KS1 RE - Special Words and Stories - Personal Beliefs!

In this engaging and important lesson, students explore the concepts of facts and beliefs. They discover how people have many different beliefs, and that Christians believe the words and stories of the Bible. They explore the Easter Story, recognising that there are elements of religious stories such as this that require faith and belief.

The learning is guided by a clear and colourful PowerPoint presentation, which guides students through the following step-by-step journey:
-Reflecting on and recalling knowledge that they already have of the Bible;
-Defining the key terms ‘fact’ and ‘belief’ and differentiating between the two;
-Understanding that the Bible is the text that forms of the basis of Christian beliefs, and watching a Bible story about Jesus’ death and resurrection;
-Discussing how some elements of the Easter story cannot be proven to be true, but are widely-held Christian beliefs;
-Completing a creative, extended learning activity based on designing Easter Gardens.
-Self-reflecting on the extent to which they feel they have met the learning objective.

This resource pack includes the comprehensive PowerPoint presentation (16 slides) and the hyperlinks to the video resource in the development activity. There is everything that you need here to teach the lesson.

In the past, I have used this lesson with children from across Key Stage 1 - the key learning is aligned with curriculum expectations for RE, and also the content prescribed by most diocese regions. All images are licensed for commercial use.