Religious Education

T3 Progressive skills and content

• Place the concepts of God and Creation on a timeline of the Bible’s ‘Big Story’.

• Make clear links between Genesis 1 and what Christians believe about God and Creation.

• Describe what Christians do because they believe God is Creator. (For example, follow God, wonder at how amazing God’s creation is; care for the earth in some specific ways.)

• Ask questions and suggest answers about what might be important in the creation story for Christians living today, and for people who are not Christians.

T3 Knowledge Building Blocks

• God the Creator cares for the creation, including human beings.

• As human beings are part of God’s good creation, they do best when they listen to God.

• The Bible shows that God wants to help people to be close to him — he keeps his relationship with them, gives them guidelines on good ways to live (such as the Ten Commandments).

• Building block from EYFS: Christians believe God made our wonderful world and so we should look after it.

T4 Progressive skills and content

• Identify John 1 as part of a ‘Gospel’, noting some differences between John and the other Gospels.

• Offer suggestions for what texts about God might mean.

• Give examples of what the texts studied mean to some Christians.

• Describe how Christians show their beliefs about God the Trinity in the way they live.

• Make links between some of the texts and teachings about God in the Bible and what people believe about God in the world today, expressing some ideas of their own clearly.

T4 Knowledge Building Blocks

• 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.

• Jesus, the Son of God, is seen by Christians as revealing what God the Father is like.

• Understanding God is challenging; people spend their whole lives learning more and more about God.

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