A powerpoint, activity and double-sided worksheet on Viking gods and goddesses. I made this for a high-achieving Year 5 class but it can be adapted quite easily.
A ppt and accompanying workbook which covers the entire module according to the OCR spec. Includes key information, quotes, scholars, activities and revision. There’s also a section in the booklet which includes additional homework essay questions / podcasts to listen to. Key topics include:
Duty to God and Duty to the State
Obedience, leadership and doing God’s will
Civil disobedience
Church as community and source of spiritual discipline
The Barmen declaration
Confessing church
Cheap v costly grace
The cost of discipleship
Solidarity
Should Christians perform civil disobedience?
Is it always possible to know God’s will?
Scholars who were influenced by Bonhoeffer
Scholars who Bonhoeffer was influenced by
Key teachings of Bonhoeffer
This is a full student workbook and accompanying ppt to cover the OCR A level topic of the Person of Jesus.
It includes:
Key theological, historical, and philosophical information:
Jesus as divine/a teacher of wisdom/a social revolutionary/a religious revolutionary/the Messiah
Rahner’s onion theory v kenosis
Scholarly views on his miracles
The truth behind the Resurrection
Ways Jesus’s actions caused conflict with various authorities
Extension tasks and discussion questions to stretch understanding
A wide range of exam-style questions
Suggested further reading, podcasts, and video resources to encourage independent research
A bank of model answers to support self-assessment and guided improvement
The ppt includes:
Engaging debate questions and structured academic prompts
Embedded video links for multimedia learning
Opportunities for role play and group discussion
Model answers provided in green, allowing students to attempt questions independently before refining their responses using the scaffolded guidance
This resource is especially helpful for teachers who are new to the topic or teaching it for the first time. It offers step-by-step support, extensive scaffolding, and clear exemplars throughout, making it easy to deliver high-quality, academically rigorous lessons with confidence.
I spent several days creating this resource and am proud of the result. I hope others find it just as valuable—particularly those looking for a well-supported, student-friendly introduction to this challenging area of study.
A bundle of 5 fully resourced hour-long lessons with worksheets, ppts, videos, scaffolding and frayer models - just print and go. Much time, effort and love has been put into this bundle of lessons as I made it as a scheme of work to be used across our entire trust of academies.
Lesson 1 - What was so radical about Jesus?
Lesson 2 - Was Jesus the Messiah?
Lesson 3 - Was Jesus really a pacifist?
Lesson 4 - Why did Jesus associate with sinners?
Lesson 5 - Was Jesus the ultimate feminist?
MTP also included in the bundle if you need it for your paperwork, although the lesson ppts and worksheets are absolutely user-friendly because they have been made with subject non-specialists in mind.
Powerful knowledge included in the SoW:
• Who was Jesus and what he was like?
• Prophecies of Zechariah and Isaiah
• Christians believe that Jesus was the Messiah, and that salvation comes through faith in him
• Jesus taught love, acceptance and forgiveness and actively sought out sinners as companions
• St Augustine proposed Just War Theory
• Jesus taught peace but was not a pacifist
• Women were not treated particularly well in the 1st century; Jesus tried to challenge certain gender stereotypes
• Although the main 12 disciples were men, Jesus kept female disciples also
A lesson I made to be shared across our whole trust of schools and taught in years 7/8.
Based upon the work of Desmond Tutu to bring about forgiveness in South Africa post-apartheid. Includes lots of reflection activities, video links, higher-level thinking questions and opportunities for philosophical debate. All questions have answers on the next slide in case the lesson is being taught by a non-specialist teacher.
A 10-page Easter revision booklet I made for a holiday revision session with my students (it can also be sent home as homework or used in class).
Includes lots of important references to religious stories and quotes, as well as opportunities to explore 12 mark questions.
We use Edexcel B Christian Beliefs, Christian Practices, Marriage and Family and Matters of Life and Death, but it can be adapted for other exam boards as well.
These interactive and engaging lessons were created for use in a high-achieving Year 4 class but could easily be adapted for other ages or abilities.
Lesson one starts off with a historical mystery - where has a buried skull come from? It then feeds through to information about the Celts, before getting the children to create a leaflet about the Celts.
Lesson two explains about Celtic religious beliefs and festivals before the children make a spinner out of card to show different festivals.
Set out in a geography mystery format, the children start off by being time travellers who have dropped into a period of time and have to work out where they are using a series of clue cards. It turns out they’ve landed in the middle of an enormous earthquake and have to produce a survival guide to help anyone who is in the same situation. Used for a high achieving Y5/6 class but can be adapted.
Basic script for run up to lesson on play writing - we're going to start writing our own plays based on where this script leaves off.
Used with a Y4 class but easily adaptable for all of KS2. Also includes worksheet for planning their own knight, and one to write about and draw key features of knights (like chivalry, bravery etc).
Included in this bundle are 36 support sheets to help students to answer D questions from Edexcel Religious Studies Spec B, Christianity and Islam. Each D question support sheet contains a flow chart on how to set out the answer, as well as helpful quotes to use and sentence starters. Most also contain ‘thinking points’ to add. There are also 6 bonus 5-mark question support sheets included.
4 ppt presentations and two worksheets on the topic of the Caribbean. Originally created for use with a high-achieving Year 6 class, these lessons can easily be adapted for use with other age groups and abilities.
Topics include Caribbean culture, piracy and triangular trade, and weather systems including Hurricane Sandy.
Three worksheets I created for use with various high-achieving classes on the topic of bullying. These can be easily adapted for use with other ages or abilities.
6 full lessons made for KS3 in a comprehensive workbook - no preparation needed.
Lesson objectives include:
1 - To draw comparisons between two great explorers, and discuss how faith may have helped them on their journeys.
2 - To consider how faith can help people through exceptional circumstances.
3 - To investigate the holy city of Varanasi and the pilgrimage focused on the River Ganges.
4 - To understand why Muslims make the pilgrimage to Mecca.
5 - To explain the significance of the Golden Temple for Sikhs.
6 - To explain using key terms why the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is sacred to Christians.
Ppt to introduce Ancient Egypt topic used with a high achieving Y3/4 class as well as a blank leaflet template for the children to create info sheets about Egypt.
Used in a high achieving Y3/4 classroom, but easily adapted.
The children have to use column addition to plan a party budget. There are also gift vouchers, additional problem sheets and shopkeeper responsibilities that can be shared out and help to differentiate.
I set this up as a proper shop using my highest achievers as shop-keepers. We used play money, set the classroom up as a shop and had some items set out for children to ‘buy’.
Living the Christian life - 2 lessons
Matters of life and death in Christianity - 2 lessons
Muslim beliefs - 2 lessons
Living the Muslim life - 2 lessons
Crime and Punishment in Islam - 2 lessons
Peace and Conflict in Islam - 2 lessons
Contains lots of activities for the kids to do, there are answers, scaffolding, videos etc - no printing required, no thinking required, just pull up the ppt and go. Used with my Y10 and 11 GCSE classes for Edexcel but can be adapted for other exam boards.
Three lessons based upon the Ancient Greece topic.
The first lesson is a ppt presentation which uses true/false format questions to engage the children in learning about Modern Greece. The children will then produce a leaflet about Modern Greece.
The second lesson is about daily life in Ancient Greece. Again there's a ppt presentation as well as cards to cut out and order for a hands-on activity. The children will then sketch an aspect of life in Ancient Greece to create a classroom display.
The third lesson is about gods and goddesses in Ancient Greece with various discussion opportunities and mini activities. The children will then sketch and write about different Greek gods.
I originally produced these resources for use in a high-achieving Year 4 class but they can very easily be adapted for different ages and abilities.
A ppt to introduce coral reefs as well as two worksheets. One requires the children to use the internet to research organisms that depend upon coral reefs, whilst the other has different questions based upon the ppt. Used for a high-functioning Y6 class.