School Diversity Week

Resource type: Event

Price band: Free

Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5

Region(s): All of UK

School Diversity Week is an annual celebration of LGBT+ equality in education. It is designed to make schools and colleges safer and more welcoming for pupils who are LGBT+ or who have LGBT+ families. School Diversity Week 2026 runs from 22nd to 26th June.

School Diversity Week is run by the charity Just Like Us. They provide a range of free resources for schools to support School Diversity Week:

Access to free toolkits for primary and secondary schools that include posters, reading lists, cross-curricular lesson plans and ideas for themed assemblies.
Information on how to run a fundraising event.
Free CPD-accredited e-learning courses for primary and secondary practitioners looking at ways to make schools LGBT+ inclusive.

Cost: Resources are free with registration.

About Just Like Us: Just Like Us is a LGBT+ charity for young people with a mission to champion LGBT+ equality. The charity runs a number of programmes across the UK to raise awareness and support young LGBT+ people in schools and in the workplace.

Further resources:

Just Like Us also offers School Talks where young adult ambassadors aged 18-25 go into secondary schools and colleges to talk about their experience of growing up LGBT+. Talks can be for any size of group and last up to one hour. Cost from £50.
The Pride Group programme provides support for schools interested in setting up a pupil-led group that provides a safe space for LGBT+ and ally young people to meet in their secondary school or college. The programme provides toolkits, virtual training sessions and topical LGBT+ resources through the year.
Submit a story for this year’s Inclusive Voices short story competition. Open to writers of all ages, the competition runs from 4th June – 13th September 2026 and is looking for entries that explore what it means to understand and share another person’s feelings. Entries can be prose or poetry, written, video or audio. Sign up for an online workshop with author and judge A. M. Dassu on 6th July for some ideas and inspiration.
Scottish Book Trust has recommendations for books that explore LGBTQ+ themes for KS2 and KS3, as well as a list of picture books that celebrate LGBTQ+ identities and families for younger readers.
Explore a collection of over 70 LGBT+ titles, ranging from picture books to YA novels from book recommendation site LoveReading4Kids.
Download free resources to celebrate Pride Month with KS1 and KS2 pupils from the National Literacy Trust. The KS1 resources are based on the book Grandad’s Camper by Harry Woodgate and the KS2 resources are based on Benjamin Dean’s The Secret Sunshine Project.
Find recommendations for LGBT+ poets from the past as well as contemporary LGBT+ poetry anthologies that can be used in secondary schools on the Poetry Society website.
A New Chapter and Letterbox Library are booksellers that specialise in books that celebrate diversity and challenge stereotypes.