The Suitcase – Chris Naylor Ballesteros

 

Text: The Suitcase – Chris Naylor Ballesteros

LO: Understand the universal legislation on human rights

RSE: the importance of respecting others, even when they are very different from them (for example, physically, in character, personality or backgrounds), or make different choices or have different preferences or beliefs

Starter: what is a refugee? How does someone become a refugee? Could anyone become a refugee?

Main : Read The Suitcase and discuss:

- The animal arrives looking “dusty, tired, sad, frightened” why do you think that is?

- Why does the animal say there is a table and chair and a wooden cabin in his suitcase?

- “I don’t trust him, how do we know he is telling the truth?” why do you think the fox says this? Why doesn’t fox trust the stranger?

- why do the animals break in to the suitcase?

-Why do the other animals build a cabin at the end of the story? Do you think they have changed their minds about the stranger?

Activity: Look at this picture; what do you see?
Where was the photo taken?
What do you notice about the people in the photo - in what ways are they similar and different?

More than 40 refugees and asylum seekers are meeting once a week in Middlesbrough to play football, learn English and make friends. The team was established by MFC Foundation and a local Methodist Asylum, project.

Paul South, from MFC Foundation says, "The guys really enjoy it...wearing the Boro kit gives them a sense of identity."

The club was started by John Yarro in 2013. John was walking though his local park and he noticed a group of refugees hanging about. John went over and asked them, "Would you be happy if I can bring a football and we can play?" they all said yes.

Now there teams for men and women with over 30 different nationalities. The team has progressed to the top division of Stockton Sunday league.

Sometimes the players face difficulty; at one match this season two players were sent off by the ref for not speaking English and sometimes opponents make racist comments. But John says, "It's not just about football but about challenging that sort of behaviour in society. We're proud of what we have achieved with all these challenges - hopefully one day we will produce a professional player."

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/apr/12/middlesbrough-refugees-football-community

Now consider the following questions:

Why do you think John Yarrow decided to start the football project?

How can playing in a football team give someone a "sense of identity"?

Why do you think a refugee / asylum seeker might feel they have lost their sense of identity?

There are 30 different nationalities in the teams; what does this show about the people in the teams and how they feel about difference and diversity?

Why do you think the ref chose to send off players for not speaking English? Why do you think the players were not speaking English? In what other ways could the ref have responded to that situation? What do you think about that decision?

Why are some players in other teams making racist comments? How can that be stopped?

What can we learn from this football team?

Plenary: The other characters in the book look recognisable; a fox, bird and rabbit. But the stranger is not recognisable. Why do you think the author chose to make the stranger unrecognisable?

How is this story linked to No Outsiders?

 No Outsiders: Everyone different, everyone welcome by Andrew Moffat

www.no-outsiders.com

 


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