RE

Class 3 and 4 visit the Jewish Museum in Manchester

 in Class Four / Class Three / RE by

Just before the half term break, Class 3 and Class 4 visited the Jewish Synagogue and Museum in Cheetham Hill, Manchester.

During the morning we toured the inside of the Synagogue, learning all about the symbols, artefacts and furniture surrounding us.  We heard about how Jewish settlers had travelled from different parts of Europe to this area of Manchester during the industrial revolution to trade and set up their lucrative businesses.  This Jewish community soon became a thriving, busy commercial hub where business boomed for many decades.

We also got the opportunity to handle a range of different artefacts, including: prayer shawls, a sedar plate, prayer scrolls and Jewish hats, known as Kippah. The museum upstairs had even more displays and objects to explore and sketch.

We have learnt so much more about the Jewish faith and heritage, both during this experience and in our focus on Judaism as part of Multi-faith week.

Hot seating Zacchaeus

 in Class Three / RE by

In R.E. this week we have been learning about change and how this is not always easy to see. We read the story of Zacchaeus in The Bible and identified changes in his behaviour and actions as a result of meeting Jesus. We then thought of questions to ask Zacchaeus and asked these during our hot seating activity.

Class Three’s Christingles!

 in Class Three / RE by

We had a fantastic afternoon learning all about the different parts of a Christingle and what these represent including the lit candle representing Jesus as the ‘Light of the World’. We used our team work skills to help each other and worked brilliantly. Great job Class Three and thank you to the adults for providing the oranges and candles.

Jesus is the Light of the World.

 in Class Three / RE by

Class Three enjoyed a fantastic workshop with Diana from NISCU. We identified sources of light and compared these to Jesus such as car headlights lighting the path like Christians believe Jesus guides the way. For each source of light, we examined an extract from The Bible explaining why Jesus is called the ‘Light of the World’. We then each made a lantern with some of the quates on. This was a brilliant start to our topic.

Whole school multi-faith art afternoon

 in Art / RE / Whole School by

On Tuesday, all pupils from nursery to Y6 enjoyed an immersive afternoon learning about art from the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic and Jewish faiths.

Class Three reflections and prayers

 in Class Three / RE by

Today, Class 3 visited church. We had some time for silent reflection and discussed how this made us feel. We also thought about why some Christians decide to visit church to pray and how this differs from praying in other locations. We then found a quiet space outdoors an again took the time to reflect on our lives. We all named some of the things we are thankful for in our lives. When we returned to school we made prayer boards. We thought about all the things we are thankful for and what we would like to say sorry for and what we would like to ask for. We followed this up by writing individual prayers using prayer books from the refection area to help.

Courageous advocacy in Class Three.

 in Class Three / English / RE by

Class Three were very passionate about trying to make a difference to deforestation of the rainforests. We decided to write persuasive letters to the Prime Minister to try to influence political decisions. We were very excited to receive a reply from Downing Street detailing how there are trying to tackle to issue and thanking us for our interest in political issues.

 

What is prayer?

 in Class Three / RE by

This week we took part in a fantastic workshop with Diana from NISCU. We learnt all about how, why, how and where Christians prayer. Diana explained that prayer is like having a friendship with God, that you can pray anywhere and at anytime. She explained why Christians pray using PASTA!

P is for Praise,

A is for Ask

S is for Sorry

T is for Thank you

A is for Amen.

Thank you so much Diana.

Why is the bible such a special book?

 in Class Two / RE by

Class 2 have started their RE learning off with looking at bibles and reading our favourite stories out of the bible! We found this very interesting and loved reading to a friend.

 

Peter’s betrayal and forgiveness

 in Class Three / RE by

Today, we continued our work on the Easter story. We examined the role of Peter. We did some role play of the key events such as Jesus’ arrest and Peter denying he knew Jesus three times. We looked at forgiveness and what this means to us and also examined the Bible to see what this says about forgiveness.