Talking about and celebrating different religious festivals at school is a great way to start a conversation about different faiths, cultures and communities. To take the discussion further take a look at Lyfta's
Becoming Me series. This series of storyworlds centres around the lives of six young people from Denmark who come from different communities and have differing faiths and worldviews. We see how each of them approaches growing up, practising faith and being part of a community. The teaching resources (including 12 lesson and assembly plans) emphasise the diversity within and across religious traditions and illustrate the national context of the worldviews featured.
Each child's identity, worldview and sense of belonging is complex. Tackling these themes with students can be challenging, but it can also lead to impactful discussions that have cross-curricular value - particularly as part of religious education, but also as part of PSHE, citizenship, or any subject where discussing identity is relevant. Exploring these themes also gives teachers the opportunity to highlight the diverse ways in which people can express their identities and worldviews.
