KS1 RE What Do Jewish People Believe About God? (6 Lesson Unit)

A complete 6 lesson KS1 RE unit exploring the question:
What do Jewish people believe about God?

This unit is fully aligned with the Northamptonshire Agreed Syllabus 2025 to 2030.

Designed for real KS1 classrooms, each lesson uses short, structured learning steps and regular opportunities for pupil talk to support attention, participation and understanding.

Oracy is woven throughout, with structured questions and sentence stems in every lesson to develop vocabulary, confidence and reasoning.

Across the unit, pupils explore Jewish beliefs about God and begin to understand how these beliefs are shown through Shabbat, Havdalah and everyday life.

Lessons included:

Lesson 1 What do Jewish people believe about God?
Lesson 2 What is Shabbat and why is it important?
Lesson 3 What happens during Shabbat?
Lesson 4 What is Havdalah?
Lesson 5 What values does Shabbat teach?
Lesson 6 How do Jewish people show their beliefs?

Each lesson includes:
• A clear, ready to use slideshow
• A purposeful main activity with varied task types
• Structured oracy question and sentence stem
• Reflection opportunities to support explanation
• Widgit compatible key vocabulary
• Optional printable activity sheets

Pupils learn:
• Jewish people believe in one God
• Shabbat is an important weekly practice
• Havdalah marks the end of Shabbat
• Values help guide everyday life
• Belief and action are connected

The unit follows a clear progression from belief, to practice, to meaning, to synthesis.

Lessons are carefully structured to reduce cognitive overload and work with real KS1 attention spans, making them practical, engaging and easy to deliver.

Low prep, inclusive and suitable for Year 1 and Year 2.

Also available as individual lessons in this store.