Festive activities & campaign package
Students in secondary education and vocational education often organise eye-catching and fun activities. Primary schools also celebrate the fact that everyone can be themselves and that anyone can fall in love with anyone.
The Purple Friday campaign package contains everything you need for a celebration. Students and schools can order it free of charge via the Purple Friday website.
Addressing sexual diversity in class
In addition to being an important visibility campaign led by students, as a teacher you can use this day as an opportunity to address respect for gender and sexual diversity in a positive and enjoyable way during lessons. This helps promote safety for everyone in the classroom. When teachers participate in Purple Friday, the impact is even greater.
Talk show (secondary education)
New this year is a talk show that you can watch with your class. It discusses identity development, queerness, gender identity and religion. The talk show will be available online one week before 9 December on the Purple Friday website, so that you can prepare the lesson.
The Purple Friday Newspaper (secondary education)
For secondary and vocational education, you can order the Purple Friday newspaper and use it in class. It is full of fun articles, stories and facts about sexual diversity, as well as teaching activities and assignments. It comes with a teachers' guide to which School & Veiligheid also contributed this year.
Rainbow books and colouring sheets (primary education)
In primary education, in addition to the festivities, you could, for example, read a picture book with an LGBTQ+ theme aloud. Take a look at the Rainbow Books on Gendi or download and print colouring sheets for the youngest children. Or start a conversation using the (free) Conversation Cards Boys to Girls about respect, the similarities between boys and girls, and between people who are in love.
Are you wondering whether sexual diversity is something that should be addressed in primary school? Then read the blog Miss, can two boys get married? by Bente van Gameren, policy adviser at School & Veiligheid, in which she discusses, among other things, Purple Friday in relation to primary education.
Gendi.nl
On the website of Gendi – an initiative of School & Veiligheid – you will find tips and inspiration for getting started on Purple Friday: