Interfaith Week for Schools 2026: Celebrating Diversity and Unity
Interfaith Week for Schools 2026 | 8th- 15th November
Celebrating Diversity and Unity
Theme of this year’s Inter Faith Week: 'Lighting the way for a shared future’
Inter Faith Week is a vital time in the school calendar to celebrate the diversity of faiths and beliefs of your students, your families and the community.
RE Today is proud to be an RE Partner for Inter Faith Week for schools. As a key part of Inter Faith Week 2026, schools can use the IFW4Schools website: a hub of free resources, ideas, and activities to help schools celebrate Inter Faith Week. The resources have been handpicked by several expert interfaith and education organisations, including RE Today! The site is designed to support teachers in delivering engaging lessons that build understanding, respect, and connection across different faiths and beliefs. Whether you are planning assemblies, classroom discussions, community engagement events or whole-school projects, you will find inspiration to get involved. Following the success of last year’s schools’ Inter Faith Week poetry competition, this national competition will be running for a second year, details of what to do and how to get your school involved can be found in the competition section of the IFW4Schools site. Explore the website today and join schools across the country in marking this important week!
RE Today are making 2 resources freely available to all schools for use during Inter Faith Week. These resources link to the theme of ‘Lighting the way for a shared future’.
RE Today Primary resource:
A set of engaging teaching activities to help pupils think about light, darkness, safety and celebration in a memorable way. The Christmas focus is lively and classroom-friendly, with opportunities to compare artworks of the Nativity from around the world and spot how different artists use light to show meaning. Pupils explore why Christians describe Jesus as ‘the light of the world’ through stories, discussion and hands-on activities.
Access primary resource here.
NATRE members can freely download an accompanying PowerPoint presentation to use in class here.
RE Today Secondary resource:
These slides invite students to act as art critics, using powerful student artworks linked to the theme “lighting the way for a shared future”. The activities encourage deeper reflection by sharing the artists’ own explanations and asking students to explore ways in which each piece is linked to the theme. Students finish by reflecting upon the theme for themselves, before potentially using their reflections as a basis for their own artwork or poetry for this year’s Inter Faith Week poetry competition.
Access secondary resource here.