When is Refugee Week?
Refugee Week takes place each year in June.
This will be from 17 to 23 June 2024, and the theme will be Our Home. From the places we gather to share meals to our collective home, planet earth: everyone is invited to celebrate what our Our Home means to them.
A teaching focus on Refugee Week can help children gain understanding of issues and vocabulary they may encounter in the news, as well as supporting the celebration of diversity and inclusion in your school.
“To me, a home is where you feel loved, safe, and cherished.”
Malala Yousafzai
What is Refugee Week?
Refugee Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Refugee Week 2023 invited people to celebrate what compassion looks like in action and show how arts and culture can help widen our circles of compassion.
Refugee Week free online events 2024
This year we will be marking Refugee Week with an exciting line up of free virtual author events.
Refugee Week with Michael Rosen: On the Move, with BSL interpreter
Date: Monday 17 June 2024, 10am
For: pupils aged 9 to 14 (year 5 to 9/P6 to S3)
Join author and poet Michael Rosen, along with pupils from across the UK, for your class to hear from Michael himself about his On the Move collection, his inspiration behind it and what home means to him. Michael will also guide pupils in how they might use his poems as inspiration when writing their own creative piece of writing for Refugee Week 2024.
Refugee Week with Adnan
Date: Thursday 20 June, 10am
For: pupils aged 6 to 9 (years 2 to 4/P3 to P5)
Join us as we mark Refugee Week 2024 through our live event which explores the story of Adnan: The boy who helped his mummy remember written by Mark Arrigo and Steven Chatterton and illustrated by Diala Brisly. This includes a Q&A, plus we'll be providing a follow-up resource which supports teachers in guiding their pupils to write a creative piece of writing.
Refugee Week teaching resources 2024: coming soon
Alongside our virtual author events, we will be producing a suite of supporting classroom resources for pupils aged 3-14 (early years, KS1, KS2 and KS3 age phases). These will be live at the end of May to help you prepare for Refugee Week, beginning 17 June.
We will be sharing updates about the events and classroom resources in our Training and Resources newsletter so make sure you sign up here!