Year 5 worship

• Religious education
• Primary Education

Lesson one: 

To explore the meaning of worship and what it looks like to us.

Name the different
religions

Hinduism

Islam

Buddhism

Judaism

Sikh

Worship 

What is worship

How much is this TV worth?

How much is this TV worth?

1. £20
2. £4000
3. £100
4. £800

The definition of worship....

The feeling or act of showing adoration, respect, loyalty and love. 

Remember it is the feeling or act of showing adoration, respect, loyalty and love.

Who or what do you respect and show adoration and loyalty to?

How might you show this love and adoration (worship)?

What is one thing that is more important to you than 

anything/anyone else?

Show this one thing clearly on the top layer of the spinner.

Show how this one thing is displayed in your life in 

different ways on the bottom layer.

Once finished, carefully insert the split pin.

What is one thing that is more important to you than anything/anyone else?

Show this one thing clearly on the top layer of the spinner. Show how this one thing is displayed in your life in different ways on the bottom layer.

Once finished, carefully insert the split pin.

Complete your Worship Spinner, showing who or what you respect and show adoration and loyalty to. 

Task:

Spinner task 

Select the correct definition for worship

1. The feeling or act of showing love, adoration and respect.
2. The feeling or act of greed and disrespect

Lesson two:

To reflect upon how music makes us feel and why it is used for religious worship.

How are you feeling?

Can you imagine a world without music? 

Music can be used to express or communicate emotion: happiness, fear, etc.

We don’t all feel the same way when we hear a piece of music. Sometimes we are affected by our own experiences, where we are when we hear the music, our own beliefs and our own musical tastes.

Complete worksheet 

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Buddhists chant religious texts. 

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Classical music

instruments 

mantras

bell

bhajan (devotional song)

Sikhism

Hymns from the Guru Granth Sahib are chanted.

Songs are based on the scriptures.

Reading from the Torah is chanted.

Muslims recite surahs (chapters)

from the Qur’an.

A call to prayer is a single voice using rhythm and tone.

Islamic call to prayer

Muslims recite surahs (chapters) from the Qur’an.

A call to prayer is a single voice using rhythm and tone.

How are you feeling?

Lesson three:

Explore how and why religious believers pray. 

Lesson 3 

What do you think prayer is?

For religious believers, praying is a way of talking to God. People pray in different ways. They might…

• pray the same prayers at the same time every day.
• pray on their own, choosing their own words.
• pray to God or another special person or thing.
• pray silently.
• pray together, saying the same words at the same time.
• wash before they pray.
• pray before they eat.

Lord's Prayer

Which religion?

Many Christians pray a prayer that Jesus told his disciples in the Bible. This special prayer is called the Lord’s Prayer and is prayed by Christians on their own and during church services.

Who are Christians praying to? How do you know?

The words of the Shema are taken from the Jewish holy book, the Torah. It is a long prayer but begins with the words, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord is our G-d, the Lord is One’. This helps to remind Jews of their belief that their God is the only God.

Jewish believers have a special prayer, too. This prayer is prayed every day in the morning and the evening. It is even found in a special scroll, called a mezuzah, on the doorposts of their homes. The prayer is called the Shema.

Interesting Fact!

Did you notice that the letter ‘o’ is missing from the word ‘God’? This is because Jews believe that God’s name is holy and should not be written down where it could be changed or erased.

Hear, Israel, the Lord is our G-d, the Lord is One.

Blessed be the Name of His glorious kingdom for ever and ever.

And you shall love the Lord your G-d with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

And these words I command you today shall be in your heart.

And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall speak of them when you sit at home, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Is this prayer asking for something or making a promise?

Jews pray this prayer as a reminder of God’s power and their promise to follow His commandments.

This prayer is very special to Jews and because it includes God’s commandments to them, it might not be as special to other people who do not share their beliefs.

Task: 

In pairs, each group will look at a different prayer from a different religion. 

You are to discuss: 

What is the prayer about?

Why might religious believers pray this prayer?

How might someone feel as they pray this prayer? How might they feel after praying?

What is the Jewish prayer called?

1. Mezuzah
2. Prayer
3. Shema
4. Lord's Prayer

What is prayer to religious believers?

1. A way of talking to God
2. Not talking to God
3. Speaking to their friends

Lesson four: 

Explore worship in art

Starter - what is worship?

People worship in different ways, using music and prayer.

How does this piece of art mark you feel?

How is art used as a form of expression?

to convey or evoke emotion;

to share ideas on a certain topic;

to represent something that inspires;

to record an event or other significant happening or person.

Mazes, or labyrinths, can also be used spiritually by religious believers. People believe that mazes and labyrinths can help us focus on life’s journeys and the route we take. 

Repeating patterns are used in similar ways to help people focus their minds on one thing; in the case of religious believers, this is usually their god or spiritual being.

How could religious believers use art as a form of worship?

Task:

In pairs discuss and write your ideas about the religious art. 

Extension:

You are now the artist! Have a go at creating you own piece of art. What will it represent? 

Why are repeated patterns used in religious art?

1. To help focus their mind on one thing.
2. Because they like the same pattern
3. So they become distracted easily.
4. Because they could not think of anything else.