RE: People in Christianity - St Patrick & St Brendan - Ireland in Schools

Key Questions Learning Objectives Activities LearningOutcome/AssessmentWhat was StBrendan’svoyage like?• To reflect on the feelingsof St Brendan.• To express feelingsthrough music.• To be aware that beliefscan be expressed indifferent forms.• Display a map of Brendan’s journey. Stickpictures or words on it to show/describe thefeelings at each stage of the journey.• Devise a story bowl together. What wouldthe ingredients be to tell the story of StBrendan? What characters?, Feelings? etc.• Show the children an empty envelopeaddressed to ‘My dear friend, Enda’. Explainthat the letter, from Brendan, has gonemissing. Decide where on the journey it waswritten and compose a letter together. Itshould show Brendan’s fears, hopes,excitement, etc. Depending on ability,children could then compose another letterfor a different stage of the journey on theirown or with support.Pupils...• Identify thefeelings of StBrendan.• Empathisewith thefeelings of StBrendan.• Listen to short extracts from ‘The BrendanVoyage’ by Shaun Davey.• Ask the children to close their eyes and thinkabout the music. What pictures does it bringto their minds? Why might that be? Discussthe instruments used. Draw the things thatcome to their minds and discuss. Do theythink the extracts relate to specific parts ofBrendan’s journey? Which? Why?• Ask the children, in small groups, to makeup sounds/music to represent differentfeelings, such as, anger, excitement, sadness,happiness, peace, fear. Whatobjects/instruments would they choose tomake the sounds? Why? Would the soundsbe loud / soft? Fast/slow? Etc. Oncecomposed the children could write simplepoems about their emotions to read withtheir ‘music’. This could be performed to theclass or an assembly.• Imagine that you could go back in time andmeet St Brendan. What questions would thechildren like to ask him? As well as simpledetails encourage questions on feelings andreasons for his actions. Teacher in the role ofSt Brendan then takes the hot seat andanswers questions put to them from thechildren, giving as much detail as possibleabout him. A role on the wall of Brendanshould then be created, gathering all theinformation learned about him together. (Asimple outline of a person is drawn anddetails written around the outside. Feelingsare written inside the outline).• Interpretfeelings/eventsexpressedthrough music.• Expressemotions,symbolicallythrough music.• Are aware thatmusic cansymboliseemotions.• Be becomingaware thatbeliefs can beexpressedthroughdifferentforms.NCC Education, RE (KS1-2): Saints, 8