1. REspond … show what you know and can do!
By working through the following activities you will help your teachers to plan what you might explore in your RE lessons this year.

2. Task 1: these activities will help you show what you know about Christianity
Draw something which you think represents Christianity
Label your drawing and if possible say where you might see what you have drawn
Is your drawing something which may be used by a Christian ? If so describe how it may be used, if not say what it is for.
Explain how what you have drawn may be important to Christians

3. Task 2: making links - read the following words then complete the activities
baptism
prophet
pope
pilgrim
Walsingham
priest
freedom
Jesus
cross
confirmation
Messiah
festival
vicar
Lourdes
font
reconciliation
John the Baptist
promise
Easter
Jerusalem

4. Task 2 activities
Choose any 3 words which you think are connected.
Write them down here:
_______________ _______________ ______________
Now choose another 3 words which you think are connected:
B. ________________ _______________ ______________
Now choose a third set of words which are connected:
C. ________________ _______________ ______________
Choose either set A, B or C;
describe how words you have chosen are connected.
Select your answers to either A, B or C;
explain how they might impact on the life of a Christian.

5. Task 3: what do you know about different religions and belief systems?c f d e

6. Task 3 activities
Name a religion or belief system, other than Christianity, that you have learned about when you were in Year 5 or Year 6.
____________________
Choose a belief system you have learned about and write (a paragraph) about how the members celebrate a rite of passage or a festival and why.
Which of the faiths or world views can you identify?
B_________________
J_________________
S_________________
I__________________
H_________________

7. Task 4 – Questions: which of the following questions might have more than one answer?
Why do we have weather?
Who is God?
If we had no eyebrows would we look silly?
600 x 20 =
Can anyone stay alive forever?
How many cells are in a human body?
Why do we need air?
Why do we have different religions?
How many planets are there?
Why do we live if we are going to die anyway?

8. Task 4 continued…
Write down the numbers of the Qs with more than one answer:
Explain your own ideas and beliefs in response to an ultimate (‘big’) question

9. Task 5
Religions sometimes teach their followers about freedom, truth, justice, love and forgiveness. Which religions have taught you about these things? What have you learned?