Unit title	Year	Background notes
How do I feel about change?	2	In this unit, pupils will be encouraged to think about change and how it affects them. They will respond to changes in the world around them. They will reflect on important events in their lives that lead to big changes in home life. They will use stories, including some from faith traditions, as a way of talking about how people can change their beliefs or behaviour.

Key questions	Concept/s	Learning outcomes	Suggested activities	Resources
How have I changed in my life?	Change Growing up	To understand that everyone changes as they grow up To be able to explain how they have changed in their own life	· The theme could begin with dance to show how people change as they grow older …beginning with the toddler taking the first steps … putting on a uniform to go to school … going to work … driving a car … walking more slowly as they get older … · Talk about personal changes (both obvious and less obvious) that they are aware of as they grow up eg growing taller, helping more, being braver, becoming better at reading	Photographs or videos from home Pictures of people at different stages of life
How does the world around me change?	Change Nature Environment Transformation	To be able to give examples of how change is reflected in the world around them To be able to express their own feelings about change in the world	· The class could invite in older people who live near the school to speak about their memories of the school and the local area, and what changes have taken place in their lifetime · Children could take photographs, or draw pictures of the natural environment around the school, to compare in a different season · They could write a class poem based on the idea of 'This used to be …but now it is’ after exploring different things that change or are transformed eg ice into water, a seed into a plant, night into day	The Crooked Apple Tree by Eric Houghton (Barefoot Books, ISBN 1-902283-30-9)
What big changes happen in families?	Stages in life Birth Marriage Divorce Death Ceremonies	To be able to share personal examples of life-changing events in the family To understand how ceremonies can mark these special times in life	· Discuss happy or sad events in families, recording them in two columns and thinking of signs or symbols which might record each event eg a cake with candles for a birthday · Watch a video, look at cards and hear stories of how new babies are welcomed in different traditions · Make up a class ceremony to welcome a new baby brother or sister of someone in the class · Put together a special book to present to the family of the baby with pictures and drawings to record the ceremony that the class created	BBC 'Watch' programme on Beginnings and Endings I feel Sad by Brian Moses (ISBN 0-7502 1406) Something Else by Catherine Cave (ISBN 014054907 2) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox (Omnibus Books, ISBN 1862913471)
What makes people change from bad to good?	Kindness Repentance Forgiveness	To be able to share views about what bad and good things people do and why To be able to identify ways in which good actions may help others To know a story from the Christian tradition which showed how someone changed	· Discuss the good and bad things that people do, why they might behave like this and how pupils feel towards them and what they do · Listen to the story of Jesus and Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10), from the Christian tradition, and talk about the way in which Zacchaeus changed · Share other examples of how people have changed, and why · Make up own role plays based on children who are helped to behave better after good actions by others	Buddhist story of the monkey king Scholastic Curriculum Bank, Bk 1, pp53-54, 129-130