Religious Education (RE): Blog items
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.
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 11:16am
The children in Reception were invited to bring their favourite teddy bear into school. As a class we talked about our teddies, what they were called. what they looked like and why they were special to us. We discussed how teddy bears have changed over time, comparing teddy bear in the past to teddy bears in the present day. Mrs Clark showed us her mum's teddy bear which was sixty years old. We then sorted the different pictures of teddy bears into past and present.
"Teddy bears now are colourful" Mathew
"Teddy bears in the past are made from brown material" Oliver
"You can get lots of different characters" Isabelle
""Present means it is today" Summer
"The past mean it has already happened" Isla
"Mrs Clark's teddy was made a long time ago" Esmai
Year 5 - Holi vanilla biscuits
Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 3:49pm
Today has been a busy day in year 5. We have learned about food hygiene, evaluated existing biscuits, designed, made and decorated biscuits to celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi. Now all we need to do is eat them!
Acorns - Chinese New Year Celebrations
Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 4:12pm
This week Acorns have been exploring Chinese New Year. We have enjoyed exploring different artificats relating to the Chinese New year through our Bucket activities and tuff trays. We have enjoyed beating the drums to chinese music and watching the dragon dance before experiencing our own dragon dance. We had lots of fun following the dragon around and running in and out of its body when it came to class.
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 1:06pm
This half term we have been looking at Hindu Dharma in RE. We have looked at different Gods and Goddesses and how they are represented as Murtis on s shrine. The children had the opportunity to look at a shrine which was created in school and learn about home worship. They had lots of fun finding out information about the religion, especially the different Gods and Goddesses.
Date: 6th Feb 2024 @ 3:36pm
In RE today we finished out unit on Christianity by considering the questions 'How have we changed so far in our lives? How might we change in the future?' We also discussed where we can look for help and guidance as we grow up.
Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 7:39am
We began todays lesson by recapping on the key features of our religion for this half term, using accurate vocabulary. We then watched two videos, which told us two Islamic stories, ‘The Prophet and the Ants’ and ‘The Crying Camel’ We discussed each story together, thinking about why Muslims might think that is it important to teach children to care for all living things. We learnt that Muslims believe in one God who created the world with the view that all living things should be cared for.
Date: 15th Jan 2024 @ 8:57am
To introduce the children to our new R.E topic the children visited St Mark’s Church. We learnt all about disciples and how people show they are disciples to God and Jesus today.
Year 5 - Digital Learning in RE
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 4:46pm
To support the pupils' learning in RE, we have been using an online resource called Kahoot!. Kahoot! is an interactive quiz that engages the pupils and helps them to learn the facts and knowledge required in the lesson. Using the Kahoot! over time also helps the children to commit the new knowledge to their long-term memory.
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 2:55pm
Today we began to discuss our key question in RE, ‘How might beliefs about creation affect the way people treat the world?’ We began by learning the name of the religion we will be learning about and that Muslims believe there is only one God – Allah. Todays lesson involved learning about how we should treat the environment, why it is important and whose responsibility it is. We did this through looking at images and real life nature examples. We went on a nature walk to collect lots of natural resources and we then used these natural resources to create transient nature pictures. After this, we looked at a number of images and decided which are examples of looking after the environment and which are not. We sorted them together, verbally discussing and justifying each example.
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 1:58pm
After learning about the Christmas story Year 3 created pictures representing the birth of Jesus.
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 11:22am
As we get closer to Christmas, pupils in year 5 were asked to use the art skills we learned earlier in the year to produce a Nativity image. Using pencils, pupils sketched images of the Nativity over an ancient map of the Holy Land.
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 10:37am
Today we completed a piece of Art to show an important aspect of the Christmas Nativity story. We recapped on the key events in the story, the order they happen and the important characters. We then chose which scene we wanted to use to inspire our own artwork and completed our own version of this.
Nursery Sing Christmas Sing Along
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 1:23pm
Nursery put on a very festive sing along in our garden this week. We invited our families and we had a lovely time singing the Christmas songs we have been busy learning. The children sang brillinatly and gave everyone some Christmas cheer!
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 11:46am
Today we used our Art pathway skills (Storytelling through drawing) to draw and paint a scene from the Christmas Story. We used the medium of watercolours for the background and we used a stencil to cut out a silhouette for Mary, Joseph and the donkey.
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 12:19pm
Over the past week the children have been learning about the story off first Christmas and why Christmas is an important time of year for Christians. We have been retelling the story in our own words at the story telling. We have also been practicing our nativty and learning our songs. We enjoyed performing to the other children in school and can wait to perform for our families and friends.
"Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem" Isla
"There was no room so they went into a stable" Esmai
"Jesus was born in the stable" George
"The angels told the shepherds to go to see Jesus" Oliver
"The kings brought some presents; gold, frankinsence and myrrh"
Date: 15th Dec 2023 @ 1:42pm
This week we were lucky enough to visit St Mark’s Church in Layton. We met Reverend Matthew and told him everything that we have learnt about Christianity so far. Reverend Matthew then read the nativity story to us and we all joined in with different parts. He taught us about the key messages in the story and the roles of different characters. We then learnt about the advent wreath and the symbolism of the different candles. Finally we looked around the church and asked and answered lots of questions about features of the church.
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 6:57pm
What a lovely community event we attended this evening - the Walking Nativity. The choir performed two songs and played a part in acting out the Christmas story with our friends from Christ the King ⭐🎶
Key Stage 2 Choir Perform at Abingdon Street Market
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 10:37am
