Be a Water Champion – Water Week 2025

Water is life. We use it every single day — to drink, cook, clean, grow food, and even make our clothes. But how often do we stop to think about just how precious it really is?

Schools across the UK and around the world are coming together to participate in Water Week 2025 (2-8 June), a vibrant global campaign that highlights the importance of water in our lives and the growing threats it faces from climate change, pollution, and overuse. It aims to encourage children and young people to explore the importance of water and how we can protect it now and for the future.

This year's themes encourage shared creativity, real-world learning, and practical action, empowering young people aged 5–16 to become Water Champions in their schools and communities as they explore:

• Why water matters
• Water and climate change
• Global water inequality
• Water pollution
• Sustainable water use
• Nature-based solutions
• Young changemakers
• Future water careers 

Join the Water Week Challenge!

We've teamed up with Cartoon Network Climate Champions to bring you a fun and impactful Water Week Challenge, designed to help everyone conserve and protect water.

There are 10 Water Week challenges pupils can complete as part of an inter-class competition – with the class with the most completed challenges at the end of Water Week winning a special prize (e.g. extra play time, a special privilege, etc.)

We've created an awesome homework challenge sheet with details of each challenge, along with a parentmail, to encourage support from families and carers.  

To accept a challenge, pupils will need to visit the Cartoon Network Climate Champions website, locate their challenge, and tick the 'take the challenge' box.

We've provided fun classroom charts for pupils to record their completed challenges in school, allowing you to keep track of your class's progress. At the end of the week, the total number of completed challenges per class can be recorded on the school challenge chart to see which class wins!

Pupils can also mark their challenges as complete on the Cartoon Network Climate Champions website to indicate that they have joined other young people worldwide in taking action to protect water.

And if you send us your winning class's details, they could win 30 exclusive Water Week Teemill t-shirts with their names on! T&Cs apply.

Sign up for your Water Week campaign pack here

Water Week has been designed to be flexible, fun, and easy to deliver, whether you're dipping a toe in or diving in deep. Here's what you'll get:

• Teacher campaign guide
• 10 water-saving challenges for the inter-class competition
• Assemblies to launch the week with a splash
• Posters and challenge charts
• Parentmail & homework challenge sheet
• Award certificate
• Water Week Education Resource Directory - a curated database of media-rich content.

Water Week resources are available year-round, so you can run the Challenge and use the resources whenever it suits your timetable. Everything is ready to go – so you can start saving water!

Let's make a splash this Water Week! By taking part, your school becomes part of a global community of young changemakers working to secure a better future for our planet.