Topic title Subject specific Guidance Learning activity Resources detail Lesson Number Lessons Introduction to The bigger festivals It will be helpful if the Students create a four page leaflet A list of the Gurpurbs 9-10 Sikh festivals of Vaisakhi and students understand the entitled Sikh Gurpurbs” including can be found at: “The (focusing on Divali will be importance of the Gurus pictures and information. One page could the Gurpurbs covered later. As as role-models for Sikhs focus on akhand path and another on and including the gurpurbs link to today. Hence the differences between UK and India. the practice of the Gurus they are importance of celebrating path”) covered now. their lives and Information on the BBC “akhand sometimes their deaths. website about the It is a requirement of the specification that they Students could create a also consider how four page leaflet entitled celebrating them would Sikh Gurpurbs” “The be different in the UK including pictures and compared with the information. One page Punjab. could focus on akhand It is useful to cover path and another on akhand path at this stage differences between UK too. and India.
Lesson Number Topic title Subject specific detail Guidance Learning activity Resources Lessons 9-10 Introduction to Sikh festivals (focusing on the Gurpurbs and including the practice of “akhand path”) The bigger festivals of Vaisakhi and Divali will be covered later. As the gurpurbs link to the Gurus they are covered now. It will be helpful if the students understand the importance of the Gurus as role-models for Sikhs today. Hence the importance of celebrating their lives and sometimes their deaths. It is a requirement of the specification that they also consider how celebrating them would be different in the UK compared with the Punjab. It is useful to cover akhand path at this stage too. Students create a four page leaflet entitled “The Sikh Gurpurbs” including pictures and information. One page could focus on akhand path and another on differences between UK and India. A list of the Gurpurbs can be found at: Information on the BBC website about the Students could create a four page leaflet entitled “The Sikh Gurpurbs” including pictures and information. One page could focus on akhand path and another on differences between UK and India.
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