The Smart board slides take you through the lesson. Our children were learning about pilgrimage across religions and didn't know a lot about Islam but managed to understand the key concepts. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK. They enjoyed watching the 2nd video and I made the questions seem like a quiz and challenged them to get them all right. I had to pause the video a few times though! There is a question sheet and then some pictures for them to copy. In the next lesson I would recap and get them to write about it.

This was part of a festival topic we did in year 6 where the children imagined going round the UK to different festivals. In the first two lessons the children plan what they would need to take on a trip and design their own vehicle (DT). They begin in Norwich at the Dragon Festival and then move on to Birmingham for the Sikh New Year festival (Vaisakhi). Then they pop over to India! Then return for the Festival of Speed and the Welsh Music festival.The Smart Boards are detailed and can be followed without a lesson plan. Then they travel to Northern Ireland.

These lessons explore the question ‘If everyone followed the Middle Way, would there be a perfect world?’ The children do not have to know anything about Buddhism. The lessons explore the meaning of this question and look at what The middle Way means and at the Eightfold Path. Children gain a good understanding of this and also reflect on their own ideas of what a perfect world would be. This leads to a debate about the question which can be recorded as evidence.

You can cut up the information and then the children have to order it and stick it on a timeline of his life.