Year 2- Spring Term Judaism Q3 How Can Faith Contribute to Community Cohesion?

Year 2- Spring Term Judaism Q3 How can faith contribute to community cohesion? Links to Most pupils will be expected to: Key vocabulary other year groups Year 1- Q3 Identify ways in which Jewish1. Synagogue- the building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for How can people show their belief in religious worship and instruction faith God: 2. Kashrut- is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jews are contribute - At home permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish to - At the synagogue law. community Show awareness that Jewish 3. Mitzvah- a precept or commandment. cohesion? people have some religious 4. Torah- the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five Christianity rules books of the Hebrew scriptures which help them to know how 5. Shabbat- day of prayer to 6. Mezuzah a parchment inscribed with religious texts and attached in a case to behave. the doorpost of a Jewish house as a sign of faith Show an awareness of the 7. Sefer Torah a book of Hebrew religious literature. Jewish faith in the community8. Moses- the prophet 9. Rabbi- a Jewish scholar or teacher, especially one who studies or teaches Jewish law. Suggested areas of study Links and suggested activities Show an awareness that Jewish people go to the Talk about special days synagogue and worship at home as well - how do they mark their special days? - Begin to recognise that Jewish people do special things at - Set a Shabbat table and hear about the symbolic rituals home and at the synagogue to express their faith connected with Shabbat Year 2- Spring Term Begin to recognise that Jews believe God has given them - Find out what a Mezuzah is and how it helps Jews to some rules to follow eg express their faith - The Ten Commandments - Make a Mezuzah and create their own text about what is - Kashrut (kosher) Food important in their home to go inside it Identify Mitzvah (duty or good deeds) as important for - Look at pictures of a Sefer Torah and find out how this Jews. Obeying the Torah means giving to those who are is treated in a special way by Jews at the synagogue poor Watch a video about Moses; - Read a children’s version of the Ten Commandments and draw pictures with simple sentences about what they mean. - Talk about and taste some favorite foods and some unpopular foods, moving on to look at some examples of what Jews can and cannot eat. Visit a synagogue, locally or online, or interview a Rabbi to find out about the Jewish faith in England Year 2- Spring Term Judaism Q4 Why are some times special? Links to Most pupils will be expected Key vocabulary other year to: groups Year 1- Q4 Respond to the idea Pesach (Passover) also called Pesach, is a major Jewish holiday that occurs in the Why are that we all celebrate spring on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan some times on special occasions Hanukkah a lesser Jewish festival, lasting eight days from the 25th day of Kislev (in special? Begin to recognise that December) and commemorating the rededication of the Temple in 165 BC by the Christianity some times are special Maccabees after its desecration by the Syrians. It is marked by the successive for Jews kindling of eight lights. Tu B’Shevat Jewish holiday occurring on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat. It is also called Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot, literally 'New Year of the Trees' Israel- a country seder plates a special plate containing symbolic foods eaten or displayed at the Passover Seder ritual feast that marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover. It is conducted throughout the world on the eve of the 15th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar Menorah a candelabrum used in Jewish worship, especially one with eight branches and a central socket used at Hanukkah. Suggested areas of study Links and suggested activities Recognise that people, including themselves, like to Talk about recent celebrations of their own, eg a birthday celebrate on special occasions. Watch a video or hear the story behind Hanukkah and Identify times which are special to Jewish people and Pesach. Role play or retell with puppets celebrated in a special way eg - Make dreidels and play the Year 2- Spring Term - Pesach (Passover) game - Hanukkah - Create models of Hanukkah Menorah (Hanukkah Recognise that at Tu B’Shevat Jews celebrate the gifts of candlestick) and write in the flame shapes about special the natural world and also being connected to others and times which they like to celebrate our inner selves. Jewish school children plant trees as - Make models of seder plates. Label and explain the symbols of this. Some Jews raise money to plant trees in symbols Israel so that they can feel they have roots there and are - Make a Menorah part of the land of Israel .

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