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Looking at All 6 Religions Year 5/6 Key Skills to Be Covered, Taken from National Curriculum – Pitching at the Correct Year Gr Year 56 A3A Religion Medium term planner Texts and Images Looking at all 6 religions Year 5/6 Key Skills to be covered, taken from National Curriculum – pitching at the correct year group and differentiation within plan for different groups Be specific in the key skills, and make them more understandable for children. Consider what it is YOU feel the children should learn as well as the National Curriculum: • Children can identify and read from selected religious texts • Children can compare and contrast elements of different faiths. • Children can see how different world religions use sacred texts to spread their knowledge. • Children can identify the main features of world religions. • I can understand and interpret sacred texts. • Children can empathise with the traditions of world faiths. Possible Cross -curricular links, especially opportunitie s for English, Mathematics and Computing within teaching: English links Links with stories from other cultures. Writing non-fiction texts Comprehension and understanding of a range of texts. Speaking, listening and presenting skills. Mathematics links Computing links Computing links through researching about the different religious traditions and texts. http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Religion.html Other links Links with Geography – where religions are spread throughout the world – Global influence and impact. Possible Experiences in cluding visits/visitors/other: Consider what could augment your planning to really enthuse the children in your class: • Possible visits to religious institutes. • Visits from the different religious figures. Display/Resources ideas: Consider what resources could be brought into the classroom and what display work could be completed either before/during or after topic is taught: • Possible multi-faith displays but must be aware of how the texts are displayed to ensure that they are kept in keeping with religious traditions and wishes. • Non-fiction books could be created to show facts about the sacred texts. Session Key Objective from Possible Activities including use of Computing and Vocabulary to be Outcomes/Evidence of Possible extension skills listed above other technologies, and showing at least 3 taught and used in what they have learnt into homework if (What is it that you differentiations their work correctly (Where will this be found? appropriate to want the children to Will it be in a book? Topic enhance and deepen learn?) book? Display? learning Photographic evidence? 1 Christianity http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/religion/christian.htm Christianity Children can re-tell a bible story Find a story from Identify the main features Bible from the New Testament. Christianity, which you have of the Christian sacred Children use the link above to find out about the origins of the Priest, Vicar, Minister chosen and re-tell in your text. bible and to find out why it is so important to the Christian faith. God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Old own way. What are the differences between the Old and New Testaments? and New Testament. How is the new testament split up? Church Year 56 A3A Religion Medium term planner Texts and Images What are the gospels and how do they differ? proverb What are the key messages of the New Testament? Children to answer these questions using a range of different versions of the bible. How is the bible stored? Does it have any special treatment? Can anyone access the bible? Children choose a story from the New Testament and read it. They then re-tell it in their own words. LA – children read a selected bible story from the NEW TESTAMENT and re-tell it in the form of a comic strip. MA – children have to re-tell a story from the New Testament in their own words. HA children have to re-tell a story from the New Testament and have to add a moral to the story to explain their own view of the story’s messages and moral. HOW ARE IMAGES USED IN RELATION TO THE HOLY TEXT IN THIS FAITH? 2 Buddhism http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/religion/buddhism.htm Buddhism Children can identify the Personal research on the Identify the main features What are the Holy books of Buddhism and how do Buddhists use Dalai Lama importance of the Stupa and the elements of Buddhism. of the Buddhist them? Temple religious texts of the Dalai Lama. Sacred text. How does the Stupa differ from the Bible? Sanskrit Children can compare How are the two texts similar? Mantra and contrast elements Write down key information about the Stupa. of different faiths. Compare and contrast in a table the similarities and the differences between the Stupa and the Bible. HOW ARE IMAGES USED IN RELATION TO THE HOLY TEXT IN THIS FAITH? Children write 10 rules for a happy life. Children have to write 10 things, which they feel, could help them live a happy life. LA – children with some support write a list of 10 things they feel would help them with a happy life. MA – children independently write 10 things they feel can be the key to a happy and fulfilled life. HA – children write 10 mantras for a happy life. 3 Islam http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/religion/Islam.htm Qur’an, Muslim, Islam the The Qu’ran Find out more about the Identify the main features What is the Qu-ran? How is it used in worship and within the prophet Muhamad (peace Qur’an and how it is used in of the Islamic sacred text. Islamic faith? be upon him). worship. How is the Qur’an cared for and treated. Are there any Mosque Children can see how similarities and differences between this text and the previous Mecca different world religions two studied? Year 56 A3A Religion Medium term planner Texts and Images use sacred texts to What does the Qur’an teach Muslims? How does this vary from spread their knowledge. the current perception of the Islamic faith? HOW ARE IMAGES USED IN RELATION TO THE HOLY TEXT IN THIS FAITH? 4 Judaism http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/religion/jewish.htm Torah Children can re-tell a story from Identify the main features Why does the Old Testament appear in both the Jewish and Synagogue the Torah (Old Testament). of the Jewish sacred texts. Christians faiths? Jewish I can understand and Look at the 10 commandments – what do you think each one Judaism interpret sacred texts. means? Abraham Children can write their own 10 Re-write them in a modern day translation. Scrolls commandments and discuss their Commandments. choices for laws. Children can also TASK – CHILDREN TO WRITE THEIR OWN 10 COMANDMENTS Proverb and prophet discuss their own laws and say what 10 laws they would decide are crucial for people in the 21 st why religious laws/rules exist. century to follow. Why have they chosen some laws and not others? LA – children to work as a group with support to write 10 new commandments that they all have to agree on. MA – children to work in pairs to create 10 new commandments. They need to write them in the order of importance to them. HA – children to write 10 commandments in pairs, order them in importance and be able to provide reasons for their choices. 5 Sikhism http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/religion/sikhism.html Guru Granth Sahib Draw a picture of the Guru Identify the main features What is the Guru Granth Sahib? Why do Sikhs treat the Holy text Temple Granth Sahib which can be of the Sikh sacred text. as a person? Sikh used as a part of the Why do you think this book is so important to the Sikh faith? Children can empathise with the classroom display. Children can empathise What do you think Christians could learn from the Sikh faith? followers of the Sikh faith and can with the traditions of What do you think are the negatives and positives of holding a relate and respect the traditions world faiths. Holy book in such high esteem? of Sikhism. HOW ARE IMAGES USED IN RELATION TO THE HOLY TEXT IN THIS FAITH? MIXED ABILITY TASK – differentiated by outcome: Draw a picture of your favourite book and say why it is your favourite book. What makes it special and how do you treat the book because of its importance. 6 Hinduism http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/religion/hinduism.htm The Vedas ( Holy Scripture) Children are able to compare and Identify the main features Collect initial information about the sacred text of Hinduism and Temple contrast the sacred texts and of the Hindu Holy Texts. use this information to compare and contrast this Holy Text to Compare/contrast images from the 6 main world the other texts we have studied over the past 6 weeks. What are religions. Compare and contrast the the main features of The Vedas and how are they used? religious Holy texts. The children can discuss their MAIN TASK TODAY – compare the texts of the 6 main world opinions of each text in a sensitive faiths. and considered way. Use these headings to compare and contrast. Year 56 A3A Religion Medium term planner Texts and Images 1) What is the Holy Text used for? Children have produced a 2) Where did the Holy Text originate? comparison table of the main 3) How is the sacred text treated? features of each religious text ( 4) Who can access the text? texts) 5) How important are the sacred texts to the religion. 6) 6) HOW ARE IMAGES USED IN RELATION TO THE HOLY TEXT IN THIS FAITH? DIFFERENTIATED TASKS LA – Children compare any two of the headings above and as a group draw conclusions. MA – Compare and contrast 4 elements with some support. HA – Compare and contrast with detailed observations all the above comparison criteria.
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