What do you see in in the photo? What is happening, where are they, what do you notice about the group? Who do you think these people are and why are they together?
In this photo we see Erin and her family. Erin says, "I'm English. I'm a mum. I'm white, British and proud of my heritage."
What does that all mean, why do you think she is saying that?
"I'm the mum to over 15 unaccompanied asylum seeking children."
What does that mean? How can she be a mum to 15 children?
There are no children in the photo so where are they?
This photo is from last Christmas- "7 of my boys, all family, all loved"
How can they all be family?
Erin talks about how some of her boys had very difficult journeys to get to England as refugees. Many did not want to leave their homes but they had to leave to be safe. She talks describes how many of the boys faced hardship and struggles, but now they are safe and feel loved as part of her family.
What is a refugee/ asylum seeker?
Why is being a refugee hard?
What kind of struggles do you think some of her boys faced?
What do you think the boys needed most of all from Erin?
Erin says some people don't understand about refugees and think they are all the same. She says, "There are always bad apples in every community - but that doesn't give anyone the right to condemn a whole group of people."
What does Erin mean by that?
Erin says, "Still, my boys smile, still they call me mum, still we celebrate Christmas, birthdays, EID, GCSE results, and new jobs- together."
Christmas and Eid are from different religions so why are this family celebrating both?
How can you celebrate two religious festivals in the same family?
Can you celebrate a religious festival if you have a different faith? How does that work?
"As one of my lads once said, when someone asked how we can be a family: "It's ok - we all have different dads."
Erin says, "That's England too."
Why do you think someone asked how they could be a family?
What do you think of the response from one of the lads?
Why do you think Erin says, "That's England too."
What can we learn from Erin and her family?
Which British value is this about?
Happy Christmas from me!
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