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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Easter Garden
Build a garden area in the school grounds to display some artwork of eggs, crosses and flowers to celebrate Easter
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Easter Gospels
Use art and design and literacy skills to understand and illustrate the sequence of events surrounding the Easter story
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Lent Temptations
Use the period between Shrove Tuesday and Easter to introduce the class to a range of themes illustrating what happened to Jesus when he was tempted by devil in the desert
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Pancake Party
Investigate the meaning behind Shrove Tuesday and celebrate pancakes in different curriculum subjects and lessons
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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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Subtraction Sequences
Identify and illustrate the sequences of steps that can be used when completing standard written methods using decomposition to subtract pairs of numbers with four or more digits
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Homophone Meanings
Identify, match and record the different meanings and definitions of pairs of words that can be classed as homophones
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Plurals Sentences Suffix s
Practise converting singular nouns into plurals by adding the suffix s to build words to use in sentences on different topics and themes
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Family Times
Identify, calculate and record the start and finish times and durations of different family events and experiences using analogue and digital clocks