St Bridget’s CE Primary School _ Religious Education

St Bridget's CE Primary School is a Voluntary Controlled school and we follow the Cumbrian Local Agreed Syllabus 

Our curriculum content is a balance of the three essential disciplines of quality RE, Theology, Philosophy and Human Social Science.

Our Progression of Skills using Questful RE

 In our RE Clever Club visited our classroom and told us about his special places . ( following on from us talking about and drawing our own special places last week ). He brought his photo album and showed us Allonby beach and St Bridget’s church where he likes to go with his family . He even brought a toy church for us to play with. He then showed us different churches around the world which Christians go to, to say their prayers and think about God and Jesus.  After this we looked at different people who said prayers to different Gods who they believed in and used Hats of Faith Book to talk about Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Jewish people  . We then wondered where they went to say their prayers ? Did they go to St Bridget’s church too? Clever Club helped us out by showing us in his Photo Album where he had been on holiday and visited different places people go to pray like Mosques , Synagogue etc we had fun spotting Clever Cub in the picture too. Finally we matched the people from Hats of Faith Book to the different special places.

Washing our friends feet and enjoying a version of The Last Supper.In class 1 we have been looking at the Easter story .  After the initial sharing of The Easter story Clever Cub visited us to tell us about the story in more detail. We then had great fun using props and LEGO people as Jesus and his disciples to re-enact the events.  Then we watched a video clip of the last supper . We learnt about how in the bible times people often had dirty feet from walking on dusty roads in their sandals. People would wash their feet before going into people’s houses . Jesus washed his disciples feet as an example of kindness and love and asked them to follow in his footsteps . We then had a giggle as Mrs Hemingway washed Grayson’s feet and the children took it in turns to wash each other’s feet.  We then sat at our tables in a line and pretended to be Jesus and his disciples eating the bread and wine ( juice) to remember Jesus’ body. The children chose Grayson as Jesus as he was sitting in the middle .

LKS2- Trip to Carlisle Cathedral 

During our theme week titled 'Our Wider World' Imran Kotwal visited us and taught us about the 5 Pillars of Islam.  Here the children can be seen learning all about the Pillar 'Salat' - prayer.