Planning RE using the Mind Friendly Framework for Learning

ENCOUNTER

Connect to previous learning: What do I already know? What do I want to know?

Thank you: when and why do you say thank you? Has there ever been a time when you have forgotten to say thank you? Talk in pairs write ideas on “Post it” notes and add to white board.

The Big Picture: What will I be finding out or learning about?

This is an RE lesson. It is about Christianity and Jesus who is a special person for Christians. Look at a large cross and an image of a cross. Hold up a Bible. What is this book? Stories about Jesus can be found in this book.

Learning intentions: to know, to be able to do, to understand

Know the story of the ten lepers; to understand how it feels to give and receive thanks.

Achievable steps: What are we going to do? How are we going to do it?

We are going to listen to and explore a story about Jesus from the Bible. We are going to work in small groups or individually. We will explore the story using role play and we are going to talk about the feelings of the characters in the story. We are going to think about the meaning of the story and you will be able to choose how you explore your ideas in a number of different ways.

Teacher input: engaging the learner and encouraging thinking through visual, auditory and kinaesthetic cues

Pictures of people with leprosy. Share with the person next to you what you know about leprosy. It is an illness where you can’t feel the ends of your fingers, you could knock yourself and not know that you were hurt; a cut would get infected easily. This is a story of 10 men who had leprosy. If you had this illness everyone kept away from you because they did not want to catch it. Ask for volunteers to be Jesus and perhaps 3 disciples. Ask for 10 volunteers to stand alone in a corner. What does it feel like to be looked at? To have no one speak to you? The 10 ask to be made well. What are you thinking while you are waiting for Jesus to answer? Jesus says “Go to the priest”. Explain that only the priest could say if someone was clean and could live with others. Now what are you thinking? The 10 leave Jesus and on the way see that they are healed. What are you feeling? What will you do? One turns back and says “Thank you”. Jesus says “Ten men were healed where are the other nine? Why has only one person come back to say thank you to God?”

RESPONSE

Main activity: children explore the learning and establish meaning through activities which take account of multiple intelligences.

Explore the story using words collected during the telling as a starting point.

• What did you feel like when you knew you had leprosy?
• What did you feel like when Jesus said “Go to the priest”?
• What did you feel like when you said “Thank you”?

Use the words or phrases to

• create some choral speaking about the story in a small group
• make a collage using the words as part of the design
• make some music to accompany the words
• create a thank you card for some one you know
• make a game

Show you know: practise, rehearse and memorise key points. What have I learned?

The groups show their finished piece of work.

Reflection: How did I learn? What do I need to know next?

How did you learn about the story?
Talk to the person next to you or find someone who used a different approach to help them to understand the story.