When is Refugee Week?
Next year Refugee Week will take place from 16 to 22 June 2025. The theme will be Community as a Superpower.
Why mark Refugee Week?
Refugee Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary.
Our plans for 2025
This page will be updated with new resources and further information as plans develop.
Until then, you can explore our activities and resources from 2024 below.
Refugee Week in 2024
Last year, Refugee Week took place in the third week of June and was inspired by the theme of Our Home. We invited pupils across the UK to celebrate what Our Home meant to them.
Our resources encouraged teachers throughout Refugee Week to support their pupils in gaining an understanding of the issues and vocabulary they may encounter in the news, as well as supporting them in celebrating the diversity and inclusion in their school.
“To me, a home is where you feel loved, safe, and cherished.”
Malala Yousafzai
Refugee Week resources and events 2024
This year, we marked Refugee Week with classroom resources and an exciting line up of free virtual author events.
Pupils aged 3 to 6 explored My Name Is Not Refugee written by Kate Milner and completed a range of classroom activities aimed to engage pupils with key literacy skills and Refugee Week in an age appropriate way.
Pupils aged 6 to 9 explored the story of Adnan: The Boy Who Helped His Mummy Remember written by Mark Arrigo and Steven Chatterton and illustrated by Diala Brisly through class discussion and a follow up classroom activity concluding with pupils writing their own of message of welcome to others into their community.
Pupils aged 9 to 14 explored the the official refugee week theme of 'Our Home' through our five part classroom resource exploring work from a diverse panel of authors, writers and illustrators including Michael Rosen, Nikita Gill, Ramzee and Diala Brisly, concluding the week by writing their own reflective piece on the theme of home./
Live event: Refugee Week with Adnan
This session took place live on Thursday 20 June. However, it will be available to watch back on our YouTube channel until the end of July.
The event, hosted by authors Mark Arrigo and Steven Chatterton, explores the story of Adnan: The boy who helped his mummy remember.
It is designed for pupils pupils aged 6 to 9 (years 2 to 4/P3 to P5), and is a springboard for the classroom resources you can download below.
Live event: Refugee Week with Michael Rosen: On the Move, with BSL interpreter
This session took place live on Monday 17 June. However, it will be available to watch back on our YouTube channel until the end of July.
It is designed for pupils aged 9 to 14 (year 5 to 9/P6 to S3), and is a springboard for the classroom resources to be used across the week. Download the free resources below.
The version with full BSL interpretation throughout is available here.
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Pupils work for Refugee Week inspired by the theme of Our Home.
A big thank you to all who submitted work to us! We enjoyed reading through all of your poems inspired by the theme of Our Home. Below are some of the poems submitted by pupils at St Martins Primary School.
