Religious Education and Assemblies

Graeme Kent

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Paper-based / ePack

Feb 96
ISBN: Paper-based 978 1 85749 037 4; ePack 978 1 84070 684 0

Develop your school's RE programme

This major publication offers all primary schools a platform from which to develop an entire RE programme. It can be used to plan, implement and develop the school's RE policy while taking into account the agreed syllabuses as prepared by the local Standing Advisory Councils on Religious Education. The publication can also be used to prepare for Ofsted inspections.

Religious Education and Assemblies is based on weekly assemblies which can act as springboards for RE activities for Years 1 to 6. The theme of each assembly can be developed through a different approach for each year, and is supported by six sets of activity outlines. Elements can be used individually, in groups or as a coherent whole.

Autumn term

New Things; Faith; Friends; Helping; Love; Service; Determination; Christmas

Spring term

Religion; Conscience; New life; Courage; Wisdom; Journeys; Consideration; Easter

Summer term

Belief; Discoveries; Gifts; Communities; Homes; Happiness; Nature; End of term

The approaches to assembly themes are:

Year One, My feelings
Year Two, My world
Year Three, Myths and legends
Year Four, Faiths around the world
Year Five, Christianity in Great Britain
Year Six, Religion today.

The revised edition also contains outline assembly plans for each day of each school week; considers the skills of interpretation, reflection, empathy, evaluation, analysis, synthesis, and application; and looks at the attitudes of commitment, fairness, respect, self-understanding and enquiry. The programme is a Christian-based one but also includes examinations of other major religions, as proposed in the Model Syllabuses, for example, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam at Key Stage 1 and Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism at Key Stage 2.

Introduction

About the Author

Reading List

Curriculum Requirements

Composition of Daily Assemblies

Theme, Approach and Strand Tables

Term One
Term Two
Term Three

Part One: Assembly Notes

Part Two: Year Strands

Year 1: My Feelings
Year 2: My World
Year 3: Myths and Legends
Year 4: World Faiths
Year 5: Christians in Britain
Year 6: Religion Today

Part Three: Five-year Assembly Plan

About the author

Graeme Kent, M Phil, FCP, A Inst Ed, has taught in six primary schools and, for 18 years, was the headteacher of St Thomas’ C of E Primary School in Boston, Lincolnshire, which was rated by the Independent on Sunday as ‘one of Britain’s best schools’. He is the author of many educational books and has written and produced hundreds of educational broadcasting programmes, besides being a novelist and prize-winning playwright.

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