Religious Education activity lesson plan

1. Craig Evans, Jasmin Peppiatt, Joshua Howe,
Fahim Variava and Samuel Mallard
Religious Education
Short activity (20 minutes)
Special Place
Pedagogical Principles:
· Seek to engage head, heart and
hand
· Acknowledge differences
Learning Objective: Be able to describe the
qualities and importance of having a special place
in your life.
Part of activity
(timing)
Description Assessment
Starter (5 minutes)
What are special places in the different
religions? - Pictures on board to support
Show different special places on the board
- What does this picture mean to you?
How would you feel if you were there?
- listen to children’s
answers. Can they
identify the different
religious places?
- Can children express
their own thoughts and
justify these?
Main (15 minutes)
Show one of our bags – each person as a
characteristic from a place – explain
everybody is different and we should
embrace this?
Bag – fill in special qualities and place into
bag and make marks to show this.
- Can children
understand the
importance of being
different?
- Can children identify
different characteristics
and explain why these
are important to them?
Plenary (5 minutes)
With a partner explain your bag and your
emotions to do with this
Partner feeds back to small group about
their partners place
- Can children explain
other peoples place and
understand why these
are important?
Homework
Children can create a video of them in their
favourite place or pretending to be at their
favourite place, talking about the importance
of this and identify the special people they
would meet their.
Can children identify
the significance
D-i fferentiation
- Use pictures to support learners
- Word bank to support vocabulary
- Draw instead of write place/thoughts
- Create sentences to describe the
different items in their bag.
Success Criteria
- I can identify special places for different religions
- I can describe my feelings and my peers feeling of
different places
- I can design, draw and describe my own special
place

2. Craig Evans, Jasmin Peppiatt, Joshua Howe,
Fahim Variava and Samuel Mallard
Follow-up Lesson
Follow the same lesson format, focusing on special people. Children can then create their own
special personal book that can be added to throughout the year and their time primary school.