1. Critical Thinking Charter Primary School Year 6
Key Question: What makes our culture what it is, and should that shape the decisions we make about the future?

2. Questions which arose:
Who are refugees and why did they leave their homes?
Where do they come from?
What do they want?
What kind of people are the refugees?
How can we find out more about the families?
Whose job is it to look after refugees?
Why don’t some people like them?
What are they eating?
Why do they want to come to the UK?

3. Our starting point: Why do refugees want to come to the UK?
CLASS DISCUSSION
Do ALL refugees want to come to the UK?
What makes Britain appealing to all kinds of visitors?

4. What makes Britain?
Landmarks
Crumpets and jam
Kindness of the people
Freedom
The Queen
Our welcome
Religious freedom
The right to vote
Arts and music
Expression

5. What makes a person British?
Their understanding nature
Living here
Working in Britain
Having British parents
Having a home here
Someone who feels at home here
The feeling of belonging to Britain wherever they are in the world.

6. To whom does Britain belong?
Everyone who lives here.
People who work here.
The Queen
God
Everyone who wants it to
The people of the world.
It’s just a concept
People who already live here.

7. Our first decision
‘So we can know what to do in the future we really need to know about Britain today, and to do that we should look at what has happened to make Britain how it is today. We need to look at history.’ E age 10 ‘Our culture is lots of bricks like in a wall. We should look at how the country was built to see how to keep it strong in the future.’ B age 10

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We looked carefully at the structures which surround us.
We asked whether we all see things the same way.

12. Next Step: What makes someone decide to leave their home?

14. What are they thinking?
Now that the decision has been made, what are their emotions like?
What would you pack?
Can you take home with you?
Put yourselves in their shoes.

15. Task: To build the entire narrative including dialogue.
What is left unsaid?
Are some things too difficult to say?

16. Next step…?