Build with Pride! - Our exciting new design challenge for primary schools in the UK to celebrate Pride 2023
In this new nationwide design challenge pupils will improve their knowledge of the history of Pride and consider things that make them proud. Whether it’s pupils taking pride in their backgrounds, families, achievements, or hobbies — everyone is welcome to participate and get creative to showcase the things that make them proud!
We live in a world where difference is often used as a way of burning bridges between communities. Increased media hostility toward people from diverse backgrounds continue to shape and enforce negative stereotypes about our friends and families. Our Impact Report 2022 found that primary pupils cite ‘looking different’ and ‘being different’ as two main reasons for their experiences of bullying. One of the ways of challenging it is through building a sense pride in young people, and DRM Build With Pride Design Challenge will help them do just that!
All 7-11 year olds in the UK can participate
All primary school teachers & educators are encouraged to run 'Build with Pride’ activities for their students!
We have tailored our resource pack activities to Year 5 & 6 pupils (ages 9-11), though you can adapt them to suit the age range and existing knowledge of your class. Some of our activities provide multiple resource options that you can review and pick from depending on what you think suits the needs of your particular students.
All participants will receive a Certificate of Accomplishment
All students that complete our resource pack activities and participate in the challenge by submitting their designs will receive DRM’s unique ‘Build with Pride’ Certificate of Accomplishment. Teachers are welcome to showcase them in school or personalise for each student that participates.
Download our Free Resource Pack to help guide your pupils through the challenge
Our free and downloadable resource pack will provide all the resources and guidance needed to run this exciting design challenge.
Our free resource pack is full of activities that will help your pupils understand what Pride celebrations and protests are, as well as why they are important. Through our resource pack, your pupils will also identify some of the things that they feel proud of and use our worksheet to sketch out their unique designs!
We will guide you all the way through to the stage of building your unique designs. Then, it will be up to you as a teacher to take the lead and help your pupils make their vision a reality. But don’t you worry, we’ve got plenty of inspiration and design examples included in the Recourse Pack to get you thinking!
How to share your built designs
You don’t need to have completed all activities from the Resource Pack to enter the design challenge. Though, to receive DRM ‘Build with Pride’ Certificate of Accomplishment, teachers must send us a photo of the finished designs and email them to buildwithpride@diversityrolemodels.org
Only entries submitted before 5pm 30th June 2023 will receive a certificate.
Note on photos sent to us:
Photos emailed to DRM must not contain the following:
- Any young people/pupils.
- Any identifiable or personal information about pupils, such as a child's name. Names or other personal or identifiable information in photos of designs should be blurred or redacted.
We may share some photos of designs on Diversity Role Models' website and social media pages with your school name. Emailing your design photo to us consents to DRM using the photo in this manner unless you inform us otherwise. Please let us know if you would like any of your school's social media accounts tagged. If preferred we can share images anonymously. Any images containing young people or personal or identifiable information will not be shared.
Sharing your photos:
We encourage you to share photos of your designs and students participating across your school's social media. Please use the hashtag #DRMBuildWithPride so we can like and share your posts.
Please do not share any images on social media if you do not have adequate consent for the young persons image to be shared.