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Jewish Faith 152 Jewish Faith 152 Jewish Faith Key Stage1 Key Question 1: Why are these words special? Most pupils will be expected Suggested areas of study Links and suggested activities to: • Recognise that everyone has • Identify stories and books that • Bring in a book or talk about a favourite stories or books that are they regard as special or story which is their favourite, or special to them important important to them, and talk about why they like it. - Hear some popular children’s stories which have a meaning and talk about what the meaning or message might be • Begin to recognise some key • Begin to recognise some stories • Watch a video or hear stories stories from the Torah and from the Torah eg from the Torah, act them out suggest what they might mean - Creation (Genesis 1-2) and talk about what the message - Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6-8) of these might be for Jews - Moses in the Bulrushes (Exodus 2) • Suggest meanings for some • Ask questions about why these • Draw a picture of the story. stories which have a special stories are special and what they • Retell the stories using ‘Godly significance might mean Play’ • Recognise that the Torah is a • Find out about how the Torah is • Look at some pictures of Torah special book for Jews treated by Jews to show that it is scrolls and hear about how they special are treated in a special way Skills and attitudes Cross curricular links • P4C • English • Understanding of a different faith • Drama • Art • SMSC Websites and Publications • Useful Jewish websites (KS1, 2 and 3) please see page 177 • Useful Jewish publications (KS1, 2 and 3) please see page 169 • Acronyms used within this section – please see page 169 Barnsley Local Agreed Syllabus © BMBC 2020 Jewish Faith 153 Jewish Faith Key Stage 1 Key Question 2: Why are some places special? Most pupils will be expected Suggested areas of study Links and suggested activities to: • Recognise that some places are • Identify and talk about their own • Think quietly about a special special and identify a special special places: place of their own and draw place of their own - Why they are special pictures/write poems about how - What they do there they feel when they are there - How they feel there • Show awareness that: • Recognise the interior of a • Use a picture pack or images - the synagogue is a special synagogue: from the Internet to see what the place for Jewish people - Bimah inside of a synagogue looks - a synagogue is a place - Aron Hakodesh like, and some of the things where Jews gather - Screen Jewish people do there together, worship and - Ask questions about some - Visit a local synagogue celebrate of the things that happen in and see and hear about a synagogue some of its features • Show awareness that Jerusalem • Hear stories about Jerusalem • Look at a children’s atlas and is a special place for Jews from the Jewish scriptures, eg the find Jerusalem story of King David and the Ark - Look at pictures of parts of of the Covenant (2 Samuel 6) the city eg - The Western Wall (Wailing Wall) - The Temple Mount • Role play or use puppets to replay the stories of David (or other stories) Skills and attitudes Cross curricular links • Investigation • Art • P4C • English • Understanding of a different faith • PSHE • Geography • Drama Barnsley Local Agreed Syllabus © BMBC 2020 Jewish Faith 154 Jewish Faith Key Stage 1 Key Question 3: How can faith contribute to Community Cohesion? Most pupils will be expected Suggested areas of study Links and suggested activities to: • Identify ways in which Jewish • Show an awareness that Jewish • Talk about special days - how do people show their belief in God: people go to the synagogue and they mark their special days? - At home worship at home as well - Set a Shabbat table and - At the synagogue - Begin to recognise that hear about the symbolic Jewish people do special rituals connected with things at home and at the Shabbat synagogue to express - Find out what a Mezuzah is their faith and how it helps Jews to express their faith - Make a Mezuzah and create their own text about what is important in their home to go inside it - Look at pictures of a Sefer Torah and find out how this is treated in a special way by Jews at the synagogue • Show awareness that Jewish • Begin to recognise that Jews • Watch a video about Moses; people have some religious rules believe God has given them some - Read a children’s version which help them to know how to rules to follow eg of the Ten behave - The Ten Commandments Commandments and draw - Kashrut (kosher) Food pictures with simple laws sentences about what they mean, creating a mural for the classroom wall - Talk about and taste some favourite foods and some unpopular foods, moving on to look at some examples of what Jews can and cannot eat - Set up a Jewish home or kitchen corner • Show an awareness of the • Identify Mitzvah (duty or good • Visit a synagogue, locally or Jewish faith in the community deeds) as important for Jews. online, or interview a Rabbi to Obeying the Torah means giving find out about the Jewish faith in to those who are poor England Skills and attitudes Cross curricular links • Investigation • PSHE • British Values • Art • Understanding of a different faith • English • P4C • ICT • Citizenship Barnsley Local Agreed Syllabus © BMBC 2020 Jewish Faith 155 Jewish Faith Key Stage 1 Key Question 4: Why are some times special? Most pupils will be expected Suggested areas of study Links and suggested activities to: • Respond to the idea that we all • Recognise that people, including • Talk about recent celebrations of celebrate on special occasions themselves, like to celebrate on their own, eg a birthday special occasions • Begin to recognise that some • Identify times which are special to • Watch a video or hear the story times are special for Jews Jewish people and celebrated in a behind Hanukkah and Pesach. special way eg Role play or retell with puppets - Pesach (Passover) - Make dreidels and play the - Hanukkah game - Create models of Hanukkah Menorah (Hanukkah candlestick) and write in the flame shapes about special times which they like to celebrate - Make models of seder plates. Label and explain the symbols - Make a Menorah • Recognise that at Tu B’Shevat • Find out about Tu B’Shevat and Jews celebrate the gifts of the how Jews collect money in natural world and also being England connected to others and our inner - Look at the school selves. Jewish school children environment and talk about plant trees as symbols of this. the importance of trees and Some Jews raise money to plant ‘roots’ trees in Israel so that they can - Where would pupils like to feel they have roots there and are plant a tree in order to have part of the land of Israel a bit of themselves there? - Who do they feel most connected to? - What would they like to say ‘thank you’ for in the natural world? - This work could form a display Skills and attitudes Cross curricular links • Investigation • Understanding of a different faith • English • Drama • DT • Science • PSHE Barnsley Local Agreed Syllabus © BMBC 2020 Jewish Faith 156 Jewish Faith Key Stage 1 Key Question 5: What can be learnt from the lives of significant people of faith? Most pupils will be expected Suggested areas of study Links and suggested activities to: • Begin to recognise that Jewish • Show awareness that Jewish • Hear about Kashrut (Kosher) children learn from older children learn from their parents kitchen and play a matching members of the faith, including how to keep a Kashrut (Kosher) game, matching pictures to the their family home heading ‘Kashrut’ and ‘not Kashrut’ • Understand that some people are • Identify the rabbi as a person • Look at pictures in a picture pack trained to teach others, eg a who teaches about Jewish laws which show a rabbi teaching. rabbi and living Learn some simple laws that children learn eg - Do not lie - Care for others Invent role plays or make up stories in which children put these laws into action • Understand that some stories are • Recognise some Jewish stories • Watch a video or hear some largely passed down orally which might be handed down Jewish stories which Jewish within families eg children might enjoy hearing at - Joseph (Genesis 37 – 50), home - Daniel in the lions’ den - Talk about what these (Daniel 6) stories mean for people - Queen Esther (book of today Esther) • Identify people who teach and • Identify a list of people who teach • Think about someone who influence them them teaches them eg a parent, teacher, older sibling or grandparent - Draw pictures of this person and write some simple things they have learned from them Skills and attitudes Cross curricular links • Investigation • PSHE • History • English • Drama • Art Barnsley Local Agreed Syllabus © BMBC 2020 Jewish Faith 157 Jewish Faith Key Stage1 Key Question 6: How do I and others feel about life and the universe around us? Most pupils will be expected Suggested areas of study Links and suggested activities to: • Identify difficult or puzzling • Suggest meanings which might • Watch a video or hear some questions that might arise from be found in stories which raise Jewish stories that raise puzzling some Jewish stories difficult questions eg questions. - Daniel in the lions’ den: - talk about some of those righteousness and salvation; puzzling questions and (Daniel 6) about the fact that - Noah; anger, judgement and sometimes questions are promise (Genesis 6 -9) difficult to answer - Abraham and Isaac; • Use ‘Godly Play’ to further their sacrifice, duty and obedience understanding (Genesis 21 – 22) • Respond sensitively to difficult or • Ask questions about experiences • Hear secular stories which deal puzzling questions relating to of their own which are difficult or with sensitive issues they might their own experiences and those puzzling eg the death of a pet have experienced eg of others .
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