As part of our learning journey exploring places of worship, we had a special visit from Cathy at Re on demand who planned a fantastic session for us about Hinduism. She brought a whole range of religious artefacts with her which every child could observe and discuss in term of Read more…
Today in Class 8, our RE lesson was focused on how the Bible teaches Christians about temptation and how to resist it. We discussed the meaning of ‘temptation’ and watched a video about Genesis 3 – The Fall. This is a Bible story about Adam and Eve ignoring God’s rules Read more…
Today we had a special visitor who came into school to tell us all about the Islam faith. We looked at why certain things are sacred to the Islam faith, such as the Qur’an. We also looked at how Muslims pray and other artefacts that are important to the religion.
Class 11 today took part in an exciting workshop focusing on Hindu worship. The class looked at the story of Rama and Sita and were able to act this out in costume and using a range of artefacts. As always, Class 11 behaved impeccably and learnt a great deal during Read more…
In RE children looked at objects related to Judaism. They thought about what it might be and worked to match it to the correct definition and explanation of the objects.
In RE, we have been looking at the stories and teachings of Jesus and how they guide Christians today. In today’s lesson we focused on the meaning of forgiveness, parables of forgiveness and then explored scenarios and acted them out.
Class 11 have been looking at what freedom means in different religions. As a part of this we encountered meditation and decided as a group to try and focus our minds and meditate for 10 minutes. The class sat on the floor and we went through a number of breathing Read more…
In RE we have been learning all about Christianity and what Christians believe. This week we have looked at the importance of stained glass windows and how they often tell us stories from the Bible. We used powder paints to create our own stained glass windows with lots of lovely Read more…
The children have been learning all about Diwali; the festival of light. They listened to the story of Rama and Sita and made diya lamps from clay and sequins, decorated mehndi patterns and rangoli patterns using coloured sand. Then they learnt the story of Guy Fawkes and listened to how Read more…
Our RE topic this half term is ‘Why is Jesus inspiring?’ and over the last couple of weeks, we have been learning about who Jesus was and what he did. As part of this topic, we looked at several images of Jesus and thought about why the artists had depicted Read more…