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• 6.2: Literacy
• 6.3: Mathematics
• 6.4: Science
• 6.5: History
• 6.6: Geography
• 6.7: Religious Education
  • KS1 (age 5-7)
  • 6.7.2: Find Out About Beliefs and Belonging (age 5-7)
  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • 6.7.4: Celebrations and Special Times (age 7-11)
  • 6.7.5: Worship and Sacred places (age 7-11)
  • 6.7.6: Rites of Passage (age 7-11)
• 6.8: PSHE
• 6.9: Modern Foreign Language

Religious Education

Rites of Passage (age 7-11)

The very best BBC video clips, photos, audio, stories and interactive activities around the journey of life. Designed to support RE teaching and learning with the 7-11 age group, this resource can also be shared with 5-7 year olds.

 

 

It includes the following religions:

• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Judaism
• Sikhism

This resource shows how different faiths mark life's stages - from infant Baptism and the Muslim headshaving of a new baby, through coming of age and marriage to the end of life's journey and what different faiths believe about death.

Key features:

• Each page is tagged by curriculum objective, resource type and key word, and there is a clear, concise menu that takes you straight to the activity you need.
• To help you get the most from every page, every resource, whether it is a story, video, slideshow or quiz, comes with background notes and activities, onscreen at the touch of a button.
• Literacy activities are included with special Writing Focus pages which include key words and literacy support.

Rites of Passage is from the same author team who brought you the other best-selling other Whiteboard Active titles for Religious Education.

 

Contents

Unit 1: Introduction

• The Journey of Life
• Growing old
• What makes people happy?

 

Unit 2: Birth

• The start of life
• What's in a name?
• Islam:
  - The birth of a baby is a blessing
• Sikhism:
  - Choosing a name
• Christianity:
  - A Christian baptism
  - Welcome to the Christian family
  - A welcome for Jesus

Writing focus: A big responsibility

 

Unit 3: Growing up

• Changes and new beginnings
• Judaism:
  - Bar mitzvah: A sign of growing up
  - Bar mitzvah and Bat mitzvah ceremonies
  - Bar mitzvah quiz
• Christianity:
  - A Roman Catholic first communion
  - A Church of England confirmation service
  - Confirmation Quiz
  - Baptism in the River Jordan
  - Baptism in a Baptist Church
• Sikhism:
  - The story of the Khalsa
  - Taking amrit
  - The Five Ks
  - Five Ks quiz

Writing focus: A special time in my life

 

Unit 4: Marriage

• A World of weddings
• Choosing a partner
• Christianity:
  - A Christian wedding
  - Wedding vows
  - Jesus goes to a wedding
• Judaism:
  - The Jewish Wedding
  - The story of Ruth and Boaz
  
• Hinduism:
  - A Hindu wedding
  - The story of Rama and Sita
  

Writing focus: A letter about a wedding

 

Unit 5: The end of the journey

• The end of this life's journey
• Hinduism:
  - What do Hindus believe about the journey of life? - Rajiv Ghandi's funeral
• Buddhism:
  - Prince Sidartha's search for meaning
  - The story of Kisa and the mustard seeds
  
• Christianity:
  - What do Christians believe Easter tells them about life's end?
  - What to Christians believe happens when someone dies?
  - A place of rest
  - A graveyard with a difference
  - Going to a Christian funeral
• Marking the end and celebrating a life
  - Helping us to remember

Writing focus: My life journey

 

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