Religious Education (RE): Blog items
Date: 3rd Jul 2019 @ 8:24am
Year 5 have been learning about Judaism during this half-term. At the beginning of the topic they explored the reasons why we have rules and ranked the Boundary Promises in order of importance. Through drama, the children imagined what school would be like without any rules. Moving back to Judaism, they researched the religion and produced a fact file showing some of the features. The main focus of the unit was the Torah. In pairs, the children have produced PowerPoint slides and presented their information all about the Torah. The children have been able to their new learning to other religions and their own lives.
Date: 20th Jun 2019 @ 9:36am
This week, DJ Kash came to visit us to tell us all about her religion of Sikhism. She led an assembly on Monday morning and we then we took part in a class workshop. This involved DJ Kash telling us more about Sikhism and her way of life. We finished it off with some 'Bollywood' dancing.
Date: 19th Jun 2019 @ 3:45pm
We have been lucky to have DJ Cash visit our school this week, who is a Sikh lady. She brought lots of artefacts for us to look at and discuss and we took part in a dance workshop celebrating the culture and beginning to understand about Sikhism. We all enjoyed the dancing after our mock wedding ceremony. We listened and learnt about the 10 Sikh Gurus, learnt about the holy book and we talked about how Sikhs are peaceful, tolerant and forgiving people, with three core values: Pray to God, you have to work and share with those less fortunate.
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 2:26pm
Today, we welcomed Hindu visitors (via Zoom!) to Year 6.
They started their talk about being a Hindu in general; they explained about the different types of Hindus, prayer, chants and the special clothes they sometimes wear.
They explained the 4 Ashramas and the stage they are currently in. The main focus was their belief in reincarnation and karma and how this has an impact on the choices and actions they makes in life.
Religious Education; a summary of our learning so far
Date: 15th Dec 2020 @ 2:27pm
At Boundary, our curious and tolerant children have had a busy few weeks learning lots about different religions and we can’t wait to share what we have done…
Reception have been busy learning about the Christmas story and filming our nativity in their outdoor area. They loved dressing up and re-enacting the nativity play.
This half term in Year 1 for RE, the children have been learning all about Jesus and the Christmas Story. They have learnt about the roles of a family and why babies are special. They have read the Christmas Story and then ordered the events. This week, they worked together in groups, to sort out Christmas cards into ones with a religious meaning and ones without.
Year 2 having been exploring the question…
Why do Christians say that Jesus is the ‘Light of the World’?
They children have learnt about how lights are used by Christians in celebration and to mark special events, what advent means and how they can be a light to other people!
Year 3 have been learning about Islam and who Muslims follow. They have learnt about the characteristics that the prophet Mohammed showed and how Muslims can be charitable. The children have reflected on this and how they can apply it to the role models in our lives.
In Year 4, they have been learning about Christianity and how Christians show love to everyone. The children have done this by looking at parables such as The Good Samaritan and The Unforgiving Servant. These parables have told them that it is important to ‘Love thy neighbour’ and treat everyone around them with care and respect.
This term in Year 5 they have been learning about Islam. They looked at Ramadan, The 5 Pillars of Islam, The Holy Qur’an and Hajj.
The Holy book of Islam is the Qur’an, Muslims clean themselves in water that has been blessed, before they hold it. – Lacey-Morgan
The pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) is one of the five pillars of Islam and Muslims must do it at least once in their life if they are physically capable of it. Ihram is the name given to the special spiritual state in which pilgrims wear two white sheets of seamless cloth during their pilgrimage. – Myles
Year 6 children have been learning about the Hindu belief in reincarnation, karma and the 4 Ashramas (stages of life). The children have reflected on the milestones they have achieved in their lives already and possible future ones.
