Special superheroes!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Superheroes Real Superheroes

Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Express self effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs.
  • Use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future.
  • Develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.
  • Talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
  • Know that other children don’t always enjoy the same things, and are sensitive to this.
  • Know about similarities and differences between self and others, and among families, communities and traditions.

Lesson Planning

Who helps us outside school? Find out about local faith leaders – the Vicar, Imam, Rabbi, Guru, Priest.

Children will:

  • Identify and group together correctly artefacts and resources for different local faiths.
  • Share their own experiences (if any) of visiting/belonging to a faith group.
  • Listen attentively to visiting local faith leaders.

Provided Resources

  • The words to This is the way we go to church

You Will Need

  • Selection of RE resources, to include artefacts representing faiths in the local area
  • Cloths to cover
  • Questions written as captions:

‘What is the person who works in the building called?’
‘Name the Holy Book’
‘What do you call the people who worship in that building?’
‘What day do people go there?’