Be Safe and Be Kind – Assembly this week

This week, we focussed our assemblies on the Muslin festival of Ramadan. We started by discussing the link between learning about Ramadan and the protected characteristic or Religion and belief and the British Values of Tolerance and Mutual Respect. My favourite quote from the assembly was from a child in year 4 who stated, “We learn about religions so we know how other people celebrate their faith. It is important so we don’t discriminate against people due to their religion when we are older.” Powerful words. We also discussed why the children thought it was important to learn about cultures and religious or beliefs of people who live in our country. We discussed what Muslim people do during Ramadan and why fasting and charity during this time is so important. It was also great to see children of other faiths drawing comparisons to their own faith when we talked about Eid and celebrations at the end of Ramadan. A really engaging topic.