Teaching Ideas for Religious Education
Classroom teaching ideas and lesson planning advice to support busy primary school teachers in Key Stages One and Two and the Foundation Stage. Discover a fantastic range of primary resources to excite and inspire pupils on different topics and themes for religious education.
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Topic Launches
Select and utilise effective ways of launching a new curriculum topic covering a range of subjects in the classroom
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Topic Tree
Demonstrate prior understanding of a new classroom topic and identify questions for further research
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Nativity Play
Organise and rehearse a performance of the nativity story from the Bible for a special Christmas assembly
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Class Assembly
Hold an assembly in the classroom on different themes, topics and stories to support spiritual and emotional development
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Prayers for Peace
Compose individual and group prayers to reflect on different ways of resolving conflicts relating to either personal or global issues
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World Worries
Develop and implement a number of techniques to understand and react to unsettling and troubling events in the world
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Community Links
Explore how to establish and build strong links in the local community to support learning across the curriculum
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Country Support
Understand the events of a natural disaster and how the school community can provide support to families affected
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Love and Understanding
Develop and demonstrate love and understanding for the world community at a local, national and global level
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Valentine Gifts
Investigate and practise different techniques to shape and combine materials when producing models to make gifts to give to someone special for Valentine’s Day
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Valentine Boxes
Practise using nets of cube and cuboid shapes and a range of materials to make and decorate boxes to hold Valentine’s Day gifts for someone special
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Valentine Shapes
Investigate and model how to shape, colour and combine a range of different materials to produce shapes representing themes related to Valentine’s Day
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Flower Vase
Investigate and practise how to combine different materials when making models of flowers to present to someone special on Valentine’s Day