2. Tell a child a story from another country

In the RME Department of our school we did a lesson on refugees with all our core classes which involved reading a section of the book "Refugee Boy" by Benjamin Zephaniah - kids loved it.

Read to a class. Then painted ceramics based ib story

People took the Paddington Bear story to school, and it was read to each class, or in Assembly in many schools

We listened to Out of the Way! Out of the Way by Uma Krishnaswami/y. We talked about India and we made our own art-work like in the book.

When I read the story to the girl I tutor, her eyes lit up. We talked about the story itself and she had questions about the cultural differences between herself and the characters. What a great learning opportunity!

i have raed a book of differety lagrsh

We read a story from Punjab

We had storytellers come in and tell us two stories from other countries. We found it very entertaining.

A lady told me a story that came from africa and 85 children wre mistening to it.

Mummy read me Grandfather's Story Cloth by Linda Gerdner and Sarah Langford

Went into the Globe Academy and gave a talk to around 50 KS2 schoolchildren about who refugees are and what issues and problems they face.

have told my son leo a story from Mali.

My year group are having a refugee week this week covering many different simple acts

I told my my cousin a story from another country

We had a spanish guest read us a story in spanish. It was fun trying to guess some of the words in English :)

As a class we read some of the stories from other countries.

I shared a story with my class 4C. The story was from Nigeria. It was called 'Why the Sky Is Far Away.'

IN assembly to the whole school. Used the story from Afghanistan

We will have a storytellor come in to the school all week and work with our Year 7 students in the library.

They used traditional Somali and Arabic music and story to look at migration and refuge.

Told my little twin cousins stories about Sierra Leone refugees. Not exactly a bedtime story but important for them to have knowledge on such issues.

we sang "Lean on me".

Lots of questions about the story "The Arrival"

We read poems written by children that are refugees. We talked about how each poem made us feel and what images they brought to our minds.

Here's a dramatised recording of the story Anansi and Turtle, from Soundart Radio in Devon. It's been adapted and performed by 3 children aged 7 - 12.
see http://rwradio.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/anansi-and-turtle/ and click on the link.

Children really enjoyed the story and discussed how the characters felt.

I told my five year-old daughter the story of Panansi and Turtle from Nigeria. 1st we found Nigeria on her world map and talked a little bit about different countries and different coloured skins. We have friends from Ghana so we talked about them a bit. Then I read the story - she really enjoyed it and asked me to read another one soon. She is a bit young for some of the stories as the logic and morals are sometimes beyond her but I'm glad I read it to her and I will have a look at the other stories to see if any others are appropriate too. x

It went really well i got an Africa story and changed it a bit so it linked with there new teddies, Solie, Lizzie and Ziggy. All by the way were zebras. and i also included an morel:
just because some one might be bigger or stronger, brains and teamwork will go triumpfant.

It's not quite what's suggested but I posted to the Beeston Quakers blog suggesting that three well-known stories can be read in the light of Refugee Week. See http://beestonquakers.blogspot.com/

my ranger guide unit told African stories in our Ubuntu Reading Tent as part of our Change the World project.
We've also made African snacks

I performed over Skype a story from Serbia to my nephew in the US, and he looved it.

I did this at school

I performed over Skype a story from Serbia to my nephew in the US, and he looved it.