Religious Education (RE): Blog items
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 4:49pm
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 9:10pm
This week Acorns have been exploring Diwali.
We have enjoyed all the bright colours and light associated with Diwali.
Acorns explored different clothing that people wear, drawing and creating rangoli patterns and creating their very own Diva lamps. We enjoyed moulding our salt dough and making a choice of which colours to decorate them with.
Date: 12th Nov 2024 @ 1:32pm
As part of our Remembrance service, Year 5 made and planted poppies in our remembrance garden. Each of the children wrote names of soldiers and we thought about their sacrifice when we planted them. The children also took part in our whole school act of remembrance.
Date: 5th Nov 2024 @ 9:34pm
This week the children have been learning about the Sikh and Hindu elebration of Divali. The children have been learning about how people prepare for the festival and comparing this to how Christain prepare for Christmas. They have been creating their own rangoli patterns, making Diva lamps out of salt dough, writing Divali cards and exploring different artefacts at the Divali table.
Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 9:20am
Acorns have been reading Room on the Broom, while exploring Halloween this week. We have enjoyed our sensory story, using props and puppets while listening to the story.
We have participated in lots of spooky activities to support or learning.
We loved using our sensory and messy trays to support and engage with maths activities, develop our fine motor skills and developing our social skills alongside each other.
During Arts and crafts we created pumpkins and ghosts.
Date: 21st Oct 2024 @ 1:59pm
During the final week of the first half term, we had a discussion about who inspires us to show goodness in the world and compared our role models.
Next, we created some rangoli patterns using coloured rice. Rangoli, which means rows of colours, is drawn on the entrance and filled with colours during Diwali. They are used to welcome guests and Lakshmi into homes. We took our time creating the intricate patterns and created some brilliant art work!
Year 6 - Symbolism and words used in Christian ceremonies
Date: 17th Oct 2024 @ 3:40pm
In our latest RE lesson, we explored how words and actions can convey meaning in Christian ceremonies. We looked at the words used in baptism, the symbolism used in holy communion and the symbolism of the rings in mariage ceremonies. We worked in small groups to answer questions about what we had learned.
Date: 17th Oct 2024 @ 9:47am
In RE we have been learning all about Christianity (God) and we focused on the question of how (and why) have some people served God? We began thinking of what makes a good leader and discussed different famous people that have been leaders and role models to people in the past. We shared our opinions with one another and created a booklet for the qualities that makes a good leader. We recapped what is the bible? What is the old testament? We then read and understood all about the two stories, ‘story of the Moses’ and ‘Noah’s Ark.’ In pairs we shared our ideas as to what do we learn from the stories? Why do you think Christians follow God? We then compared the two stories thinking about how people felt when they heard God? As a class we discussed what life of service means and then looked at three Christians who have served a life of service. We thought about their role, the impact they had on other people and how they had a positive effect on others by being helpful. We discussed what the word vocation means and linked it to the role of a church leader. We researched how a church leader serves in church, but also in the community. We then carried our research as a class to find out about The Salvation Army and how it links to how Christians serve others? We shared ideas as to what Christians do for the community and the positive impact the Salvation Army has on the world. We applied everything we have learnt to then our personal life to think, are we good examples to others? Also, who inspires us?
Date: 17th Oct 2024 @ 8:22am
In RE this half term, we have asked ourselves ‘Why is it sometimes difficult to do the right thing?’ and considered this question through the teachings of Christianity. We have thought about the meaning of temptation, sin and forgiveness. To aid our understanding, we listened to the parables, The Fall and The Lost Son from the Bible and challenged ourselves to compare how forgiveness was shown in both stories. In class, pupils role –played the parts of Adam and Eve and were subjected to questioning by their peers about their actions. We also thought about the metaphorical and literal meanings of the story of The Fall and the children gave some very thoughtful answers. To try to answer our question, we discussed the temptations in the modern day world and how this may lead Christians to commit a sin. We looked at how Christians seek forgiveness through various practices in the Protestant and Catholic churches and compared these. Finally, we thought about what right and wrong looks like for us as individuals and created a moral compass poster to demonstrate our beliefs.
Year 2- Does how we treat the world matter?
Date: 17th Oct 2024 @ 8:00am
This half term in R.E, the children have been learning all about Christianity and how Christians believe that God created the world. We have looked at the Creation Story of how God created the world in 7 days. We then went on to learn all about Harvest and why this is an important celebration for Christians, as this is the time where they thank God for food that He has provided. At the end of the topic, we reflected on how we can make a difference to our world, as it is our responsibility to look after it.
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 4:06pm
Acorns have been exploring and celebrating Harvest. Today we have been making bread.
We had lots of fun mixing the ingredients and trying to knead the dough.
Our bread rolls turned out great. Have a look.
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 5:26pm
For our final lesson in our current Christianity unit of work we talked about our own identities as part of a family and part of the school community. We talked about where we each belong, and recorded this through the use of widget. We also discussed how we would show a new child in our school that they were welcome and how we could help them to feel like they belong.
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 2:21pm
Acorns have enjoyed exploring and learning about Harvest this week. We have learnt about the different crops we can harvest and the role of the farmer.
We enjoyed using our tractor in the sensory tray and digging for different vegetables. We loved using the vegetables to print and mark make with.
Date: 25th Sep 2024 @ 7:07pm
Today we had a visit from Reverend Thompson. He came into our classroom to tell us about his job and talk to us about baptism. We revisited our previous learning about baptism with Reverend Thompson and the important artifacts, such as the font, candle and water. He also told us the important part the Godparents and vicar play in a baptism ceremony. Reverend Thompson showed us how he conducts a baptism and explained to us that new members of the congregation are also given a candle as a symbol of light.
Date: 17th Jun 2024 @ 5:01pm
In RE this week we have learnt the story of Noah's Ark. We read the story together, talking about the characters, key events and the meaning behind the story. We then retold the story together, before creating our own storyboards.
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 4:27pm
Today we looked at the use of Murti in Hindu worship. We learnt that Murtis are often colourful and bright and that Hindus give offerings to them. We then looked at lots of different examples of Murtis, including both Gods and Goddesses, and looked at why Hindus may worship them. We then chose a Murti to represent using salt dough, thinking about why Hindus may choose this Murti to worship. Again, we discussed how these are used as a way of showing respect to the different roles of God.
Date: 13th May 2024 @ 4:23pm
What a great morning we have had with Krishna our Hindu visitor. Firstly, we had a whole school assembly where we recapped the story of Diwali and were introduced to the characters. When we returned to class we recap what we had learnt so far this year about different religions including a 'flash back' to our work on Divali.
"It is the festival of light' Esmai
"They have diva lamps in the windows' Mathew
'They wear bright clothes and have a special meal with their family" Sid
"It is the festival of Light" Levi
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 7:54am
Yesterday, Year Two welcomed Matt from from Hope Community Church who came to talk to us as part of our current RE unit- Christianity The Church exploring the key question 'What unites the Christian community?' Matt discussed the symbols of Christianity with us before discussing different items found in a church and the uses they have, he also taught us why Christians come together on a Sunday to pray, sing and read stories from the Bible. Lastly, he talked about baptism and allowed some of us to perfrom a baptism as well as sharing bread and juice with those who wished to take part.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 4:53pm
We had all been looking forward to meeting our visitor and learning lots about Hinduism! This morning we enjoyed a whole school assembly which taught us about respect in Hinduism, the Hindu shrine and the story of Rama and Sita. This afternoon we then took part in a pracitcal workshop to learn about the use of murti in Hindu worship through storytelling, music, dance and dressing up!
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 1:02pm
What a great morning we have had with Krishna our Hindu visitor. Firstly, we had a whole school assembly where we recapped the story of Diwali and were introduced to the characters. Then, we introduced to the Hindu shrine and the murtis on the shrine. After break, we had a go at dressing up and had such good fun learning why Hindus wearing the items they do.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 9:39am
This morning the whole school was involved in a whole school assembly that centred around the religion of Hinduism. Our visitor - Krishna - gave us lots of background information about the religion, including the story of Rama and Sita and why oil lamps are lit. We also learned about each of the gods and the role they play. It was a very interesting and informative assembly.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 9:35am
This morning the whole school was involved in a whole school assembly that centred around the religion of Hinduism. Our visitor - Krishna - gave us lots of background information about the religion, including the story of Rama and Sita and why oil lamps are lit. We also learned about each of the gods and the role they play. It was a very interesting and informative assembly.
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 11:35am
Over the past few weeks the children in Reception have been learning about why Christains celebrate Easter. We have listened to the Easter story and talked about the different events leading up to Jesus' crucification. We found out that Jesus was crucified on a cross on Good Friday . Then people took his body to a tomb but when his friends visited his body had gone. We talked about how Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead. As a class we discussed the different ways people including Christians celebrate Easter. To help us remember the importance of Easter we made our own cross on a hill.
"Jesus died at Easter" Oliver
"He came backnto life and went to be with God" Isabelle.
"I go to church with my family" Sid
"My mummy and daddy get me Easter eggs" Alaiya
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 11:36am
In RE, we looked at the Vaisakhi festival. We looked at traditional jewellery and clothing, learnt about the traditions of the festival and even got to try some traditional foods. We had a great time and enjoyed learning about a different culture.
Date: 20th Mar 2024 @ 7:41am
Yesterday, Year Two made Challah bread using salt dough. This was to explore the traditional, weekly, tradition of Shabbat that is celebrated from the sunset on Friday evening to the sunset on Saturday night as part of our Judaism unit. They traditionally make two loaves which represent the food God provided for the Jews when they were walking through the desert in flight from Egypt.
