Year 1

Year 1 [Unit 1/c] 7 hours

This unit is about what it means to belong to a religious community.

To what groups do the children belong?
How would a religious group welcome someone new?
What does it mean to belong to a Christian group?

After discussions about our families and the groups we belong to, divide the board or page into four. Ask the children who is charge of their home - be prepared for some interesting answers!- their school and the country. The last quarter could contain the following faith statement “Christian people believe that God is in charge of everything”. You may wish to broaden this statement to include other faiths. You could then ask pupils to think of different rules for home, school and country.

Discuss why rules are so important and how they differ from place to place. The Highway Code is a good starting point. You may like to point out that Christian people (and those of other faiths) believe that God’s rules are very important.

Watch BBC’s ‘Pathways to Belief - Church’ video (15 minutes) or ‘Sarah and Paul’ church video.

Enact an infant baptism using a doll and a bowl of water, asking children to be parents and Godparents.

The site www.request.org.uk has excellent material on infant baptism, including a video clip of a vicar baptising a baby.

Invite a Christian parent into a lesson to explain why belonging to a church is important to their family. We can recommend speakers who are used to working with children - e-mail us for more information.

There is more information about churches in the Year 2 unit.

Year 1 [Unit 1/d] 3 hours

This unit is about: Giving up something for love

What things are important to you?
What was important to Jesus?
What did Jesus give up for love?

We have a copy of ‘Dogger’ in big book format for short term loan.

Read ‘The Big Wave’ from Bob Hartman’s ‘The Storyteller Bedtime Book’ or ‘Cheer up Chicken’. Both can be used to introduce the subject of self sacrifice. Also look at the story of Albrecht Durer.

Stories from the life of Jesus (Zaccheus, Blind Bartimaeus, calming the storm and events at Easter) are all told well in ‘The Storyteller Bible’.

‘The Marvellous Picnic’ is particularly appropriate for this scheme of work.

Look at ‘A Very Special Sunday’ Big Book.

Look at the symbolism of palm crosses and hot cross buns.
Visit the Request website for instructions on how to make a palm cross.

Activities

Draw the people or person who was important to Jesus from the stories listed above. Write a sentence to explain what Jesus did to show these people were important; eg Jesus gave the hungry people food to eat.

Make a large cross collage as a class, filling the cross shape with different faces from around the world. This is a SCAMPER activity; see the link for more ideas.


	Click the symbol to download a worksheet. Inside the heart shape ask the children to draw something or someone that is important to them.


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