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Year 5

Jews: how does remembering maintain Jewish identity?

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  • Nature of religion and belief

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In this unit pupils will study three Jewish festivals and the stories connected to them: Rosh Hashanah, Purim and Chanukah. They will make links between the stories of Esther and Judas Maccabee and the continuing survival of Jews. They will examine diversity within these festivals.

Situating this unit in Year 5 allows pupils to use their understanding of Judaism to look at these festivals in depth. In Year 3 pupils analysed the fesitval of Pesach. This unit builds on this with a focus on maintaining Jewish identity. It will allow pupils to understand how this identity has been under constant challenge through history and the role that fesitvals play in maintaining it.

  1. Rosh Hashanah: diverse Jewish celebrations
  2. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
  3. The story of Esther and Haman
  4. How Jews mark Purim today
  5. The story of Hanukkah
  6. Hanukkah and Jewish identity today

  • Pupils will know that there is diversity within Jewish worldviews
  • Pupils will have studied stories of the covenant and Pesach.
  • They will have an understanding that the Bar and Bat Mizvah are coming of age ceremonies and that Jerusalem is a holy place because of the Western Wall and the site of the Temple.
  • They will have examined Jewish festivals of Sukkot and The Festival of Trees.
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