Mrs Gallaher

Y6 Religious Education Topic: Witnesses:

During this topic we will explore:

How our networks of friendships and relationships enable human beings to live together. When a child’s power to reach out, trust and make friends is diminished, they may suffer the effects for a lifetime. Both children and adults have to discover their ability to reach out and repair what has been damaged.

If human beings are to live together in relationships, there is always a need for reconciliation.

We will learn:

Christians believe that, in Jesus Christ, the world has been reconciled to God. Through and in Christ, every human being is offered the power to reach out in forgiveness and peace, to receive and to offer reconciliation.

St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesians, wrote:

“But now in Christ Jesus, you that used to be so far apart from us have been brought very close, by the blood of Christ. For he is the peace between us, and has made the two into one and broken down the barrier which used to keep them apart, actually destroying in his own person the hostility caused by the rules and decrees of the Law.” Ephesians 2:14-15

“It is called the Sacrament of Reconciliation, because it imparts to the sinner the love of God who reconciles: ‘Be reconciled to God’. He who lives by God’s merciful love is ready to respond to the Lord’s call: ‘Go; first be reconciled to your brother’…

Indeed the Sacrament of Reconciliation with God brings about a true ‘spiritual resurrection’, restoration of the dignity and blessings of the life of the children of God, of which the most precious is friendship with God.” CCC1424, 1468

We will pray:

**Prayer and Reflection**
*I have chosen the way of faithfulness;*
*I set your ordinances before me.*
*I cling to your decrees,*
*O Lord; let me not be put to shame.*
*I run the way of your commandments,*
*for you to enlarge my understanding.*
*Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes,*
*and I will observe it to the end.*
*Give me understanding that I may keep your law*
*and observe it with my whole heart.*
*Amen.*
*(Psalm 119: 30-34)*

Our Home Learning Task:

Write a seven day diary for the kind gestures you did every day for a week, when you were specifically demonstrating yourself as a witness for Jesus.

History

At St Adrian’s, we strive to make history a curriculum full of curiosity and enquiry. Our intent is to provide pupils with opportunities that develop their love and passion of history, whilst developing their historical skills and knowledge through a progressive curriulum.

We aim to use resources which enable children to develop a deep understanding of historical events that have taken place. Teaching will equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, develop perspective and judgement and teach them that evidence may lead to different conclusions.

They will be able to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change (comparing then and now), the diversity of societies and relationships between different cultural groups (and the impacts they have had) , as well as their own identity and the challenges of our time.

By the time the children leave St Adrian’s, the children will have developed a range of historical skills and the knowledge of the development and change which has occurred in Britain over time. They will have developed discussion and enquiry skills to be able to see if lessons from the past have been or should be learned for the benefit of the future.

Key documents

St-Adrian’s-long-term-plan-for-History

Progression in history skills at St Adrian’s

National curriculum for History

Topics at a glance

History in the EYFS

History in the EYFS is promoted through direct teaching and purposeful learning opportunities across different themes throughout the school year. We use planned themes and make the most of unplanned moments that present themselves to talk about artefacts and significant events to develop conceptual understanding of the passing of time. This includes birthdays, recent events and experiences as well as known points in history.

Toys KS1 topic resources - powerpoints, activity and display pack ...

Geography

At St Adrian’s we know that the children care about our world and want to protect it. Therefore, at the heart of the geography curriculum is ‘Protect our beautiful world’.

We believe that geography helps to provoke and provide answers to questions about the natural and human aspects of the world. Children are encouraged to develop a greater understanding and knowledge of the world, as well as their place in it.

The geography curriculum at St Adrian’s provides progression which enables children to develop knowledge and skills that are transferable to other curriculum areas and which can and are used to promote their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Geography is an investigative subject, which develops an understanding of concepts, knowledge and skills. We seek to inspire in children a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people which will remain with them for the rest of their lives; to promote the children’s interest and understanding of diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.

Key documents

St-Adrian’s-long-term-plan-for-Geography

Progression in geography at St Adrian ‘s

National curriculum for Geography

Topics at a glance

Geography in the Early Years

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Factors affecting the location of Settlements

Weather Activities and Resources KS1 | Teaching about Weather and ...

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Year 1	The Gunpowder Plot	Changes within living memory – Toys	Intrepid Explorers

Year 2	Let’s Remember	People who care	The Great Fire of London

Year 3	Prehistoric Britain 1	Prehistoric Britain 2	Ancient Egypt

Year 4	Ancient Greece	Roman Britain	Anglo Saxons and Scots

Year 5	Saxons and Vikings	A Local Investigative study of St Albans	The Mayans

Year 6	Tudors – Terrible or revolutionary?	Kingdom of Benin	Significant turning point in British History – WWII

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Year 1	My Area – plans, maps, keys and arial photos	Weather patterns	The UK – countries, capitals and seas

Year 2	It’s a Wonderful World Part 1 (Continents and oceans)	It’s a Wonderful World Part 2 (Continents and oceans)	Let’s visit Brazil and compare with St Albans

Year 3	UK towns, cities and features	Water and rivers	Europe and the Americas

Year 4	Compare a region in the UK with a region in Europe and South America	Features of the Earth	A local field study

Year 5	Cutting up the globe	Energy and sustainability	Biomes

Year 6	Population	Migration	Globalisation