How to use the poster

Use the poster as a focus for discussion. Look at all the items in the poster with the children.

• What can the children recognise?
• What is familiar to them?
• Where have they seen pictures like this before? Have they seen refugees on the television?
• What can they see in the picture that looks different or unusual to them?
• Is there anything in the picture that they do not recognise?
• Make reference to the story and/or the assembly.
• Why did the refugees have to leave their homes?
• What would be difficult about being a refugee?

CAFOD provides food, shelter and clean water in refugee camps like the one in the picture. CAFOD is currently helping people in Afghanistan who have been forced to leave their homes.

Early Years

• Discuss the poster with the whole class.
• Ask the children to tell you what they can see in the poster. Discuss all the different items they can see and name.
• Using the cards on the left hand side of the page, ask the children to match the word and picture to the picture on the poster. Do this as a whole class with the poster in the centre. Then ask the children to work in groups of 2-4 on the same activity.
• Extension activity: for those children who can read the words cut the pictures off and ask them to match just the words to the pictures.
• Role play: using blankets, cooking pots and any other relevant items ask the children to act out the lives of refugees. Allow them to explore the elements within the poster.
• Discuss what they have learnt about refugees.
• Ask them to draw pictures of a refugee camp.

Key stage 1

• Discuss the poster as a class.
• Using photocopies of the poster, ask pupils to prepare speech and thought bubbles to add to the picture. Stick them onto the pictures.
• Ask some children to explain their speech-bubbles to the rest of the class.
• Get the children to write stories about the people they can see in the poster. Remind them to describe say how the people are feeling
• Using photocopies of the poster, ask pupils to write speech- and thought-bubbles to add to the picture. Stick them onto the picture. Ask some children to explain their speech and thought bubbles to the rest of the class.

Key stage 2

Discuss the poster as a class.

Ask pupils to research refugees in the media. Get them to cut out pictures or stories about refugees from the newspapers or bring in video clips from the news.

Discussion points:

• How are refugees portrayed in the news?
• Are the images of refugees positive or negative?
• Why do you think the media shows refugees in this way?

Use the CAFOD website to find out more about what CAFOD is doing to help the situation for refugees in Afghanistan.

• Does CAFOD's work support the view of refugees in the news or does CAFOD give a different perspective?

Using this research, pupils should prepare a short presentation about CAFOD's work to give to the rest of the class.