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MEDIUM TERM PLANNING

SCHEME OF WORK: Religious Education

Key Stage:

Theme:

Link to Programme of Study/ Scheme of Work:

Date:

Class:

Religious Education Learning Outcomes (Attainment Targets 1 and 2) [WITH LINKS TO NATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OR, AS APPROPRIATE FOR GCSE, FOR EXAMPLE, AO1, AO2, AO3]

AT 1

AT 2

Link to Citizenship Learning Outcomes (using appropriate assessment criteria in relation to):

1. Knowledge and understanding about becoming informed citizens

2. Developing skills of enquiry and communication

3. Developing skills of participation and responsible action

Key Skills Checklist

Communication

Application of number

ICT

Working with others

Improving own learning and performance

Problem solving

Religious Education Scheme of Work

Lesson outlines and learning outcomes in brief

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Differentiation SEN (Confidential – liaison with SEN co-ordinator)

Assessment Opportunities

Informal (written formative, peer/ self-assessment, oral question and answer)

1.

2.

Formal (diagnostic, summative, coursework/ examination preparation)

1.

2.

Appropriate assessment criteria: Yes/ No

Recorded: Yes/ No

Feedback to pupils: Yes/ No

Reported externally (for example, parents): Yes/ No

Resources

1. ICT

2. TV/ video/ camcorder/ projector

3. Visitor/ guest speaker

4. Visit

Other

4.

5.

Teaching Methods Checklist

11. Art

12. Discussion

13. Drama

14. Experiential

15. Formal assessment

16. Group work

17. Pair work

18. Question and Answer

19. Research

20. Test

21. Visit

22. Visitor

23. Written work

Other

24.

25.

Appendix 2: The United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The United Nations was set up as a guardian of moral standards that all nations could agree to, regardless of religious, political or cultural background. Has the subsequent history of the world since that time would seem to be one of marked failure? Some would argue yes and the organising the world by committee is too impossible and infringes too many of the freedoms of nation states. Others argue that without the United Nations powerful countries would always run roughshod over poorer and less powerful countries.

On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The preamble to the declaration provides a foundation for modern-day human rights, based on the recognition that all humans have the right to freedom, justice and peace in the world. The preamble goes on to explain that when inalienable human rights are ignored, “barbarous acts” have occurred. And as the international legal implications of the original 30 articles are becoming ever more foundational to all aspects of the social and political life nations, so too the influence of religion and culture have proliferated, and in ways arguably unexpected in a mid-twentieth century world increasingly dominated by secular and often militantly atheistic ideologies.

In abbreviated form the thirty articles from the Universal Declaration are as follows.

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 1 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Article 2 Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Article 3 Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4 No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6 Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7 All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.

Article 8 Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights.

Article 9 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10 Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal.

Article 11 Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial.

Article 12 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home or correspondence.

Article 13 Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

Article 14 Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

Article 15 Everyone has the right to a nationality.

Article 16 Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family.

Article 17 Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

Article 18 Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

Article 19 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression

Article 20 Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

Article 21 Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country

Article 22 Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security.

Article 23 Everyone has the right to work.

Article 24 Everyone has the right to rest and leisure.

Article 25 Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being.

Article 26 Everyone has the right to education.

Article 27 Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community.

Article 28 Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29 Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.

Article 30 Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

The most fundamental critique of the UN era of human rights is in terms of practical rather than theoretical terms. Human rights in the UN system imply universality. Yet human values are by their nature contested and history reveals a tragically imperfect world where inequalities abound and justice is too often absent. At the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna expressions were made of the dismay and condemnation of the human rights’ violations that continue to be implemented in certain parts of the world. It is this most fundamental sense of inequality in the geographical expressions of human rights’ abuses that arguably presents the greatest cause of conflict the world over.

The UN today is far more representative than it was in 1948, with more than three times the number of nation states represented at the UN General Assembly. Ironically, the 1948 Universal Declaration is certainly the least democratically representative of all UN documents in human rights though remaining the most foundational. (The irony that two key signatories, Britain and France, retained at the time of the UN Declaration were exploitative vestiges of colonial empires in their overseas territories and dominions – is not lost on many developing nations.) In general, this is why there are ongoing debates about whether the original 30 articles have universal status as an outline statement of moral intent, let alone as a system of detailed moral and ethical guidance.