Interfaith Week

To celebrate and recognise Interfaith Week, during our whole school assembly, the teaching staff delivered a presentation to raise awareness of Interfaith and to highlight that faith is a deeply personal and important aspect of many people’s lives, and how important it is to must be respectful and sensitive to one another.

Followed by section assemblies which included a number of activities. Together the students watched the Multifaith Britain video, followed by some time to reflect as a group. Students were asked to discuss the following questions:

• Do they think that Religious Freedom is a good thing and why?

• Is it important that we encourage Religious Dialogue/Interfaith Dialogue in our school community? Do we already do this? Could we do more? What could we do?

Students were then asked to share their faith with the group (only if they were comfortable to do so) or choose a faith they were interested in. They were given 10/12 mins to discuss similarities and differences between their faiths.

Such as:

• Where do they go to worship?

• How to they demonstrate faith?

• What are some of the key values of their faith?

• What are the important festivals/celebrations/rituals?

Each group spent a few minutes feeding back to the class what they learned about one another. The exercise ended with a whole class discussion of whether interfaith dialogue is useful in creating a sense of community.