WOODBERRY DOWN

Community Primary School

Our project on ‘Refugee Boy’ is an exciting and new approach to this inspiring story by Benjamin Zephaniah.

Year 6 read this text as a core book during the second half of the summer term. Their work will crossed into many areas, including literacy, geography, PSHCE, ICT and maths.

As they followed the central character’s journey in the text, they also followed it up in real life- going to Datchet, Windsor and other places on a mini school journey.

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As the family lay sleeping soldiers kicked down the door of the house and entered waving their rifles round erratically... The soldier who was in command went and stood so that his mouth was six inches away from Alem's father's ear and shouted.
'What kind of a man are you?'

Life is not safe for Alem. His father is Ethiopian and his mother Eritrean - and with both countries at war, he is welcome in neither place.

So his father does an astonishing thing, which at first appears callous, but is in fact the ultimate gift of love from a parent to their child...

With Alem - and his family - Benjamin Zephaniah has created a brave young man who despite all that happens to him, maintains a shining spirit of courage throughout.