We all have the right to play Celebrate our right to play with a scavenger hunt. Each week we will share more bite size ideas for fun and creative ways to learn about human rights. What to do What are your favourite things to do? Make a list of what you need for these activities. A ball? Colouring pencils? A book? A toy? With a friend, swap lists. Look for all the things on your friend’s list. Who can find the most things? Amnesty’s education work is supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

Imagine is the theme for this year’s Refugee Week, 15-21 June, and here are three learning activities that will give your children an understanding of refugees. How would you welcome a newcomer into your community? Do you know about the rich heritage and diversity of people who call the UK ‘home’? As the Covid-19 pandemic separates families around the world, our local community plays an increasingly vital role in our daily lives – both as safety net and in contributing to our well-being. At this time, many of us are separated from loved ones. For refugees, this separation may have existed long before lockdown – and sadly may continue long after nations re-open their borders. Imagine if … … you have just moved into your home and neighbourhood. How would you feel? How would you want your new neighbours to welcome you? GET Paper, colour pencils DO Draw a map of your local area Include favourite places you would like to share with someone new to your area Include places they need to know about – like food shops, schools, libraries, playgrounds, doctors. Hello Everyone There are over 6,500 languages spoken around the world. Many of these are spoken in the UK alongside British Sign Language, English, Gaelic, Scots, Ulster Scots and Welsh. GET Paper, paint, colour pencils Google translate** DO Research how to say hello in as many different languages as you can find. Include languages that use different alphabets. Create a colourful poster of different ways to say hello. Display your poster in the window. **Freedom to choose ** People in the UK are a mixture of different nationalities and of different faiths and no faith. This can show in how we dress, where we worship, and how we live our daily lives. GET Google Jessica Souhami’s illustration of our freedom of belief DO Explore the illustration: How many ways can you find that people are expressing their religion through what they are wearing? Which buildings in the picture could be used for group prayer and worship? People can choose to pray and worship privately, in small groups and in large groups. Look at the picture again, where in the picture could people choose to pray and worship? WATCH A range of the Class Clips to learn about some of the different religions followed here in the UK (BBC Bitesize KS1 Religious Education Class Clips) More activities and virtual events on Refugee Week’s Imagine. Refugee Week is an annual UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. 15-21 June 2020. Share your artwork with us. Amnesty’s education work is supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

We all have the right to express ourselves. Make a flutter of stories to celebrate freedom of expression. Each week we will share more bite size ideas for fun and creative ways to learn about human rights. You can find more on our blog You’ll need Paper, paint or colour pencils, scissors, string or ribbon What to do Draw and cut out butterfly shapes. Attach a ribbon or string. Ask members of your family or your friends to tell you a story. It could be about themselves as children or it could be a story that a relative has told them. Write each story onto a butterfly and hang them up. Share your butterflies with us. Amnesty’s education work is supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

We all have the right to a family and to choose our friends. Celebrate our right to family and friends by making a People Tree. Each week we will share more bite size ideas for fun and creative ways to learn about human rights. You can find more on our blog You’ll need Paper, paint or colour pencils What to do Draw a tree and put your name on the trunk. On each branch write the name of someone who is close to you (you could include who you live with, your closest friends, members of your family). Draw leaves with the names of people they are closest to. This tree shows how we are also connected to people beyond our family. Share your trees with us by emailing Amnesty’s education work is supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

We all have the right to privacy. Celebrate our right to privacy by sending secret messages. Each week we will share more bite size ideas for fun and creative ways to learn about human rights. You’ll need Paper, lemon or onion juice, cotton bud or small paint brush, a light bulb What to do Write a secret message using the juice. Whoever receives it can reveal the message by holding it close to the hot light bulb. Amnesty’s education work is supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

We are all born free. Make a kite to celebrate our right to freedom. Each week we will share more bite size ideas for fun and creative ways to learn about human rights. You’ll need Paper, paint or colouring pencils, scissors, string or ribbon What to do Draw a kite shape and decorate it with a scene in which you feel free. Cut it out and add string or ribbon. If you let your kite go, where would it travel? Who might find it? Can you write or draw a story showing what might happen? Amnesty’s education work is supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

This resource is designed to support teachers to introduce human rights to children aged 3-5. It’s the perfect starting point to engage children in discussion and raise awareness of their own rights in a fun and interactive way. In First Steps there are five themed lesson plans each focusing on relevant articles proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights covering feelings, relationships and belonging, choices and voices, well-being and bodies. Activities include stories, games, music, art and photography.

Three short films of former child soldier Ishmael Beah telling his story to an audience of secondary school students in 2008. Ishmael was 13 when he became a child solider in Sierra Leone. Watch him tell his story then use activities to develop an empathetic response on which to build knowledge and understanding of this topic. This resource also includes a selection of extension activities that can be used as standalone lessons on the topic child soldiers, not related to Ishmael’s story. Search on Vimeo for In conversation with Ishmael Beah to find the clips.

This resource enables teachers to explore the human rights of sexual and gender minority groups with primary, secondary and FE students. The pack consists of six activities, a list of useful organisations, a summary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an information sheet on sexual orientation and gender identity and a list of curriculum links. This activity pack can be used with the following resources LGBTI Q&A and Teaching notes for ‘Two weeks with the Queen’ by Morris Gleitzman which can both be found by searching on our website.

Downloadable activities to accompany the award-winning book We Are All Born Free of thirty beautiful illustrations that interpret our human rights for ages 5+. We Are All Born Free can be ordered from the Amnesty shop .

In this session students will look at what the terms refugee, asylum seeker and migrant mean. They will explore reasons why people flee their homes and look at the experience of a refugee family’s journey from war in Syria to safety in the UK, and identify refugee rights. This is part of our set of Refugee Rights teaching resource materials.

Amnesty International UK’s Refugee Rights education pack has been written to support primary school teachers to explore refugee rights and migration with children and build a culture of understanding and welcome in their schools. The activities in this pack introduce some key concepts, including why people flee their homes and what it is like to arrive in a new country, and promote discussion about refugee rights and migration experiences. Students will also explore ways to make refugees feel welcome. Each activity can be adapted to individual classrooms and is suitable for one-off lessons or can be extended into a series of lessons. This is part of our set of Refugee Rights teaching resource materials.

Is the UK meeting its international obligations under the Refugee Convention? In this session students will learn about the rights and protections given to people seeking asylum and refugees under the UN Refugee Convention. They will explore examples of UK asylum policy and ask whether the government is meeting its international legal obligations to refugees. This is part of our set of Refugee Rights teaching resource materials.