Refugee week teaching resources
A collection of free educational resources and activities to guide meaningful discussions and learning during Refugee Week.
Use these free educational resources to foster empathy, compassion, and awareness of refugee experiences during the annual refugee week events. Every year, there is a new refugee week theme, for example:
- 2019: You, me and those who came before
- 2020: Imagine
- 2021: We cannot walk alone
- 2022: Healing
- 2023: Compassion
Read about the values and principles of refugee week here.
Newsthink: Refugee week 2023
Learn about the UK’s annual awareness event – Refugee Week – through a humanitarian lens using this Newsthink resource. Suitable for the top year of Primary and all of Secondary (10-19 years old).
Refugee week 2021: We cannot walk alone
Educate young people on the isolation felt by refugees during the pandemic and how they can help to be more inclusive. Suitable for secondary school aged student (12-18 years old).
Celebrate 20 years of Refugee Week helping learners to build empathy and understand the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees.
Refugees week 2017: Our shared future
Celebrate our shared future by considering how collaboration between people from different backgrounds strengthens communities.
Refugee Week 2016: welcome
Consider the welcome shown to refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and explore the impact of welcoming on new arrivals in the future.
Celebrate the contributions of refugees to the UK by developing empathy and understanding of the situations refugees have gone through.