Category : RE

This week, Year 1 enjoyed a sunny RE lesson all about our wonderful world. We learned about the 7 natural wonders of the world and were amazed by their beauty.

Outside in the sunshine, we spotted the natural wonders around us—bright flowers, buzzing bees, tall trees, and blue skies. We talked about how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful world and how important it is to take care of it.

Then we created colourful posters with ways to help keep our world safe, like recycling, saving water, and protecting nature.

This week we have been sharing our thoughts on what we know about Easter …

”The Easter bunny.” Faith C.

”Celebrating Jesus.” Mylie.

”Easter eggs.” Sara.

“It’s a special time of year.” Thomas.

“Going out for meals with our family.” Avie.

”Going to church.” Harvey H.

”Jesus was nailed to a cross.” Matilda.

”Hot cross buns.” Warran.

We then designed our own poster showing all the things that Easter is. 

This week we have been looking at promises.

First, we learned that a promise is an agreement to do or not do something. 

The children spoke about some promises they had made. Some said they had made ‘pinkie promises’ to their friends, we also discussed school and home promises.

Then we listened to the tale of Abraham and Sarah which is a story from the bible. It tells of how God made Abraham a promise. He promised to give Sarah and Abraham a child and many descendants if they moved from where they were living to a new land. They did, and they had a son called Isaac.

God kept his promise to them, proving he was dependable and faithful.

Finally, the children made their own promise vouchers.

Myles promised to always love his family.

Isla-Grey promised to never hurt anyone. 

Keigha promised to never jump on her Dad’s bed. 

Forrest promised to always be kind. 

Luna said that if promises are broken, there would be consequences, like having time-out or no tablet time, and Matilda said that people would also feel sad if you broke your promise to them.

All the children thought carefully about their promises and they understood the importance of keeping them. They were excited to take them home to share with their families.

Year 1 have been thinking about “how values provide rules for living”… but first we needed to find out what values actually were.  

“Values are group of things that are important – such as honesty, good manners, kindness, determination.”

Many values come from holy books, like – the Bible which is a sacred text. 

We looked at 10 Commandments last week and this week we listened to the story of The Good Samaritan, which is a story from the Bible. 

The children were shocked that people just walked by the injured man, and that the good Samaritan (although he had different beliefs) was the only one to help.

We discussed hat we would do and how we would always help others when needed, it is important to remember that although we may have different beliefs and different gods, places of worship and bibles – we should be kind to everyone regardless of this.