The West Midlands contain many ethnic minority groups, who have a wide range of traditions (for example, these African drummers) and beliefs. A critical aspect of education is developing respect for this diversity, accomodating practical differences in festivals and other cultural traditions, and promoting awareness of British culture in areas with high ethnic populations, and awareness of diversity in areas which are inhabited mostly by the native British.
The writing in this theme is by young people who have come to England to escape danger and hardship in their own countries; it tells how they got here, and how their lives have changed, at home and at school. They have also suggested issues to discuss, for example in circle time; people who have gone through many difficulties to get to where they are now see things differently to those who have never had to face such problems.
Your own parents and grandparents may not have had to go through terrible experiences like these, but maybe their grandparents or great-grand-parents did - look at these accounts of famine in Ireland and hard times in old England.