Deeper Learning in ….

ISLAM

Presenter: Helen Matter, Diocesan Schools’ Adviser

Teaching about Islam

• Holding onto the Attitudes required of us in RE: Self-acceptance, Respect for all, Appreciation and wonder, Open-mindedness

• Note down three things you would expect to find in RE work on Islam.

• What does deeper imply? Probing in to beliefs, asking why rather than accumulating more and more at tourist / media level …..

Going deeper ……

Take a key belief or concept and unpack it.

• ENGAGE - Make links with the children’s experience…. It’s a bit like ….

• ENQUIRE - Introduce a mystery / picture / story etc to generate questions

• EXPLORE - Track the concept in Muslim text, practice and daily life.

• EVALUATE / EXPRESS - Check your understanding and share your learning.

Deeper learning about Islam in the Suffolk Syllabus …..

• An encounter in EYFS - primacy of God’s name / Allah

• A possible KS1 unit - peace / obedience

• 4 required units in KS2 using Learning Themes:

Religion and the Individual – Submission

Inspirational People - Prophethood

Teachings and Authority - Revelation

Beliefs and Questions - Tawheed /one-ness

Religion and the Individual

SUBMISSION

Sometimes it is wise to submit …

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT1LnQXxRSg

Inspirational People

PROPHETHOOD

Teachings and Authority

REVELATION

Revelation

A revelation

• I am leaving you a trust. So long as you cling to it you can’t go wrong. That is the rope God has extended from heaven to earth. That is the Qur’an. (Hadith of Darimi 1)

Beliefs and Questions

TAWHEED

Tawheed - oneness

tawheed - hajj - ummah

Even Deeper Learning ….

• What aspects of ‘submission’ to God do you find difficult? How hard is submission during Ramadan?

• Can you give us an example of how you have felt part of the worldwide body (ummah) of Muslims?

• What would you say to teachers / pupils about Islam in relation to events which show Muslims in a poor light?

What next?• EYFS – Muslim section in first of EYFS units on CD1.

• KS1 Muslim unit to be written in July

• KS2 Muslim units ready for trialling for people who have attended an introductory course . You can still attend a course this summer / autumn. Book with jacqui.studd@cofesuffolk.org

• June 27/28 or July 12/13 or xxxxx

• End of year – publication of CD2 with other faiths for KS2 and Judaism / Islam units for KS1 Give us your email and we will let you know personally.

Contact me: helen.matter@cofesuffolk.org