Harvest
This religious education scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and record how the autumn harvest is celebrated and marked in different communities around the world. The class can write thank you prayers and produce decorations to use when participating in a harvest festival in the school.
Explore and record how the autumn harvest is celebrated and marked in different communities around the world
Lesson One : Farm Crops
Practise identifying, sorting and comparing some of the different crops and foods that are grown and harvested on a farm
Lesson Two : Harvest Tapestry
Explore how to identify and record some of the different farming actions and jobs that are connected to the harvest that takes place in the autumn
Lesson Three : Harvest Collage
Investigate how to select and use a range of natural materials to create examples of different foods that can be harvested during the autumn
Lesson Four : Harvest Hymn
Explore and describe some of the different ways of celebrating the autumn harvest in Christianity by holding special festivals in churches
Lesson Five : Harvest Prayer
Explain and record how to write a prayer to thank God for providing the harvest in the autumn by supporting farmers to help them grow crops
Lesson Six : Harvest Decorations
Explore and describe some of the different ways that Christians celebrate the autumn harvest by holding a church festival
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Sea Collage
Combine and shape a selection of different natural and art materials to produce artwork reflecting ideas and themes about the sea
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Harvest
Explore and record how the autumn harvest is celebrated and marked in different communities around the world
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Weather Database
Explore and record how to use computer databases to store, organise and interrogate data and information about what is happening in the weather
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Seaside Sculpture
Select and use a range of different natural materials found on a beach to produce some model sculptures on the theme of the seaside