Simple Acts Schools Competition

What can YOU do to make refugees feel more welcome?

We are calling on schools to design the UK’s best pro-refugee banner, telling us about your ideas.

The Simple Act campaign is about inspiring people to use small, everyday actions to change our perception of refugees. In 2009, more than 7000 people completed and recorded their simple act on our website.

This year we are calling on schools to take this campaign a whole leap forward. We would like you to inspire your students to think about a 21st action: their personal one.

We'd like you and your students to answer one simple question:

‘There are many simple ways to make a refugee feel more welcome. What would be yours?’

Get your students to create a banner with their thoughts, take a photo of it and enter it into our national competition.

The banners can be as small or big as you would like them to be. Get your students to get the scissors out, draw, paint, write, print, use glue and glitter. There are no limits to their imagination. It doesn’t have to be an expensive colour print or fabric. It can be an old table cloth with their message stuck on to it or an A4 page with a very strong personal statement. The important thing for us is to see imagination and the thought behind the message.

The best entry will get an “X-Factor style” treatment with us visiting your school, taking pictures and a video with interviews and a little portrait of everyone involved. Runners-up will get their banners displayed on the Simple Acts website.

For more information on how to enter please go to www.refugeeweek.org.uk/simple-acts/schools

Thanks for getting involved in the Simple Acts campaign! We wish you lots of fun with it and good luck in winning our competition!