CREATIVE TEACHING AND
LEARNING
JUNE 2009
WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR?
KEY QUESTIONS
What must I do to enable pupils to
achieve Level X?
How do I create the opportunity for the
pupil to begin work at the next level?
EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND
LEARNING
Key factors:
• Confident grasp of the subject matter.
• Assessment for Learning strategies firmly
embedded.
• Detailed, rigorous planning to the levels.
• High expectations.
• Creative, challenging, differentiated, rigorous,
enjoyable teaching and learning strategies.
TEACHER PREPARATION,
REFLECTION AND SUBJECT
KNOWLEDGE
• What does neighbour mean to
you?
• How are you a good neighbour?
• Brainstorm together any Scripture
quotes or stories relating to
‘Who is my neighbour?’
RELEVANT SCRIPTURE
• Psalm 18 – ‘..spreading God’s love to neighbours
everywhere…’
• Matthew 5: 6-10 – ‘ Happy are those who hunger and thirst for
what is right…..’
• Matthew 5: 43-48 – ‘… love your enemies…..’
• Luke 10: 25-37 – Good Samaritan
• John 10:10 - ‘I have come that you may have life…..’
• Matthew 22:39 – ‘ You must love your neighbour as yourself.’
• Matthew 25:45 – ‘Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers
and sisters, you do to me.’
• Luke 6:30 – ‘Treat others as you would like them to treat you.’
• John 13: 1-20 – Washing of the Feet
PLANNING THROUGH THE
LEVELS
SOME EXAMPLES
FOUNDATION STAGE
• Make a big wall picture called: ‘We are all neighbours under
one sky.’
• Make a big book of David’s psalm – in groups design a page
each like a picture story. Reception could make it for Nursery.
Last page can be a picture of all of them, plus pictures of
others.
• Make a big globe filled with people/faces.
• Make a display including photos and annotations about when
the children have helped each other. Encourage the children to
add to it and include times when they have helped others at
playtime or at home.
• Play next door neighbour game. Children draw a picture or
make something in the make and do area, explain that they are
making it for someone but they don’t know who. Children join
the circle with their drawing and then explain that they have all
brought a gift for the person next to them, their neighbour.
LEVEL 1
AT1i- Recognise some religious stories.
AT1iii – Recognise that people because of their
religion act in a particular way.
AT2i – Talk about their own experiences and feelings.
Everyone is a neighbour loved by God.
• Using King David’s Psalm (18) make a big wall picture of all
God’s creation and many different people looking up at it.
• Use God’s Story 2 p65 telling Jesus’ teaching on looking after
each other. Act out some scenarios of helping each other.
Freeze frame, photograph, project onto whiteboard, talk about
what is happening.
• Write a class Thank You litany about being good neighbours to
each other.
• Set up a simple radio programme scenario where children talk
about how they and others have helped other people.
LEVELS 1 & 2
AT1i
A Powerpoint presentation of the Good
Samaritan can be found at:
www.sermons4kids.com/powerpoint_pre
sentations.htm
It can be used to tell the story visually
and use as you wish.
Other stories are on the website.
LEVEL 2
AT2i – Ask and respond to questions about their own
and others’ experiences and feelings.
Activity using Art and digital photos.
Google a Good Samaritan picture.
Arrange pupils as characters in the
painting. Photograph them. Interview
them. What are the characters thinking,
feeling, saying?
LEVEL 2
AT1iii – Describe some ways in which religion is lived out by
believers.
Activity using CAFOD website, DVD ‘One
Day One World’ and resource pack –
‘Who Is My Neighbour?’
Working in small groups with the various
resources, pupils prepare a
presentation in any way they wish
describing the work of CAFOD. Each
group shares with the rest of the class.
LEVEL 2
AT1i – Retell some special stories about religious
events and people.
Activity using roleplay and Photostory.
Read the story of the Good Samaritan from
God’s Story 2 using text and pictures. As
pupils act out the story, take photos. Using
Photostory, write a caption/paragraph
sequencing the story.
LEVEL 2
AT2i – Ask and respond to questions about
their own and others’ experiences and feelings.
‘ A picture tells a thousand words’
Activity using photo galleries/packs.
Photo galleries can be found at
www.christianaid.org.uk/Teachingresources/primary/photogalleries
or CAFOD have photo packs.
Pupils take on the role of a person in the
photo. In pairs, roleplay a reporter
interviewing the person about their
experiences and feelings.
LEVEL 3
AT1i – Make links between religious stories and beliefs
Activity using Art – Good Samaritan
painting.
Write an article for your local
neighbourhood newsletter showing
how the Gospel story depicted in this
painting is linked to being a good
neighbour.
LEVEL 3
AT1ii – Use a developing religious vocabulary to give
reasons for religious actions and symbols.
AT1iii – Give reasons for certain actions by believers.
How do neighbouring Christian Churches
worship and live out their Christian beliefs?
Activity – Venn Diagram
Using information gathered from visiting other
churches or talking to people from other
churches, produce a Venn diagram showing
the similarities and differences between how
and why different Christian denominations
worship and practice their religion.
( Possibility of achieving Level 4 with more
depth)
LEVEL 3
AT2i – Make links to show how feelings and beliefs
affect their behaviour and that of others
Activity using digital storytelling – PhotoStory 3
Make links to show how Christian beliefs affect behaviour.
Example of activity: Invite visitors into school and ask them questions
about how and why they help their neighbours, near and far.
Download PhotoStory 3 from
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/
default.mspx
Provide pupils with cameras and recording equipment.
In groups, pupils devise a set of questions to ask visitors.
Invite visitors.
Digitally record interviews.
Each group presents their interview to the class.
Consolidate findings and summarise as appropriate.
LEVEL 3
AT1iii- Give reasons for certain actions by believers.
LEVEL 4
AT1iii – Show understanding of how religious belief shapes life.
Our neighbours in other Christian
Churches.
Activity – Prepare an information sheet
for parents/carers.
Set up interviews/visits with neighbours from
other local Christian Churches asking how
and why they help and support neighbours
near and far. Design and prepare an
information sheet to take home.
LEVEL 4
AT1i – Describe and show understanding of religious sources,
beliefs, ideas, feelings and experiences; making links between
them.
AT1iii – Show understanding of how religious belief shapes life.
Activity – TV Documentary.
In small groups, write a script for a TV
documentary entitled:
‘Who is my Neighbour?’
Use Scripture sources, websites, CAFOD
packs etc
Using a camcorder, prepare and record the
programme and share it with the class.
LEVEL 4
AT1iii – Show understanding of how religious
belief shapes life.
Activities researching a website.
• Write an article for a magazine showing
your understanding of how the work of
CAFOD is inspired by the Gospels.
• Write a letter to your
headteacher/parish priest encouraging
the school/families/parish to buy fairly
traded products.
LEVEL 4
AT2ii – Engage with and respond to questions of life in the light of
religious teaching.
‘Big Question’ – Why are people poor?
Activity using ICT- Prepare a PPT presentation for a
school assembly.
Using learning from CAFOD resource pack ‘Who Is My
Neighbour’ particularly Worksheets 1 & 9, explore
the question ‘Why are people poor?’ in the light of
religious teaching. In pairs/ as a class/small groups
prepare a PPT presentation for a school assembly.
LEVEL 4
AT1iii – Show understanding of how religious
belief shapes life.
Activity – Research the work of aid agencies.
Divide the class into groups.
Each group research the religious beliefs
behind the work of agencies such as SVP, St
Cuthbert’s Care, Mission Together, Christian
Aid, Oxfam etc.
Each group present their findings to the class
showing their understanding of how
religious belief shapes these organisations.
LEVEL 4
AT2i – Show how own and others’ decisions are
informed by beliefs and values.
Activity – Debate
Using the material on Worksheet 10 of
the CAFOD resource pack, set up a
debate entitled:
There will always be poor
people.
LEVEL 5
AT1ii- Describe and explain the meaning and
purpose of a variety of forms of worship.
How do neighbouring Christian Churches
worship?
Activity: Find out how 2 or 3 other
churches in your area worship. Ask the
ministers or worshippers why they do
what they do.
Present your findings in a creative way.
LEVEL 5
AT2i – Explain what beliefs and values inspire and
influence them and others.
Activity – Research using the internet.
Access the CAFOD website
www.cafod.org.uk and make notes on
the values which underpin their work.
Find out where these come from.
Write a letter to CAFOD explaining what
values and Scripture inspired your
school to raise money for a CAFOD
project.
LEVEL 5
AT1iii - Identify similarities and differences between
peoples’ responses to social and moral issues because
of their beliefs.
Activity – Venn Diagram
Produce a Venn diagram to identify
the similarities and differences
between how Christians and nonbelievers would respond to the
problem of poverty.