Cherry Class 2024-2025

In Cherry Class, Religious Education is taught weekly, with spirituality at the heart of all we do. Our classroom provides a calm and reflective environment, including a dedicated reflection area filled with sensory resources to support children’s spiritual growth. We also take time each day for prayer and reflection, nurturing our connection with God and one another.

Term 6: What makes places special?

Our theme this term is 'Special Places'. Our big question is 'What makes places special?'. We are learning about different special places around the world and exploring what special places we have ourselves and what makes them special. We will later be exploring churches, synagogues, and mosques. 

Term 5: What can we learn from stories?

Our theme last term was 'Stories from around the world'. Our big question is 'What can we learn from stories?'. We were introduced to stories from a range of countries and religions, such as: India, Asia, Christianity and Islam. 

Term 4: Why do Christian's put a cross in the Easter garden?

This term, Cherry Class have learnt about the Christian key concept of Salvation. They have begun to learn the story of Jesus, beginning with Palm Sunday. We discussed the signficance of this special day and created our own palm leaves to practice reenacting the Palm Sunday story.

As a class we learnt about the Easter story, and how Jesus died on the cross and was buried in a cave. We looked at examples of Easter gardens and made our own. We learnt why hot cross buns are eaten on Easter, because they have a cross on the front and are shaped like the boulder. 

We have started to learn about forgiveness, and how Easter is an important time for Christians to think about forgiveness. We thought about what Easter represents. It represents new life, spring time, and saying sorry. 

Term 3: How do people celebrate?

This term we are learning about celebrations in different cultures and exploring worldviews. We began our first lesson by celebrating the new year! We talked about different traditions, made hats, flags, decorations and made New Year’s resolutions:

Arlo ‘I want to be better at phonics.'

Rufus: ‘I want to be better at swimming’

Jaxon ‘I don’t want to be scared of Butterflies’

Term 2: What is Christmas?

We began this project by thinking about giving. We thought about if had ever recieved a present and how it made us feel. We then talked about who we would give a special present to and why. We then practiced wrapping a special present for someone we love. 

Term 1: Special People

Big question - What makes people special.

We have thought about what makes people special. We have thought about who is special to us, and then explored Christianity, Judaism, and Islam and thought about special people in these religions. 

Moses

Bertie Owl asks children to think about ‘rules’ in nursery. What rules do we have here? Why do we have these rules? How do they help us?

We learnt that Jews believe a long time ago, a man called Moses was given 10 rules from God to help him show his people how to live their lives well. We found out they were called The Ten Commandments. We discussed: 'Is it good to have rules to follow?' What would happen with no rules?