What is the Sikh festival of Vaisakhi? | Religious Studies – My Life, My Religion: Sikhism

Suitable for teaching 7-11s. Eleven-year-old Simran takes us to the Vaisakhi (Sikh New Year) celebrations and parade in her hometown of Birmingham.

Subscribe for more Religious Education clips from BBC Teach on Mondays when we have them in: httpss://bit.ly/BBCSubscribeTeach

If you found this video helpful, give it a like.
Share it with someone.
Add the video to your own teaching playlists.
Create an account, subscribe to the channel and create playlists for different age groups, sets and syllabuses.

=====================
One hundred thousand people attend the Vaisakhi parade, which Simran’s dad has helped organise in their hometown of Birmingham. Vaisakhi is the Sikh celebration of the New Year, and Simran explains the traditions and why the event is meaningful for Khalsa Sikhs. We see her and her family take part in the colourful street parade.

This clip is from the BBC series My Life, My Religion, in which we find out about life following the Sikh faith through the eyes of a young practicing Sikh called Simran (aged 11) and her family.

For more clips from My Life, My Religion: Sikhism: https://bit.ly/TeachMLMRS
For our Religious Studies playlist: https://bit.ly/BBCTeachRS
For Class Clips users, the original reference for the clip was p02mx5lv.

=====================
Teaching Religious Studies?

Pupils could hold a discussion about volunteering. Ask them to think of examples of volunteering around the school or in their lives outside.

Watch the clip and ask them to note everything that the volunteers do at Vaisakhi. Ask them to consider what the benefits of volunteering are; to us personally, to others and to a community. How does volunteering make us feel? Why is it a good thing to do?

Sikhs follow the teaching of the Gurus, who say that if you want to find God, you should serve others. Ask pupils to suggest how and why they would like to volunteer, in school, in the wider community and in other areas of their lives.

This topic will be relevant to teaching Religious Education at KS2 or KS3 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and National 2 or 3 in Scotland.

=====================
For more clips from other subjects at the BBC Teach YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/bbcteach
More from BBC Learning Zone: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone
More resources from BBC Bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/education

=====================
Subscribe to create your own customised playlists, and get notified about our latest clips. As we have them, new videos will be uploaded on the following days:

Mondays: Biology, Computer Science, Music, Religious Studies
Tuesdays: Drama and Performance, English Language, Maths, Physical Education
Wednesdays: Languages, Media and Film studies, Modern Studies and PSHE, Physics
Thursdays: Art and Design, Chemistry, Geography, History
Fridays: Business Studies, Design and Technology, English Literature