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City of Sanctuary: how Paddington Bear is helping pupils welcome refugees

He fled an earthquake, stowed away on a ship and arrived in London illegally with nothing but an old bush hat and a small battered suitcase. Paddington Bear and his story may now be more than 50 years old, but the marmalade-loving Peruvian immigrant has found a whole new resonance in the current refugee debate.
The story of how the Brown family of Windsor Gardens sheltered a homeless migrant, as detailed in author Michael Bond’s books, is being used in schools around the country to help primary pupils understand why people leave their homes and the difficulties they face. Rose McCarthy, co-ordinator of the Schools of Sanctuary scheme, an arm of one of the Guardian and Observer’s Christmas Appeal charities, City of Sanctuary, said: “Paddington works really well for young children.”
This weekend Birmingham became the latest city to join more than 60 boroughs, towns and cities across the UK and Ireland which have now embraced the City of Sanctuary movement. It is a grassroots network that began in Sheffield and is committed to creating a culture of hospitality and goodwill to refugees fleeing war and persecution through making links across communities and professions.
“It’s about building relationships, people meeting people, embedding a humane approach,” said McCarthy, at an event in Liverpool where the scheme’s latest members were receiving their hard-won School of Sanctuary certificates – schools such as Pleasant Street Primary, where pupils speak 17 languages and where, teacher Blanca Escalera says proudly: “We define ourselves as the world in one school.”
The teachers there have been working hard to help their pupils learn about refugees and to welcome pupils from asylum-seeking families and help them adjust to British classrooms. They also aim to help parents understand what is expected of them and to assist the children of families with nothing to acquire uniforms and books and to make friends.
There have been art exhibitions, tea parties, pen pal schemes, cookery days, talks and reading groups, mentoring schemes, action groups and fundraising from Dublin to Gateshead, Swansea to Stirling, as ordinary people have formed their own groups, under the City of Sanctuary umbrella which offers them advice, support and resources while allowing their own ideas to flourish.
There are three simple principles to becoming one of now more than 100 schools of sanctuary, both primary and secondary and those with and without pupils from refugee families: “Learn about what it means to seek sanctuary; take positive action to embed concepts of warm welcome and safety within the school; and share the visions and the achievements of pupils and teachers,” said McCarthy.
Alan Thomas, chair of City of Sanctuary, says the movement’s goal is “to see welcome for refugees become the norm across society”. And where better to start than in schools.
In Liverpool, four pupils of Roscoe Primary are lining up to explain what they have been learning in their classrooms since their school joined the growing movement.
Owen, Esther, Sara and Lola give little speeches and proudly sport their “champions” lanyards, which mark them out at school as buddies whom other children can approach if they feel isolated, bullied or just need a little bit of help or reassurance in the playground and corridors.
Watched over proudly by their deputy head, John Ardrey, Owen reads his favourite bit of a Martin Luther King speech that he memorised by choice, Esther talks about what they learned during black history month, Lola talks about painting butterflies from Greece and Sara explains that she is from Iraq and that when she was made a champion “my family said Allah would be proud of me because Muslims have to help others”.
Visibly proud of his pupils’ efforts, Ardrey explains how for Roscoe Primary, becoming a School of Sanctuary means that not only are they helping all their pupils understand the plight of those who have had to flee their homelands but they are also making sure there is a warm welcome for those pupils who are themselves refugees – children like Sara who have arrived in this Liverpool school from far-off war zones. It’s hard to believe Sara spoke no English when she arrived at Roscoe just over a year ago.
Headteacher Amanda Anders explained how the school had a special link with Liverpool’s past. “We are named afterWilliam Roscoe and we are proud to be associated with him. Roscoe was a self-taught philanthropist who fought against the slave trade at a time when many merchants in Liverpool were making a fortune from the trade. We feel he would approve of our School of Sanctuary status.”
She says that the school has seen the demographic of the area it serves change considerably in the last decade. Ten years ago the school was predominantly white working class. It then had an intake of mainly Polish pupils and now serves and educates pupils speaking languages including Albanian, German, Polish, Yoruba, Georgian, Arabic, Italian, Bulgarian, Romanian.
“These pupils and their families add so much to our school and its community,” says Anders. “We feel that Mr Roscoe would be proud that, some 185 years after his death, the school after which he is named is welcoming and educating people from the global village. As the great man said: ‘We must strictly conform to the eternal principles of right and justice. To desert those principles when a particular occasion puts them to the test, is to exclude ourselves, by our own act, from the pale of civilised society, and to render ourselves, as it were, outlaws to the rest of the world.’”
It is perhaps a sentiment that Paddington Bear might raise a paw to. Although he found a loving home along with a warm duffel coat and Wellington boots to cope with British winters, his creator Michael Bond never lost sight of the issues the refugee faced.
In his 2008 book, Paddington Here and Now – on the recommended School of Sanctuary reading list – Paddington’s refugee status becomes an issue and there was “a bit of a kerfuffle” when he was taken for police questioning. As Bond explained, there was “a side of Paddington the Browns don’t really understand at all: what it’s like to be a refugee, not to be in your own country”.
Thanks to City of Sanctuary, that understanding is now being passed from school to school, from town to town, spreading like marmalade across the UK.

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Thành phố của khu bảo tồn: làm thế nào Paddington gấu giúp các em học sinh chào đón người tị nạnÔng chạy một trận động đất, xếp lại đi trên một con tàu và đến London bất hợp pháp với không có gì nhưng một hat bush cũ và một va li nhỏ bị đánh đập. Paddington gấu và câu chuyện của ông bây giờ có thể là nhiều hơn 50 tuổi, nhưng yêu thương marmalade di dân Peru đã tìm thấy một cộng hưởng hoàn toàn mới trong các cuộc tranh luận tị nạn hiện tại.Câu chuyện về làm thế nào họ Windsor Gardens, nâu che chở một migrant vô gia cư, như chi tiết trong cuốn sách của tác giả Michael Bond, đang được sử dụng trong các trường học trên khắp đất nước để giúp em học sinh tiểu học hiểu tại sao mọi người rời khỏi nhà của họ và những khó khăn mà họ phải đối mặt. Tăng McCarthy, co-ordinator của chương trình trường học khu bảo tồn, một nhánh của một trong người giám hộ và quan sát viên của tổ chức từ thiện Giáng sinh kháng cáo, thành phố của khu bảo tồn, nói: "Paddington làm việc thực sự tốt cho thanh thiếu niên."Cuối tuần này Birmingham trở thành thành phố mới nhất để tham gia hơn 60 quận đô thị và thành phố trên khắp Vương Quốc Anh và Ireland mà bây giờ đã chấp nhận sự chuyển động của thành phố nơi tôn nghiêm. Nó là một mạng lưới cơ sở bắt đầu ở Sheffield và cam kết tạo ra một nền văn hóa của sự hiếu khách và thiện chí cho các người tị nạn chạy trốn chiến tranh và khủng bố thông qua việc liên kết trên cộng đồng và ngành nghề."Nó về xây dựng mối quan hệ, người gặp gỡ người, nhúng một cách tiếp cận nhân đạo," nói McCarthy, tại một sự kiện tại Liverpool nơi thành viên mới nhất của chương trình đã nhận được của giấy chứng nhận học khu bảo tồn hard-won-trường như dễ chịu Street chính, nơi học sinh ngôn ngữ 17 và ở đâu, giáo viên Blanca Escalera tự hào nói: "Chúng tôi xác định bản thân như thế giới trong một trường."Các giáo viên có đã làm việc chăm chỉ để giúp các em học sinh tìm hiểu về người tị nạn và để chào đón học sinh từ các tìm kiếm tị nạn gia đình và giúp họ thích nghi với Anh lớp học. Họ cũng nhằm mục đích để giúp đỡ cha mẹ hiểu những gì được mong đợi của họ và hỗ trợ trẻ em của các gia đình với không có gì để có được đồng phục và sách và làm cho bạn bè.Đã có triển lãm nghệ thuật, trà bên, đề án bút pal, nấu ăn ngày, cuộc đàm phán và đọc nhóm, chương trình kèm cặp, nhóm hành động và gây quỹ từ Dublin để Gateshead, Swansea để Stirling, như những người bình thường đã thành lập nhóm riêng của họ, dưới sự bảo trợ của thành phố nơi tôn nghiêm mà cung cấp cho họ lời khuyên, hỗ trợ và các nguồn lực trong khi cho phép những ý tưởng riêng của họ để phát triển mạnh.Có ba nguyên tắc đơn giản để trở thành một trong bây giờ nhiều hơn 100 trường của khu bảo tồn, cả tiểu học và trung học và những người có và không có học sinh từ các gia đình người tị nạn: "Tìm hiểu về ý nghĩa của nó để tìm kiếm khu bảo tồn; thực hiện các hành động tích cực để nhúng các khái niệm của chào đón nồng nhiệt và an toàn trong nhà trường; và chia sẻ các tầm nhìn và thành tích của học sinh và giáo viên,"nói McCarthy.Alan Thomas, chair of City of Sanctuary, says the movement’s goal is “to see welcome for refugees become the norm across society”. And where better to start than in schools.In Liverpool, four pupils of Roscoe Primary are lining up to explain what they have been learning in their classrooms since their school joined the growing movement.Owen, Esther, Sara and Lola give little speeches and proudly sport their “champions” lanyards, which mark them out at school as buddies whom other children can approach if they feel isolated, bullied or just need a little bit of help or reassurance in the playground and corridors.Watched over proudly by their deputy head, John Ardrey, Owen reads his favourite bit of a Martin Luther King speech that he memorised by choice, Esther talks about what they learned during black history month, Lola talks about painting butterflies from Greece and Sara explains that she is from Iraq and that when she was made a champion “my family said Allah would be proud of me because Muslims have to help others”.Visibly proud of his pupils’ efforts, Ardrey explains how for Roscoe Primary, becoming a School of Sanctuary means that not only are they helping all their pupils understand the plight of those who have had to flee their homelands but they are also making sure there is a warm welcome for those pupils who are themselves refugees – children like Sara who have arrived in this Liverpool school from far-off war zones. It’s hard to believe Sara spoke no English when she arrived at Roscoe just over a year ago.Headteacher Amanda Anders explained how the school had a special link with Liverpool’s past. “We are named afterWilliam Roscoe and we are proud to be associated with him. Roscoe was a self-taught philanthropist who fought against the slave trade at a time when many merchants in Liverpool were making a fortune from the trade. We feel he would approve of our School of Sanctuary status.”
She says that the school has seen the demographic of the area it serves change considerably in the last decade. Ten years ago the school was predominantly white working class. It then had an intake of mainly Polish pupils and now serves and educates pupils speaking languages including Albanian, German, Polish, Yoruba, Georgian, Arabic, Italian, Bulgarian, Romanian.
“These pupils and their families add so much to our school and its community,” says Anders. “We feel that Mr Roscoe would be proud that, some 185 years after his death, the school after which he is named is welcoming and educating people from the global village. As the great man said: ‘We must strictly conform to the eternal principles of right and justice. To desert those principles when a particular occasion puts them to the test, is to exclude ourselves, by our own act, from the pale of civilised society, and to render ourselves, as it were, outlaws to the rest of the world.’”
It is perhaps a sentiment that Paddington Bear might raise a paw to. Although he found a loving home along with a warm duffel coat and Wellington boots to cope with British winters, his creator Michael Bond never lost sight of the issues the refugee faced.
In his 2008 book, Paddington Here and Now – on the recommended School of Sanctuary reading list – Paddington’s refugee status becomes an issue and there was “a bit of a kerfuffle” when he was taken for police questioning. As Bond explained, there was “a side of Paddington the Browns don’t really understand at all: what it’s like to be a refugee, not to be in your own country”.
Thanks to City of Sanctuary, that understanding is now being passed from school to school, from town to town, spreading like marmalade across the UK.