Monday 19th September

DAN COMES TO VISIT!

A man called Dan came to see us today to speak to us about the life of refugees around the world. He did a quiz with us, where we learnt lots of information, such as:

• Every 21 seconds in the world, another refugee is 'created'
• Nearly all refugees in the world move from a poor country into another poor country
• Afghanistan has produced the most refugees in the last 5 years

Dan knew lots about the experiences that refugees go through (he works with Amnesty International and the Refugee Youth Project) and we learnt lots from him!

Interestingly, Dan has also been carrying out a research project on 'playground singing games' over the past 10 years and has travelled all around the world finding out about different songs. He's also an artist and has a mural of his singing playground games up in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London! You can take a look at this fantastic piece of art here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/whats_on/galleries/childhood/the_singing_playground/index.html (click on the blue 'singing playgound' link to see the painting)