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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Class Review
Evaluate progress and achievement over the past school year and select targets for improvement in the autumn term
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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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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Family Holiday Trips
Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world
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Garden Numbers
Identify and model some of the different calculation techniques that can be used when adding pairs of single digit numbers
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Summer Stories
Practise composing and presenting narrative stories with familiar settings to illustrate the events and experiences that could happen during the summer