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Progressive skills and content

• Identify the difference between a ‘Gospel’, which tells the story of the life and teaching of Jesus, and a letter. 

• Offer suggestions about what texts about baptism and Trinity might mean. 

• Give examples of what these texts mean to some Christians today. 

• Describe how Christians show their beliefs about God the Trinity in worship (in baptism and prayer, for example) and in the way they live. 

• Make links between some Bible texts studied and the idea of God in Christianity, expressing clearly some ideas of their own about what the God of Christianity is like.

• Make clear links between the story of Noah and the idea of covenant. 

• Make clear links between the story of Abraham and the concept of faith. 

• Make simple links between promises in the story of Noah and promises that Christians make at a wedding ceremony. 

• Make simple links between People of God and how some Christians choose to live in their whole lives and in their church communities. 

At the end of the unit I will know that:

• Christians believe God is Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

• Christians believe The Father creates; he sends the Son who saves his people; the Son sends the Holy Spirit to his followers. 

• Christians find that understanding God is challenging; people spend their whole lives learning more and more about God. 

• Christians really want to try to understand God better and so try to describe God using symbols, similes and metaphors, in song, story, poems and art. 

• Christians worship God as Trinity. It is a huge idea to grasp and Christians have created art to help to express this belief. 

• Christians believe the Holy Spirit is God’s power at work in the world and in their lives today, enabling them to follow Jesus.