Check it! - Immigration to Britain - Year 6

The educational resource from Focus Education (UK) Ltd provides a comprehensive approach to reviewing and consolidating students' understanding of immigration to Britain. The material encourages Year 6 students to actively engage with the topic by incorporating a variety of interactive strategies. These include methods such as 'Brain dump', 'Give me FIVE!', 'Add to my mind map', 'Expand and Elaborate!', and 'Retrieval Pyramids', all designed to facilitate regular opportunities for children to revisit and reflect on what they have learned about the reasons behind Britain's appeal to immigrants.

The resource prompts students to delve deeper into the subject of immigration by asking them to name countries from which significant numbers of migrants have moved to Britain, as well as cities or towns with high populations of people not born in the country. It also challenges students to consider both the positive aspects and the controversies surrounding immigration, such as the benefits it has brought to Britain and the opposition it has faced. The activities encourage students to think critically about the history of immigration, the roles immigrants have filled in the workforce, and current debates such as Brexit and open access immigration policies. The differentiated levels of questioning ensure that all students, regardless of their level of understanding, can participate and contribute to the discussion.