This unit of work is based on the planning of ‘Understanding Christianity’.It is the unit called: Salvation - Why do Christians call the day Jesus died as Good Friday? This unit of work is all about Easter. The lessons include a range of activities such as: Listening to stories Writing a diary entry as Mary Magdalene Creating a poster Easter hunt Art work

Here are Powerpoint slides of four lessons based on the planning from Understanding Christianity. This is aimed at Years 3 and 4. In this unit there is a variety of activities such as creative art activities as well as a writing task. This is ready to download and teach. The learning objectives for each lesson are as follows: Lesson 1: Engage in the story of Creation and Fall Children listen to the story of Creation and go on a mindful walk around the school grounds to look at any nature they can see and appreciate that Christians believe this was created by God. They return and explore the concept of temptation first-hand and then explore the panel images that represent creation and fall from the Understanding Christianity unit. Lesson 2: Enquire into Christian belief that humans cannot get close to God without his help Here children will explore the feelings of Adam, Eve and God when Eve betrayed them. The outcome of this lesson is a diary entry of Eve exploring how she feels. Children will understand the importance of saying sorry and taking responsibility for their actions. Lesson 3: Explore that the bible shows God wants to help people by giving guidelines Children will explore the ten commandments and watch videos of two different types of churches that serve God in different ways. Their task is to create a piece of art based on one of or all of the ten commandments. Examples are included. Lesson 4: Evaluate and express our learning about creation and fall This lesson will consist of children ordering the story of creation as a reminder, completing a quiz either individually or in teams about the creation story. There is then a selection of activities to choose from in two sections: writing or drawing. Included: The Powerpoint with all of the links required inside The quiz for lesson 4 #understandingchristianity #RE #christian #creation #thefall #adamandeve #unit #religion #religiouseducation #God #Bible

This unit of work is inspired by and based off of the planning from the Emmanuel Project which is attached in these downloads. There are 5 lessons in this unit of work. There is a range of activites such as: Art, creating posters, debates and writing. This unit of work has been taught for two years and has been successful each time.

Inspired by the Emmanuel Project planning. High quality unit of planning planning that comes with a written plan, Powerpoint and attached resources. This unit of work allows for three pieces of writing as well as practical learning and deep discussion. Lesson 1: Engage with the idea of karma Mostly a practical lesson involving the game Snakes and Ladders and how this links to Hinduism. Lesson 2: Enquire into why karma is important. More snakes and ladders games in an organised why to represent the key concept of Moksha and Samsara(reincarnation). Key videos to watch to aid understanding. Opportunity for asking deep questions about the concept. Lesson 3: Explore Hindu ideas of Karma and Samsara through The Jackal and the Drum. Exploring a hindu story. 2 tasks available: diary entry as the jackal, or a storyboard of the story. Differentiated tasks attached. Lesson 4: Explore ways Hindus encourage good karma through Sewa day. What is Sewa day? Why is this important? Ways in which children could do good deeds. Introduce Mahatma Ghandi and why he is an important Hindu. Complete factfile about Ghandi. Lesson 5: Evaluate the Hindu belief in karma through Hindu daily life. A chance for children to choose how they will represent their learning from this unit.

This is a unit of work I have planned, resourced and used from the Understanding Christianity scheme of work. This is ‘Gospel’ and it is aimed at Years 3 and 4. This is a Powerpoint download of the following lessons: Lesson 1: Engage with the idea of Gospel through parables A focus on understanding what a parable is and this looks at The Thankful Leper and The Good Samaritan. This has a fill in the gaps task about The Good Samaritan. Lesson 2: Enquire into the idea of Gospel This focuses on understanding why Jesus told the story of The Good Samaritan and what it means to Christians to be a good samaritan. This has a diary entry writing task about The Good Samaritan. Lesson 3: Explore ways in which Christians practice Gospel This focuses on what Christians might do to be a good samaritan and live life how God and Jesus wanted. This looks directly into the charity Christian Aid and what some Christians dedicate their life to. This contains a drawing task. Lesson 4: Evaluate how Christians can share God’s message This lesson focuses on rich discussion and writing to answer questions about what kind of world God wants and what kind of world the children want and why. This then goes into an art focus of creating a piece of artwork to encourage others to be kind. The last slide of this Powerpoint contains ways in which children can express their learning about kindness by suggesting activities they can do to show kindness.

Here are Powerpoint slides of five lessons based on the planning from Understanding Christianity. This is aimed at Year 2. In this unit there is a variety of activities such as creative art activities, Lego activities as well as writing tasks. This is ready to download and teach. The learning objectives for each lesson are as follows: Lesson 1: Engage in the idea that God created the universe. This starts off with the children completing a key word writing activity where they write 5 of the unit’s key words 3 times. The teacher and children then discuss what they know about Creation so far and start writing down some questions they would like to find out. The teacher then goes through the Powerpoint which tells the story of Creation. The activity is to complete a storyboard of the Creation story. This lesson may take 2 sessions of learning. Lesson 2: Explore the big frieze Creation panel Here children will explore the order of the Bible and see that Creation comes first. They will explore the Big Frieze that comes with Understanding Christianity which are large images representing each part of the Bible. Children will explore the Creation image looking at it carefully and seeing what they spot. After this, children will create their own panel image to represent Creation. Place all of the images together to take a picture for display and their books. Lesson 3: Explore that God has a unique relationship with human beings. Building on learning from the last session, children will create their own Lego creations and understand how it feels to have some of it broken. They will learn how God may feel when people don’t look after the Earth. Children will discuss key questions at the end of the lesson. Lesson 4: Understand how Christians look after God’s creation. The class will come up with a brain shower of all the ideas they can think of to look after the Earth. There is a video to watch here to support this lesson. Children will complete a worksheet that asks questions about what Christians believe and how important it is to look after the world. This will include ways children can help look after the Earth. Lesson 5: Evaluation and express my learning on Creation Recap of unit’s learning. Adding what they have learnt as a class to the class Wisdom wall. Key question worksheet to answer the big question of this unit. Included: The Powerpoint with all of the links required inside Worksheet for each lesson Wonder Wall and Wisdom Wall templates for display Clear Now/Next/Last slides included in the Powerpoints Written plan #understandingchristianity #RE #christian #creation #adamandeve #unit #religion #religiouseducation #God #Bible #KS1 #Year2

Here are Powerpoint slides of four lessons based on the planning from Understanding Christianity. This is aimed at Years 1 and 2. In this unit there is a variety of activities such as creative art activities as well as a writing task. This is ready to download and teach. The learning objectives for each lesson are as follows: Pre-unit task objective: Ask questions about Incarnation (engage) Lesson 1:engage in the idea that Christians believe that Jesus is God and that he was born as a baby in Bethlehem. In this session children will learn that Jesus is God in a different form. They will learn the Nativity story and how special it was that Jesus was coming. They will order the nativity story. They will then look at art work of the stable scene and create their own. (enquire) Lesson 2: enquire about how the Bible showed Jesus was extraordinary and that he came to bring good news. Children will explore the Incarnation panel of the Big Frieze and see where the nativity story falls in the bigger picture of the Bible. Children will then reflect on how Mary would have felt when Angel Gabriel appeared to her to tell her the news. Children will write their own diary entry as Mary. (explore) Lesson 3: explore how Christians celebrate Jesus’s birth and that Advent is a time for Christians to get ready for Jesus’s birth. Children will do a mindmap of Christmas and all of the traditions they know to do with Christmas. They will then watch a video all about Christmas traditions for Christians and learn what Advent is. Using this knowledge they will write an acrostic poem for ‘Advent’. Provided are Christian/Christmas related words of each letter in ‘advent’. After this children have the chance to create a Christmas card (or winter card for those who do not want to participate) for someone in a care home in the hope that it brings joy, something Christians like to spread at Christmas. Lesson 4: evaluate and express our learning on Incarnation. Children will reflect on what they have learnt and answer 3 key questions about this topic. Included: The Powerpoint for the whole unit with all of the links required inside. Sheets to be stuck into books for each session - each with a learning objective and explanation about what was taught in each session. A cover page for the unit of work to go into books. #understandingchristianity #RE #christian #creation #incarnation #christmas #nativity #jesus #unit #religion #religiouseducation #God #Bible