As part of our faith day today, we have been working hard on creating some beautiful Rangoli patterns and designs linked to Diwali!
Crew Knowles – Faith Day
Category : RE in action
Class Spetch – RE – Reincarnation
This morning, we have explored the Hinduism’s belief of reincarnation. We discussed how having Good and Bad karma can effect what happens in the circle of life. The children then completed their own life cycles.
Year 6 : RE – Christian rites of passage
This half term we have learnt about the rites of passage in Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism and then this week Christianity. Today, we explored the differences and similarities been infant baptism, believer’s baptism, confirmation and Holy communion. We used the videos linked below to help develop our knowledge.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/articles/zm32nrd
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/articles/z7xhy9q
Nursery- Indian food tasting
To continue our learning about Diwali today we have listened to the story Shubh Diwali.
We then used our senses to smell, touch and taste some Indian foods. Some children showed courage by trying something new, you can see by their faces if they enjoyed the taste or not. Mango Chutney was a big hit with many children and they enjoyed dipping naan breads and popadoms into it.
Y4 Preparing Diwa lamps
To build on our learning about the Hindu celebration of Diwali, Y4 made their clay Diwa lamps ready for our Faith Day on Friday!
Year 3 – RE: How do Jews celebrate Pesach?
Friday’s RE lesson followed on from our previous lesson which taught us all about the story of The Exodus which is the reason for the Jewish celebration of Pesach (Passover). In this lesson we learnt about how Jews celebrate this special occasion together with a special meal called the Seder, where each item of the meal represents a different part of the story.
Why not ask us why they prepare lamb on the bone, a hard boiled egg and eat matzah (flat bread made without yeast)? Or, you could ask us why they dip sweet leaves into salted water and eat a bitter herb?
EYFS – Harvest festival with Pastor Kevin
A huge thank you for Pastor Kevin for coming in to school to talk to EYFS about Harvest festival. The children always enjoy the songs and stories you share.
Class 8: being theologians!
In RE today, we read a new Hindu story together. It was about a lady who wanted to meet God but she told different people to ‘go away’. It turned out that God was in all of those people- God was the kindness inside of them. We took a photo to show ways that we thought you could show kindness to others.
You could give hugs, hold hands, show respect, blow kisses, smile or give a love heart sign.
What a great story!
Class 6 RE
In our RE session this afternoon we focused our recent learning on the 6 main religions in the UK on Christianity. We found out about their Holy book and place of worship and discussed the ceremonies carried out in Church. We finished our lovely peaceful afternoon by colouring bookmarks showing some Christian symbols.
Well done everyone x
Year 3: RE – Why do Jews celebrate Pesach?
In our Religious Education session this week, we continued our learning about Moses and the Exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. We learned about their hurried meal of lamb and a flat bread called matzah, and we found out that the Jewish faith remembers and celebrates this important time in their religion via the holiday of Passover (or, Pesach in Hebrew). To consolidate our learning, we sorted reasons for the Exodus into True and False … luckily, we weren’t caught out by any of the red herrings!
We have really been enjoying learning all about the stories of the Jewish religion, why not ask us about how the Jews were told to protect their first born sons from the tenth plague of Egypt?
