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T5 Progressive skills and content

• Describe and make connections between anti-racism and religion.

• Describe examples of what is unjust about racism, referring to teaching from different religions and worldviews.

• Show understanding of the challenges racism presents to human communities and consider different religious responses.

• Discuss their own and others’ ideas about reducing racism and prejudice, informed by a rich knowledge of case studies.

• Apply ideas about values and from scriptures to the title question.

• Consider and evaluate the significance of at least three key ideas about racism they have studied, in relation to their own ideas.

• Find out about at least two examples of anti-racism that have been effective.

• Explain links between different cases of racism using key words including ‘stereotype’ and ‘prejudice.’

T5 Knowledge Building Blocks

• Study some people who have given their lives to reducing prejudice and hatred.

• Learn in depth and detail about the statues of Colston and Wesley in Bristol.

• Think about the ways that scriptures encourage religious people to treat all humans with dignity, respect, equity or love – and consider reasons why this does not always happen.

• Learn that early Christian traditions include important stories about human unity, even though the Christian church has sometimes been complicit in racism.

• Learn that Prophet Muhammad taught his followers to set racial difference aside.

T6 Progressive skills and content

•  Explain connections between biblical texts and the concept of the Kingdom of God. 

• Consider different possible meanings for the biblical texts studied, showing awareness of different interpretations. 

• Make clear connections between belief in the Kingdom of God and how Christians put their beliefs into practice in different ways, including in worship and in service to the community. 

• Relate Christian teachings or beliefs about God’s Kingdom to the issues, problems and opportunities of their own lives and the life of their own community in the world today, offering insights about whether or not the world could or should learn from Christian ideas.

T6 Knowledge Building Blocks

• Jesus told many parables about the Kingdom of God. These suggest that God’s rule has begun, through the life, teaching and example of Jesus, and subsequently through the lives of Christians who live in obedience to God. 

• The Kingdom is compared to a feast where all are invited to join in. Not everyone chooses to do so. 

• Many Christians try to extend the Kingdom of God by challenging unjust social structures in their locality and in the world.