Key Stage 2 Year 5
A Fertile Heart Receiving & Giving Creative Love
Love is creative. To have a fertile heart is to love, grow and make a positive difference.
A Fertile Heart Receiving & Giving Creative Love
Children have a natural desire to love. They have a longing to make a difference. They love growing. A Fertile Heart helps them understand that these desires are all connected. God’s first words to us were, “Be fertile!” And the whole of the Bible teaches us that we are fertile through healthy, loving relationships – with God and each other. Learning to authentically and appropriately receive and give love leads to us having fertile hearts. Using the concept ‘fertile’ helps the children see the similarity between plants growing through fertile soil, sun and water, and us growing through a caring environment, love and truth.
Key Stage 2: Year 3
Contents: Year 5 Y5 focuses on key elements of relationship: its importance; self-development leading to self-giving; the reason we long for relationship; marriage and family; freedom, tolerance and solidarity; the logical reasoning of God’s existence; and understanding discernment, appropriate trust, and our impulses and influences. Module 5a: Life is Relational - especially for Persons! Reflecting on nature and experience, we see that everything is relational. Persons can relate in a deeper way than things and animals. In the light of this, it is important to think through what is needed to be a person. Module 5b: Self-knowledge, Self-Possession, Self-Gift As persons, relationship is central to us. In order to relate I need self-knowledge and self-possession, to then selfgive. Today’s objective is to understand what these mean and why they are so vital to being a person. Module 5c: God is Relationship: We Long to be like Him If God is a communion of three persons in one God, then relationship is at the heart of God, so it is not surprising that it is at the heart of us, made in his image. My deepest desires are, therefore, to be with God, to know, and love him, to be known and loved by him, and so be joyful. Module 5d: Marriage and Growing in Love To understand that marriage gives a home for children to grow. To see that marriage also helps the wife and husband grow. Module 5e: Freedom To understand the importance of freedom, and how it is linked to happiness. To understand the two ideas of freedom - one that is right, one that we often feel is right. Module 5f: Freedom in Christ Through looking at what Jesus teaches us, we back up the last module’s understanding how freedom is our ability to act in harmony with our God-given nature. Module 5g: Tolerance To understand that all human persons share an equal, immeasurable dignity - because we are all made in the image of God. There are differences between people, however there is no place in us, or in society, for prejudice or discrimination against any human person. Persons with differences should always be respected. With communication and right tolerance, differences often become important parts of relationship. Module 5h: Tolerance and Solidarity However a person acts, they are still a person, and should be treated with dignity. However, that is different from saying everything everyone does is good if that’s what they want, because persons relate to each other in solidarity, and so, alongside personal dignity is personal responsibility. Module 5i: God and Dominoes! Self-development and growing in love are strengthened if we can be sure that there is a God who is moving things and calling us to grow. From reason alone we can know there is a God who guides us. Module 5j: Discernment and Trust part one To further understand the many impulses we have inside us, even in reaction to the smallest things. To understand the importance of discerning whether they are good impulses, and which are more important. To learn which types of impulses are normally good for me and which are not. Module 5k: Discernment and Trust part two Continuing what we learnt last time about discernment and trust, to understand that we are influenced by others. We need to understand how they try to influence us, and discern who should be trusted and how.