Nick wrote:

See http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch...ion/diwali.htm

Excellent link to give, just reading it in your post without following it
gives a great clue.

More clue of course once followed...

Just setting you homework!

I agree a bit obscure. Surprisingly thorough for a primary school in Kent -
not in Brent, for instance.

You don't have young children then? Mine have all studied this subject
under their religious education in state junior schools over the past
decade. I live in Hampshire and believe this is just part of the
curriculum these days.