R.E. 

Progressive skills and content

• Identify and name examples of what Hindus have and do in their families and at mandir to show their faith.

• Describe some examples of what Hindus do to show their faith, and make connections with some Hindu beliefs and teachings about aims and duties in life.

• Describe some ways in which Hindus express their faith through puja, aarti and bhajans.

• Ask good questions about what Hindus do to show their faith.

• Suggest at least two reasons why being a  Hindu is a good thing in Britain today and two reasons why it might be hard sometimes.

• Explain similarities and differences between Hindu worship and worship in another religious tradition pupils have been taught.

• Discuss links between the actions of Hindus in helping others and ways in which people of other faiths and beliefs, including pupils themselves, help others.

• Discuss and present ideas about what it means to be a Hindu in Britain today, making links with their own experiences.

Knowledge Building Blocks

• Find out how Hindus show their faith within their families.

• Learn that 'Hinduism' is incredibly diverse as a whole way of life rather than a set of beliefs.

• Find out about the objects involved in puja at home and at the mandir; murtis, family shrine, statues and pictures of deities, puja tray including incense, fruit, bells, flowers, candles.

• Learn about an important sacred text;  the Bhagavad Gita.

• Learn about Hindu religious ritual; the OM, blessing food, the aarti ceremony, singing hymns (bhajans).

• Explore Hindu ideas about the four aims of life (punusharthas) dharma: religious or moral duty; artha: economic development, providing for family and society by honest means; kama: regulated enjoyment of the pleasures and beauty of life; moksha: liberation from the cycle of birth and rebirth; reincarnation.

• Explore Hindu ideas of karma – how actions bring good or bad karma. Find out how and why ‘snakes and ladders’ links with Hindu ideas of karma.

• Explore what Hindus do to show their tradition within their faith.

• Find out about the deities and how they help Hindus achieve moral aims.

• Find out about moral aims for others and moral aims for self; karma and dharma.

• See what Hindu moral teachings in action look like:  Mahatma Gandhi, Pandurang Shastri Athavale.