PRIMARY FEATURE: CREATION TABLES CELEBRATING CREATION WITH CREETING ST MARY'S Children from Liz Christian's class at Creeting St Mary School made a Creation Table of their own, using material from the school grounds. Why not make your own? Here Liz tells us what was achieved and how. "The various tasks my class completed in relation to the Creation Table covered RE, literacy, art and design, music, ICT and PSHE. They were as follows:    Discuss the creation story in the Bible (Genesis 1) Walk around the school grounds to search for items of creation. Collect these where possible. List on the board all the items seen and collected. Use them to personalise Dottie and Buzz's Creation Song - looking at syllables, rhythm and patterns within the song. For the display, select from the items collected those that would be better pressed, those which would keep naturally and those which would dry effectively. Use examples of creation in art and design. Look at creation in the light of being 'amazing!' Find facts in non-fiction books to share with others, showing something YOU personally find amazing and that you didn't know before. Select the most amazing fact to write inside a speech bubble to hang from the creation tree. Provide an illustration (Year 3 Term 1 Sentence Level 9) Go to the Amazing Facts Tree. By a voting system using counters, the class select which designs should be placed on the speech bubbles. This was a most enjoyable way to use the story of creation. It became a link for the week in the various subject areas and the final result was a display every member of the class was proud of because they had all taken part. It was able to stay in the classroom for a good few weeks due to the 'sorting' of the examples of creation. The children thoroughly enjoyed teaching the rest of the school their version of the Creation Song and were very pleased to sing it in church. This approach allowed us to see the school grounds as a very valuable resource and we have never had such fun with sculpture before in this way - all natural and easily selected and collected by the children immediately!"

CLASSROOM ACTIVITY: Making your own creation table (Taking a closer look at the creation table)

CLASSROOM ACTIVITY: The amazing facts tree


FOR TEACHERS...

CASE STUDY: Creeting's Creation Table

HOW TO... Hold a Creation Table Day


Go to The Creation Table contents


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