Key Knowledge

• Know and use the words Christian, Jewish, Muslim to identify someone belonging to a religious community as well as others we have in our school or class.
• Name and identify the Church and synagogue
• Know that Jesus is an important leader in Christianity and can explain who he was.
• Name different ways Chrstians worship
• Identity that Christian stories can be found in the Bible.
• Identify that Jewish stories are found in the Torah.
• Know and retell religious stories and parables (the lost sheep, the lost son, Jonah and the whale,David and Goliath, Creation story)
• Say to which religions the stories shared are important
• Name things found inside and outside of a Jewish house
• Know the Shema is a Jewish prayer and where it is found
• Name some ways Jewish People celebrate Shabbat
• Demonstrate how the ‘Golden rule’ might be demonstrated.

Key Skills

• Suggest meanings for stories or actions.
• Share own thoughts, views, ideas or beliefs.
• Use names for religious artefacts, people or places.
• Identify feelings (love, sorrow, forgiveness)
• Begin to make links between the religious stories and the beliefs held, customs followed or what they might teach us.(what do Christians or Jews believe about God or what he might be like)
• Ask relevant questions.
• Begin to compare Jewish and Christian beliefs.

Key Vocabulary

Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Bible, Torah, parable, Shema, Shabbat,

altar, cross, crucifix, font, lectern,

ark, Ner Tamid, Torah scroll, tzizit (tassels), tefillin, tallit (prayer shawl) and kippah (skullcap), chanukiah, bimah;