Unit Sequence

1. What does it mean to belong to a community? 

2. How do Christians and Muslims show that they belong? 

3. How do Christians, Muslims and Jewish people show that they belong? 

4. What do worldviews say about how valuable people are? 

5. How do Muslims and Christians welcome a new baby? How do people show that they belong to each other? 

Learning Outcomes

• Recognise that loving others is important in lots of communities.

• Say simply what Jesus and one other religious leader taught about loving other people. 

• Give an account of what happens at a traditional Christian and Jewish or Muslim welcome ceremony and suggest what the actions and symbols mean. 

• Identify at least two ways people show they love each other and belong to each other when they get married (Christian and/or Jewish and non-religious). 

• Give examples of ways in which people express their identity and belonging within faith communities and other communities, responding sensitively to diīerences. 

• Talk about what they think is good about being in a community, for people in faith communities and for themselves, giving a good reason for their ideas. 

1.4 What can we learn from sacred books? 

1. Talk about some of the stories that are used in religion and why people still read them (A2).

2. Recognise some ways in which Christians, Muslims and Jewish people treat their sacred books (B3). 

3. Recognise that sacred texts contain stories which are special to many people and should be treated with respect (B3). 

4. Re-tell stories from the Christian Bible and stories from another faith; suggest the meaning of these stories (A2). 

5. Ask and suggest answers to questions arising from stories Jesus told and from another religion (C1). 

6. Talk about issues of good and bad, right and wrong arising from the stories (C3). 

7. Suggest their own ideas about stories from sacred texts and give reasons for their significance (C1). 

8. Make links between the messages within sacred texts and the way people live (A2). 

1.7 What does it mean to belong to a faith community? 

1. Talk about what is special and of value about belonging to a group that is important to them (B2). 

2. Show an awareness that some people belong to different religions (B1). 

3. Recognise and name some symbols of belonging from their own experience, for Christians and at least one other religion, suggesting what these might mean and why they matter to believers (A3). 

4. Give an account of what happens at a traditional Christian infant baptism /dedication and suggest what the actions and symbols mean (A1). 

5. Identify two ways people show they belong to each other when they get married (A1). 

6. Respond to examples of co-operation between different people (C2) 

7. Give examples of ways in which believers express their identity and belonging within faith communities, responding sensitively to differences (B2). 

8. Identify some similarities and differences between the ceremonies studied (B3).