Create a display in your library or display case in a hallway to celebrate or help raise awareness about LGBTQIA+ issues in your school.

Wear your Pride! Hold a non-uniform day where students can show off their identities and expressions. Bring a gold coin and donate to InsideOUT or another rainbow organisation.

Ask if your school or local library is participating in the Out on the Shelves rainbow reading campaign and get them to sign up if they aren’t! Help them promote their rainbow reading collections and pick a rainbow book title from our reading resource to check out or read for class.

Have your QSA or rainbow diversity group decide on a book from the Out on the Shelves rainbow reading resource and read it during the month of June. End on a discussion about what you liked or didn’t like about it.

Print and laminate a range of different pride flags and hide them throughout your school.
During the week students can find and deliver the flags to a designated person (student leader, teacher etc) and exchange for a small prize (lolly or badge for example)

Encourage students to look up the meaning of the flags they find!

To coincide with Wear Your Pride, have a Pride Parade around the school! Encourage students to bring flags and signs etc too.

Hold a group session and spend some time together writing letters or emails to your local politicians. Talk about Rainbow issues currently affecting young people and what change you would like to see happen.

Decorate the inside of your classroom door with colour, personalised items, quotes and pictures to show what you are proud of. Schools can make this into a competition or have it as an optional way to show pride for your community.

Host a craft group where everyone brings their own craft (knitting/crocheting, drawing, sewing, beading etc) or organise a group activity.

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Hold a card making session where you create and write supportive messages.
These could be for Rainbow leaders in your school or community, or fellow students, supportive teachers or to local Rainbow charities.

You could also write to LGBTQIA+ artists you love or more personally, a friend you know is struggling.

Bring your nail polish supplies and have some fun sharing and making pride themed nail art.

Host a fun run with the added pizazz of a rainbow of colour. At different intervals throughout the course, participants are doused from head to toe in a different coloured powder. Get everyone to wear white and see everyone finishing in an explosion of colour. It makes for fabulous photo opps. 

Reach out to local rainbow people in your school community. Or aim high and contact a rainbow politician, celebrity or sportsperson. Hearing from successful older rainbow people can have a huge positive affect on young people. 

Create a pride themed quiz on kahoot for your class, or choose a new theme each day. Eg Rainbow History, Pop Culture, Aotearoa Pride History, Flags etc