Today we explored an adult Bible and children’s Bible

Today we explored an adult Bible and children’s Bible. The Bible is the special Christian Holy Book #smithdownre

Eating apple dipped in honey…

On Friday we celebrated Rosh Hashanah by eating apple dipped in honey #smithdownre

Jewish creation story with each other this week

Year 2 have worked so hard to share the Jewish creation story with each other this week #smithdownre

First day back for me today and a lovely day spent with year 2

First day back for me today and a lovely day spent with @SmithdownPrimY2 counting and discussing precious items important to us @misshath2 #smithdownre

3TS explored the Puja in R.E.

3TS explored the Puja in R.E. then moved onto some tricky rolling in gymnastics. Well done! @SmithdownPrimY3 #smithdownpe #smithdownre

Year 3 loved exploring Hinduism and the different elements in the religion.

We discussed actions of people in The Good Samaritan story.

We really had interesting ideas about the responses of each of the characters in the story of The Good Samaritan and related situations to everyday life.

What a day! Year 4 really enjoyed learning about the Hindu culture.

Diwali Lanterns

As part of our Diwali celebrations, Year 6 made lanterns displaying the symbols of, not only Hinduism, but other religions of the world too.

Year 4 celebrations for Diwali. We love our Diwali lanterns!

Happy Diwali

A happy Diwali from 3TS! We made beautiful lanterns to represent the festival of light.

Diwali candles in 2GH

We have enjoyed creating our own Diwali candles today

Celebrating Diwali

We have been learning all about the festival of Diwali this week. We made Diwa decorations and cards for Diwali. We also found how Diwali is celebrated and how Diwali means Festival of Light. ?

Starting our new RE topic

We started our new Christianity topic by looking at Christian symbols and artefacts. Christians believe God has many titles so we thought about the different labels we have.

Year 3 and 4 had an amazing time watching a Christmas performance! We all had a good laugh and got involved.

Mosques Around The World

As part of our RE unit, we are finding out about mosques around the world and presenting our findings in Google Slides.

Reception RE

Reception had a wonderful morning listening to the story of Noah and the Ark

RE: Grace, Ummah and Ahimsa

As part of our unit (Grace, Ummah and Ahimsa), we learnt a little about Ghandi, and how he protested peacefully against wrongs and injustices. We then used some key words to present in his name.

RE: Geometric Patterns

After learning about Mosques, we followed step by step instructions to create our own geometric Islamic patterns. Now they are designed, we are going to colour. How symmetrical can we make them? ?

Throwing and Catching

We have been practicing our throwing and catching skills in a group. We worked together to see how quickly we can move the beanbag around the circle.

We have been busy sharing how we celebrated Eid. ?

Eid Mubarak!

Happy Eid to all our families celebrating! We had a lovely day and week celebrating with all our children and adults.

Eid Mubarak!

We loved celebrating Eid last week.

We shared our special things with each other

As part of our new topic we shared special things from home. We explained why they are special and what they mean to us.

RE: Villains and Rules

Within our RE unit of ‘What Matters Most To Christians and Humanists’ we talked about villains – What villains do we know? What makes a villain a villain? We then looked at positive and negative behaviour and consequences in school, at home and in society. We followed this up by designing our own ‘Good Guy Codes for Living’ which we are still working on.

‘Good Guy Code For Living’

We have completed our ‘Good Guy Codes for Living / How to be a Good Guy’ in RE. We made suggestions on actions and behaviour we can display to make the world a better place.

Great work in RE year 2

Your art work was impressive in RE this week! Well done Year 2

Hinduism … What is Moksha?

we learned about reincarniation and how Muslims believe if you have good Moksha you will be reborn, if you don’t you will come back as an animal.

Year 4 Temple trip

Year 4 had a very exciting morning visiting a local temple. We asked lots of questions related to our Hinduism unit.

Diwali Celebrations

Year 6 had some special visitors today who helped us to learn about the Hindu festival of Diwali. We looked at traditional food, special dress and other forms of celebration which take place. Most of all, we loved the dressing up and the dancing!

Diwali lanterns

Today we are designing our Diwali lanterns for next week. We have learnt the story of Rama and Sita and thought about why Diwali is celebrated in Hindu religion. We are trying to focus on using Rangoli patterns.

Diwali Celebrations

Today,  year 3 had a workshop based around Diwali. The children enjoyed learning about this celebration. They learned how it called ‘the festival of lights’ and created their own pieces of art that candle lights are placed in. We got to dress up and took part in a traditional Diwali dance.

Diwali 🌟

We have really enjoyed learning about the celebration of Diwali this week. We are very excited to see our lanterns lit for our Diwali lunch tomorrow

Diwali lanterns

We are having so much fun making our Diwali lanterns with rangoli patterns.

Diwali Celebrations

Year 4 had such a great morning at our Diwali workshop. We wore some traditional Hindu clothing, learned some traditional dance, and even got to paint and create our own diya lanterns. 

Diwali workshop!

Thank you to our wonderful visitors for speaking to us about Diwali. We loved our workshop.

Diwali lanterns

We have been busy painting our Diwali lanterns this week.

In Year 1 we loved having Ms Ronak give us a talk all about Diwali!

To celebrate Diwali, we made some Rangoli patterns!

We have been learning about Diwali and are manipulating salt dough into our own diya lamps. 🪔

Timetables in RE

In RE we looked at the difference between a Christian’s daily timetable and our daily timetables. We discovered some similarities and some differences.

RE: The importance of the mosque in Islam.

We’re now in the Islam section of our RE unit and we are learning all about the sense of community and how the mosque plays an important part in bringing the community together. We took the opportunity to utilise our artistic skills too.

Mosque sketching

Some completed mosque sketches

We think some of these mosque pictures are incredible！We drew them as part of our RE unit which includes learning about ‘Ummah’ as part of the Islam religion.

A visit from B-Tales!

B-tales shared the story of Jonah and the Christmas twist.

The concept of ‘Ahimsa’

In R.E. today, we learnt about the Hindu belief in AHIMSA – non-harm. We learnt about Ghandi and discussed what some of his quotes meant.

Year 2 Nativity

Our Nativity Slideshow.

Thank you all for coming to watch. We loved performing for you.