Refugee Week
Refugee Week 2024 –'‘‘Our Home’'
17- 23 June 2024 -Join us!
Every year we celebrate the contribution of refugees and people seeking sanctuary in our communities during Refugee Week. In many schools across the country, teachers help children and young people to develop an understanding of refugee experiences that they will carry with them into their adulthood.
During that week Lancashire pupils will be invited to join the Equality and Diversity Team project 'Our Home'.
Share with us what 'Our Home' means to you. Make an image using paint, crayons, photography or write a poem or a story on this theme.
Send all your entries electronically via a photo (initials of pupil and school included in the email please) to - izabela.zalewska-ratajczak@lancashire.gov.uk Please email us the best quality photograph you can take, in JPG format and preferably landscape.
We will put the images virtually together to create a virtual poster made by Lancashire children which we can share with you and display in many settings.
All the entries will be display on our website and top ten entries will be incorporated in our poster.
Prizes will be given for the best 3 entrants.
Deadline for all entries is Tuesday 25th June 2024.
For more information on activities for Refugee week please follow the link: https://refugeeweek.org.uk/
Refugee Week 2023
1st prize high school winners Elizabeth P. and Martyna P. of Parklands High School
2nd prize high school winners Anastasia F., Attia A., Zahid M., and Nazarii K. of Blessed Trinity RC College
As part of Refugee Week 2023, Lancashire pupils were invited to join the Education Improvement – Equality and Diversity Team project 'Compassion ' by making an image using paint, crayons, photography or by writing a poem or a story on this theme.
We were delighted to receive a record number of 132 entries altogether: 8 primary and 2 high school! All of artwork will be displayed on our website.
It was very difficult to choose a winner this year, but we felt that Sam D. from Holy Family Catholic School captured the spirit of “sanctuary” for everyone, celebrating diversity and human rights best. His words and sentiments expressed in the poster best captured understanding of the need for compassion .
He won 1st place in category for primary school children in our 2023 competition.
Well done too to Leandro M. from St. Joseph's Catholic Primary School, who claimed 2nd place together with Y5 children from The Roebuck Primary school. Their collection of doves with messages together, are a lovely and very practical expression of compassion. This is because each of them is to be included in a welcome pack to a sanctuary seeker.
And also congratulation to all children in Y2 from English Martyrs Primary, who took third place collectively!
Finally, our special congratulations to Elizabeth P. and Martyna P. from Parklands High School for winning 1st place in the category for high school students and also to Anastasia F., Attia A., Nazarii K., and Zahid M., from Blessed Trinity RC College for winning 2nd place collectively in the same category in our 2023 competition.
Thank you to all who took part in our Lancashire project!
Our winners:
Primary school pupils :
1st place Sam D., Holy Family Catholic Primary School
2nd place Leandro M., St. Joseph's Catholic Primary School
2nd place Y 5 collectively ,The Roebuck Primary
3rd place Y2 from English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School
High School students :
1st place Elizabeth P. from Parklands High School
1st place Martyna P. from Parklands High School
2nd place collectively; Anastasia F., Attia A., Nazarii K., and Zahid M., from Blessed Trinity RC College
Lancashire Refugee Week 2022
As part of Refugee Week 2022, Lancashire pupils were invited to join the Education Improvement – Equality and Diversity Team project 'Healing' by making an image using paint, crayons, photography or by writing a poem or a story on this theme.
We were delighted to receive 119 entries altogether: 84 posters and 35 poems! All of them will be displayed on our website and the top ten entries have been incorporated in the 'Healing' poster shown.
It was very difficult to choose a winner this year, but we felt that Arfa Ayub from Bradley Nursery School captured the spirit of “sanctuary” for everyone, celebrating diversity and human rights best. She won 1st place in the best poster category in our 2022 competition.
Well done too to Alessia De Molfetta-Page from Holy Family Catholic Primary School, who claimed 2nd place, and Primet Primary’s Sarah Jabeen, who took third place.
Finally, our special congratulations to Idahosa Irabor from The Cathedral Catholic Primary School for winning 1st place in the best poem category for primary school children and Eniola Afuye from Lancaster Girls' Grammar School for winning 1st place in the best poem category for high school students in our 2022 competition.
You will be able to read their poems on our website shortly.
Thank you to all who took part in our Lancashire project!
Our Refugee Week 2022 'HEALING 'Poster :
We Cannot Walk Alone Project 2021
Refugee Week 2021 - We Cannot Walk Alone Poster
The theme of Refugee Week 2021, ‘We Cannot Walk Alone’, was an invitation to extend your hand to someone new. Someone who is outside your current circle, has had an experience you haven’t, or is fighting for a cause you aren’t yet involved in.
During that week Lancashire pupils were invited to join the EM/GRT Project-We cannot walk alone by making an image using paint, crayons, photography or text on the theme above.
We had 49 entries altogether. All of them are displayed on our website and top ten entries have been incorporated in our 'We cannot walk alone' poster.
The overall winners are:
- 1st place- Y2 pupil from Holy Family Catholic Primary School
- 2nd place- Y6 pupil from Holy Family Catholic Primary School
- 3rd place -Y5 pupil from The Roebuck Primary School
Congratulations to all the winners!!!!!
All the entries -
Coronaquilt Project 2020
Lancashire Coronaquilt 2020
As part of Refugee week 2020, Lancashire pupils were invited to join the EM/GRT Coronaquilt Project-Imagine by making a square image using collage, paint, drawing, photography or text on the theme of Imagine.
When things feel stuck; when the old ways of doing things are no longer working, that’s what we need to do. In the era of Covid-19, the call to imagine feels more important than ever. ‘To imagine’ means to picture something you can’t currently see, a better World where we come together to support each other and the vulnerable.
The project was inspired by Art Refuge, a charity supporting displaced people through art and art therapy.
We had 71 entries across all age groups from 6 schools.
The overall winners were:
Age 11+ category: A year 9 student from Blessed Trinity RC College
Age 5-11 yrs category: A pupil from Dallas Road Primary School
And
Age 5-11 yrs category: A pupil from Roebuck Primary School
