Interfaith Week for Schools 2024: Celebrating Diversity and Unity
Interfaith Week for Schools 2024
Linking Faiths, Beliefs & Communities
10th-17th November
Sharing My Story: Building Our Future
Interfaith Week is a vital time in the school calendar to celebrate the diversity of faiths and beliefs of your students, your families and the local community. This year, the Faith & Belief Forum and NASACRE are spearheading the IFW for schools initiative, bringing you ten curated resources, event ideas, and lesson/assembly plans around our theme of Sharing Our Story: Building Our Future. The resources have been handpicked by several expert interfaith and education organisations, including RE Today!
Stay tuned, as one month before Interfaith Week, on the 10th of October, they will launch the new Interfaith Week for Schools Website. Then keep in touch, share photos and let them know what you got up to in your school, SACRE or community, and help them spread the positive outcomes of linking faiths, beliefs and communities.
RE Today Primary Resource :
A photo story entitled My Friday, by Nazmin. A day in the life of a Muslim girl.This presentation contains beautiful photos showing how Nazmin spends a typical Friday including going to school, the mosque, playing with friends, praying with family and spending time with loved ones. The slides contain written information to explain how Nazmin spends her day and questions to deepen pupils’ engagement. Possible learning activities and notes for the teacher are also included.
RE Today Secondary Resource:
TheWhose Worldviews?website is a brand new resource which explores different worldviews, using interactive data-gathering. This site builds on interactive research methods from Studying God and Studying Religion. Teachers can use it as a standalone resource, but may want to use it in conjunction with both of these books.
School pupils (and anyone else!) can fill in their responses to questions about their idea of God, and the impact their worldviews have in their lives, and have their responses turned instantly into a graphic representation – a snowflake or a spidergram. These can then be compared across a group or a cohort, sorted according to age, location, religious or non-religious worldview.
Pupils can also comment on their worldviews once they have seen their results, such as this example here which is from an ITE traineehttps://whoseworldviews.com/chart/lambi-chart-2-348/.