By primary schools, I mean regular non religious ones, rather than COE or Catholic. I don’t have kids, but I’m 30 and when I was in primary we had to sing a bunch of religious songs (whole word in his hands, cross over the road my friend, lord of the harvest etc) and at the end of assembly we prayed. Not for forgiveness or anything afaik (lol), normally just to thank god/say we were grateful. They’d also sometimes read us a religious/moral tale. Not from the bible but often oriented around Christianity, ie the Good Samaritan.
We also had a nativity play at the end of the year, and a carol concert, where again we acted out the story of Jesus being born and sung religious hymns like away in a manger/ it was on a starry night.
we didn’t do any of this in secondary, again I went to a non religious secondary.
I know back when I was at school it was 99% Christian’s or non religious folk. We had one Jehovah’s Witness girl but she got taken out of the school plays and maybe assembles too, can’t quite remember. The one black boy in our class was Christian or non religious.
i don’t have kids so im just curious whether it’s considered offensive to do this nowadays - I’m aware we are far more multicultural now- or whether it’s still done.