2024-2025

Buddhism - How do Buddhist practises affect a daily life?

As we deepening our understanding of Buddhism even more, we got to use our acting abilities to role play scenarios where someone following Buddhist practises may differ from the way they view, react or make choices in their lives. Children showed a Buddhist’s choice to avoid drugs and alcohol in many social scenarios, reflecting through meditation to something that happened in their character’s lives and very interestingly how a Buddhist may want to complete military service without the taking of a life through a role as an medic.

Islam - What are the main Islamic festivals and celebrations? (Summer)

In RE this term, we have been exploring and understanding the religion of Islam followed by billions of Muslims across the world. In this lesson, we have been researching and finding out about the main Islamic celebration or festivals: Eid al-Fitr; Eid al-Adha; Ramadan and The Night of Power (Laylat al- Qadr). Each of us worked in small groups to research each a certain celebration and create a presentation to inform the rest of the class. 

What does God hate? (Autumn)

We began our lesson sharing what we all loved about this world, before listing the things we really don’t like (surprisingly there was many) but all around sports teams. We then discussed what were proverbs and what they do to help Christians in leading a good life. We then read the proverb 6: 16-19 which tells of the 7 things that God hates or won’t tolerate. Then we had to dramatise each of them and show the effects it had on others in small groups before sharing with the class. Some great acting.

God - What would God look like? (Autumn)
Over the last two lessons we have been exploring God’s image from Christian eyes by looking at psalms written by those who have claimed to have seen God. We then took what we had read to influence our own image of God and thought how we could represent kindness and omnipotent in a clay model. The final we thought about the colours we chose to have similar meanings.

2023-2024

Islam - Ramadan (Summer)

In RE today, we took a deeper dive into Islamic faith by exploring Ramadan after understanding the importance of the Qu’ran to Muslims last lesson. In this lesson we looked into what Ramadan is and how it happens on the 9th month of the lslamic lunar calendar for a month (until a new moon occurs) where Muslims will sawm (fast) between sunrise and sunset - not eating or drinking. In the pictures, you can see us working in groups to prioritise benefits of sawm from most beneficial to least in a diamond format.

Salvation - Stations of the Cross (Spring)

As we begun our study of the Salvation in RE this term, we started by looking at various artist’s artwork of the stations of the cross which is the final stages before Jesus was crucified. We had to match the description of the stages with the artwork and put them into the correct order.

Gospels - What would Jesus do?

To finalise our study of the Gospels and teachings of Jesus, we wondered how Christians would use Jesus’ teachings to lead their lives. We focused on the teachings from Jesus in the bible on areas such as: foundations, peace, health and healing, generosity, forgiveness and prayer. We asked ourselves what would Jesus do to make our world better now? On card we recorded our opinions on each area completing these sentences:

Jesus’ teaching and example is…

What I learned about Christians was…

A good follower of Jesus would…

My way of making a better world would be…

Gospels - The Sermon on the mount (Spring)

As part of our focus on answering the question  - what would Jesus do? We have started looking at two Gospels: The Wise and Foolish builder and The Sermon on the Mount. In the pictures below, we have brought our attention to the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus met many disciples and shared 15 lessons. In groups, we have taken 15 sayings, one from each teaching, and interpreted what they mean and what Christian could learn from those teachings.

The Kind Stranger - Respect - Autumn

To kick start our focus on respect for our value this term across the school we familarised ourselves with the story of the Kind Stranger/ Good Samaritan. We split the story into ten scenes and then each group was given two scenes to recreate in a freeze frame. Can you work our which is which? 

2022-23

Judaism - Bar and Bat Mitzvah (22.05.23)

We have been understanding Judaism and today we have looked into the jewish 'coming of age' ceremony - Bar and Bat Mitzvah. Bar (son of the) and Bat (daughter of the) Mitzvah (commandments). In Jewish faith, boys aged 13 and girls aged 12, become adults and have their Bar or Bat Mitzvah to mark this stage of their life. Before their Bar/ Bat Mitzvah, children's actions are held responsible to their parents and once they have come of age they are responsible for their own actions through the eyes of god. We created posters to illustrate the differences between the two ceremonies and we tried wearing the kippah, tallit and using the yad to read from the Torah.

The Great Commandment Matthew 22 34-40

Children in class have been looking at 'People of God' this half term and with a focus on Moses. They have unpicked his story and looked into more detail when God gave Moses the 10 commandments. In this lesson, they narrowed their thinking to just two commandments which underpin all the other: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' and 'Love your neighbour as you love yourself.' You can see the children role playing various scenarios where they play out if these two rules are followed and when they are not and look at the different outcomes to their role play.

2021-22

Simchat Torah song

Hebrew Writing and making a Mezzuzah

News Update: The Messiah is here!

We have been investigative reporters looking at written evidence of the coming Messiah from Jewish prophecies and gospel texts. Children then interviewed whitenesses, Mary and Joseph, about the arrive of Jesus (the Messiah) and wrote newspaper reports to share the news.