REFUGEE WEEK
19th
– 25th June
Refugee
Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and
resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary.
The theme this year is Compassion.
The
National Literacy Trust as part of the
GET ISLINGTON READING project
have
invited our children in Years 1 & 2 to a free
Virtual Author Event
Monday 19th June
A
Child Like You: online storytelling and drawing session with author
Na’ima
B Roberts
&
illustrator
Nadine
Kaadan
This
remarkable book
A Child Like You
Centres on the experiences of real-life activists and campaigners, explaining how these children demonstrated courage, determination and hope in the face of challenges.
Books in Library
We
will be sharing a selection of these books with children during this week’s library sessions.
On the Move: Poems About
Migration – Michael Rosen
Kind: A Book about kindness –
Axel Scheffler
All are welcome – Alexandra
Penfold
Refugee – Alan Gratz
The Windrush Child – Benjamin
Zephaniah
Paddington – Michael Bond
The Proudest Blue: the Story
of Hijab and Family – Ibtihaj Muhammad
My World Your World – Melanie
Walsh
Refugees and Homelands –
Louise Spilsbury & Toby Newsome
Here we are – Oliver Jeffers
