DAVID

KEY STAGE 1

NATIONAL

I CAN
STATEMENTS /

“I CAN” ATTAINMENT STATEMENT

STRAND

AT1 (B) PRACTICES AND WAYS OF LIFE

AT2 (C) VALUES AND COMMITMENTS

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AT1 (B) PRACTICES AND WAYS OF LIFE

LEVEL 1: Use the right names for things that are special for Christians
LEVEL 2: Talk about some of the things that are the same for different religious people /

AT2 (C) VALUES AND COMMITMENTS

LEVEL 1: Talk about what is important to me and to other people
LEVEL 2: Talk about what is important to me and to others with respect to their feelings.

I CAN STATEMENTS FOR THIS

SDBE UNIT

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COMMENT ON ANY SPECIFIC ASSESSMET ACTIVITY COMPLETED

/ LEVEL1: I can say one way that David kept close to God
LEVEL2: I can talk about what was important to David in his relationship with God
LEVEL3: I can describe David’s belief in God and the difference it made to his life compared to someone who doesn’t believe. /

LEVEL1: I can talk about things that matter to David and things that matter to me

LEVEL2: I can talk about how I might have felt if I were David

LEVEL3: I can say what things really mattered to David and talk about what things matter to me and how they affect what I do. to me
CLASS
ATTAINMENT
(Please attach work sample, photo, oral response sheet, as appropriate) /

NUMBERS OF PUPILS WORKING AT LEVELS (Some schools may wish to keep a class list tick sheet record over the year)

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COMMENT ON PUPILS ABOVE AND BELOW EXPECTED LEVEL

/ COMMENT FOR NEXT STEPS IN PUPILS’ LEARNING AND TEACHERS’ METHODS OF DELIVERY.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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ACTIVITIES

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RESOURCES

Lessons 1
AT1 / To know that David in the Bible was a shepherd boy, a musician & a poet / Talk about what a shepherd does & what qualities are needed – bravery, love of animals, knows sheep by name etc. David’s family lived in Bethlehem. (Refer to Jesus birth in Bethlehem). Read about David’s early life from the Beginner’s Bible. Make some simple references to the meaning of words in Psalm 23 & use percussion instruments to compose vv1-3 quiet music, v 4 fearful music, v 5 joyful music, v 6 calm, happy music. / Pictures of sheep, shepherds
Big Book: A Song of David, Abingdon Press ISBN 0-687-07065-1
Beginner’s Bible
Ladybird Bible Stories – David.
ISBN 0721495206
The Lord is My Shepherd by Kerston Hamilton (Chariot Books)
Song: The Lord is my shepherd Junior Praise No 244
Percussion instruments
Lesson 3
AT1
AT2 / To know how David was chosen by God to be King
To recognise it was the smallest and youngest that was chosen / Talk about what it feels like to be the youngest or smallest in your family or school. Introduce the idea that we are all special to God (link from FS unit What makes us Special)
Tell the story of the choosing of David as King and act it out. / 1 Samuel 16
Beginner’s Bible
Dressing up clothes, crook, toy sheep
Song: I’m Special Junior Praise No 106
Lesson 4
AT1 / To know how David was victorious over Goliath / Tell the story/show video.
Talk about it means to be strong and what makes someone strong.
Make outlines of David and Goliath showing their relative sizes and get pupils to compose thought bubbles for each character.
Discuss results and make a class list of things that David might have said about God after he had defeated Goliath. / 1 Samuel 17
Beginners Bible Video David & Goliath
1 Samuel 17: 34-37.
Lesson 5
AT1
AT2 / To know that David was close to God and draw a personal lesson from his life.
ASSESSMENT STATMENTS
LEVEL1: I can say one way that David kept close to God
LEVEL2: I can talk about what was important to David in his relationship with God
LEVEL3: I can describe David’s belief in God and the difference it made to his life compared to someone who doesn’t believe.

LEVEL1: I can talk about things that matter to David and things that matter to me

LEVEL2: I can talk about how I might have felt if I were David

LEVEL3: I can say what things really mattered to David and talk about what things matter to me and how they affect what I do. to me / Recall Psalm 23 and explain that David trusted God and prayed to God.
Read the list composed in the last lesson and make it into a prayer that David might have said to God, before meeting Goliath and how he would have praised God afterwards.
Ask pupils to think of a quality they admire about David and give them the choice of writing their own prayer to God asking for this quality in their life or writing a poem about it.
These prayers could be added to the class prayers used in class assembly/at the end of the school day. / Play quiet background music to create a calm, creative atmosphere in class

Draft revision SDBE units of work with I can statements 2006-7