Multi-faith week – promoting understanding and challenging stereotypes
Our multi-faith week has encouraged pupils to embrace the diversity of the world we live in. Its theme was ‘Celebrating Our World: A Journey of Faiths.’
“Our aim for multi-faith week is to foster a sense of global citizenship within our pupils, and develop their appreciation for different perspectives,” said Mr Pitman.
"It is so important to introduce children to different faiths and beliefs from a young age, promoting understanding and challenging stereotypes."
Mr Pitman
Each classroom was provided with an information pack with different games and activities to encourage a broader religious education.
During breaktimes, some of our teachers read stories from different faiths in the library, which were followed up with questions and discussions about the different religions.
We are committed to continuing our children's multi-faith education throughout their TPR (Theology, Philosophy and Religion) lessons. We are also planning a multi-faith chapel service later in the term. Dedicating a week to multi-faith learning has been a valuable tool to remind the children the importance of celebrating difference throughout the term.
What are we doing in the Pre-Prep?
Our Year 2 pupils visited the Year 3 classrooms in the Prep School to collaborate on a multi-faith week project. The two year groups explored lots of different religious symbols and recreated them in their own style.
The collaboration was just one of several collaboration opportunities, designed to give this cohort a fun opportunity to spend time together.
By the end of Year 2, our pupils are ready to move to Year 3 and excited for the year that lies ahead.. Our methodologies ensure a seamless transition where pupils know the Year 3 teachers, the classrooms and the children in the year above well.
"We were very impressed by how many symbols the pupils could recognise. They enjoyed talking about different religions, helping each other out and congregating in a big circle to share their work at the end of the session."
Mrs Pitman
