When is Refugee Week?
This 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.
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 and events 2025
This Refugee Week, we want to help pupils aged 3 to 14 explore the theme of ‘Community as a Superpower’ and consider how they can use their pen and their voice to build bridges and come together. Using key literacy skills, exploring high-quality texts, and interacting with skilled and professional writers, we will support teachers in guiding pupils through this challenging but important issue and finding out how even the smallest acts can work together to build a strong and powerful community.
Please explore the outline of classroom resources and our exciting schedule of free, online author events.
Pupils aged 3 to 5 (Early years)
Practitioners will be supported to explore Refugee Week with a carefully curated book list to support them in exploring this challenging topic with their children. The resource will include a range of prompts, tips, and links to support the children identify 'small acts' they can do.
Pupils aged 5 to 7 (KS1, P2-P3)
Pupils will be inspired by Patricia McCormick and Mevan Babakar's The Bicycle. This resource focuses on creating a class poem inspired by the book and ask pupils what they can do to make others feel 'BIG', through reading, writing, and oracy.
What's included
- Teacher guide with four-part learning sequence
- A live, online event with Mevan Babakar on Friday 20 June
Pupils aged 8 to 11 (KS2, P4-7)
Pupils will focus on creating a class pledge inspired by the work and writing of A.M.Dassu and others who write about the refugee experience. Pupils will utilise reading, writing, and oracy to explore how their small acts of kindness can contribute to others feeling welcome.
What's included
- Teacher guide with four-part learning sequence
- A live, online event with A.M.Dassu and guest on Tuesday 17 June
Students aged 11 to 14 (KS3, S1-3)
Students will be asked to consider the responsibility of the storyteller when discussing and writing about the refugee experience, inspire by Sita Brahmachari's new book Phoenix Brothers. Three standalone sessions will explore the theme of 'Community as a Superpower' through reading, writing, and oracy, and ask pupils to think about how their words can be a powerful tool to bring people together.
What's included
- Teacher guide with three standalone sessions linked to the theme
- A live, online event with Sita Brahmachari and guest on Friday 20 June
These resources aim to enrich writing, reading and oracy skills. All resources will link to all National Curricula, details of which will be available on the main resource.
When can I book events and download resources?
- Booking for our free, live events will open in early May. We'll add links to learn more and book on this page.
- Resources will be available to download from this page in the week commencing 19 May allowing time to explore and plan in advance of Refugee Week in June.
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Refugee Week 2024 inspired by the theme 'Our Home'.
Last year's theme for Refugee Week (2024) was Our Home. Be inspired by the work submitted by pupils at St Martin's Primary School displayed here. A big thank you to all who submitted work to us! We really enjoyed reading all of your poems inspired by the theme of Our Home.
