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Unlock the power of creative storytelling in religious education with interactive activities, promoting inclusion, tolerance, and critical thinking. Bring stories to life through painting, poetry, and more to foster engagement and reflection. Be a storyteller, not just a reader!
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RE – out of the box… Providing opportunities for - • Creative storytelling • Outdoor learning • Speaking & Listening
Fred the Ted Community links diversity inclusion tolerance Similarities & differences acceptance
cREative Story Telling… Watch religious stories come alive in your classroom... • Opportunities for... • Developing THINKING SKILLS • Speaking & Listening • Being Reflective • Responding to BIG questions
cREative Story Telling... Stories are an integral part of all religious traditions and help to explain and sustain people’s belief and faith. Listening to stories is a wonderful way to engage children with these experiences.
cREative Story Telling… Creative story-telling is an interactive way of bringing a story to life and enabling children to respond creatively. The creative activities MUST help children to engage with the story, remember it, and begin to recognise its significance within a faith tradition.
cREative Story Telling… The story is re-enforced with opportunities for children to interpret the story for themselves and be cREative… through painting, writing poetry, making models, drawing etc
Creative story telling Siddartha and the swan
Siddartha & the Swan Wise words to my friends / my family / myself...
Creative outdoor opportunities own ideas… 1. 2. 3.
HELP! I’m telling a story in RE… Be a Story Teller NOT a Story Reader! BE PREPARED! Be Inclusive: questions to engage children Be cREative: Open-ended activity / Thinking Skills Be reflective: Include ‘I wonder...’ statements
What next? GET READY…. • Choose a religious story • Become familiar with the story • Music: played whilst telling the story • Think of some engaging questions • Think BIG: ‘I wonder...’ questions for the children to reflect on • Be cREative... • Share group or individual work GO!
Early Years / KS1: When Father Christmas Came to See Me. Forest School Christmas Experience. An idea that inspired me from RE Today.
3 ideas to take away… 1. 2. 3.