“Community as a Superpower”: A celebration of how schools are working with refugee families (Webinar)
This webinar showcases how schools actively promote a sense of belonging for newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers.
The theme of Refugee Week 2025 is “Community as a Superpower” and in this webinar a panel of speakers will share their experiences and reflections around how schools and other settings are helping to nurture communities in which refuge-seeking learners feel a real sense of belonging.
Speakers from Schools of Sanctuary, Warwickshire Local Authority and a secondary school will consider practical examples of how they have achieved meaningful social inclusion, and will share their recommendations for other schools welcoming refugee and asylum-seeking learners.
After a short presentation from each of the panelists, Radha Chakraborty, Director of Trustees at The Bell Foundation, will pose questions from the audience to each of the speakers. If you would like to ask a question around social inclusion, please email webinar@bell-foundation.org.uk.
Host: Radha Chakraborty, Director of Trustees at The Bell Foundation.
Panel:
- Megan Greenwood, School Coordinator, City of Sanctuary UK;
- Nikki Ajibade, EAL Senior Lead, Warwickshire’s EMTAS Team;
- Claudia Lopez, EAL Raising Achievement Coordinator, Saint Gabriel’s College, Lambeth.
Who should register for the webinar?
- School leaders, including those responsible for EAL and inclusion;
- EAL Coordinators, or those responsible for EAL in their school;
- Pastoral leads and Year leaders.
Why you should register for this webinar:
- One-hour intensive session with Q&A
- Access to session recording;
- First to hear about future webinars and how to sign up.
If you have any questions that specifically relate to the webinar topic, which you would like answered during the live session, please send them to: webinar@bell-foundation.org.uk.
If the webinar is full, please complete the wait list form and you will be contacted if a place becomes available. Everyone on the wait list will be sent a copy of the webinar recording.
Ticket sales close 18 June 12:00 UK time.
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Hosted by Radha Chakraborty
Radha Chakraborty is a Director of Development Media International, an NGO that works on improving child health and cognitive outcomes across 14 countries in sub Saharan Africa. She is also Vice Chair of BookTrust, the UK’s largest children’s reading charity and a Non-Executive Director of Screen Yorkshire. After a mathematics degree at Imperial College Radha qualified as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor at PwC and worked at Shell before becoming a partner at Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson) where she led one of the GB lines of business. She was also Operations Director at Comic Relief.
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