
Refugee Week takes place from 16 to 22 June 2025 and the theme this year is Community as a Superpower.
"Community is the incredible everyday. Ordinary and extraordinary. Simple acts of shared generosity. Kindness multiplied to become an unstoppable force!"
Refugee Week 2025
Refugee Week resources
Sessions plans: Discussions around refugees can be difficult for young children to understand. These session plans use the book Lily and the Polar Bears by Jion Sheibani to support early years children to begin to understand more about refugees in an accessible and age appropriate way.
Aims
- To begin to learn about refugees through use of a picture book, simple activities and relevant discussions
- To support teaching for Refugee Week
- To celebrate diversity
- To encourage children to think about making a connection with someone new
Curriculum links
- These sessions plans and activity ideas link to the EYFS curriculum in the areas of personal, social and emotional development, communication and language, literacy and understanding the world
Books for early years children to support teaching about refugees
- Lily and the Polar Bears by Jion Sheibani
- The Suitcase by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
- My Name is Not Refugee by Kate Milner
- Everybody's Welcome by Patricia Hegarty, illustrated by Greg Abbott
- The Colour of Home by Mary Hoffman, illustrated by Karin Littlewood
More activity ideas: you can also introduce the theme of Refugee Week through building on the ideas and inspiration in the Refugee Week Simple Acts.
Refugee Week resources for schools
Find resources and events for primary and secondary schools on our Refugee Week page.
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