee week
Visitor 09.06.23
Year 6 enjoyed a visit from Sayed, a special visitor from Afghanistan. He came to talk about what it meant to seek refuge and the what the process was like. The Year 6 children asked lots of great questions and learnt a lot about Sayed’s culture, too!
Webcasts 16.06.23
KS2 children attended ‘A day of welcome’ events on zoom. This opportunity was greatly recieved by pupils and staff. Year 3 and 4 looked at Dina Nayeri’s ‘The Waiting Place’ and our school received 40 copies of the book for participating. Year 5 and 6 looked at ‘When the Stars are Scattered’ by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson.
