Pilgrimage: a three-minute film
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Overview
Help primary and secondary students understand what a pilgrimage is, why Christians go on pilgrimage and the significance of Westminster Abbey as a pilgrimage site. This short film includes a reflective point-of-view sketch introducing pilgrimages, an entertaining explanation from King Henry III about St Edward the Confessor and a reminder that pilgrimage still takes place today.
This film is ideal as a starter for Pilgrimage lessons, either using Westminster Abbey teaching resources or your own content. Download the accompanying teachers’ notes document, which includes a full transcript.
Learning objectives
- To understand that pilgrimage is a special, religious, journey, in which people can travel varying distances and that people go on pilgrimages for different reasons
- To learn that for hundreds of years, Westminster Abbey has been a site of Christian pilgrimage. Pilgrims have come over the centuries to visit the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor
- To learn that today pilgrimage to the shrine still take place, often during a period called Edwardtide
