Gods Loving Plan Information for Parents 1 Gods

God’s Loving Plan Information for Parents 1

God’s Loving Plan: • provides guidance on how children can be helped to develop healthy and respectful attitudes to their bodies and to relationships with families and friends • connects children’s learning about who they are and how they relate to others, to their learning about God and their relationship in faith. • helps children to understand how love can be at the heart of their lives and what the Church’s vision is of Marriage as the ultimate expression of love between man and woman. • Information for Parents 2

4 Themes Religious Education is linked with aspects of Health & Wellbeing from P 1 -P 7. Learning organised under 4 themes: God delights in me God gives me life God’s loving plan guides my choices God calls me to love Information for Parents 3

Our Approach • A Loving plan – God loves us; our families love us; we love others – We are called by God to share love with others • Building children’s confidence – encouraging healthy attitudes to our bodies – using appropriate words for parts of the body • Careful and gradual – appropriate to age and stage of development Information for Parents 4

• GOD’S LOVING PLAN on Vimeo • https: //vimeo. com/118341955 Information for Parents 5

Cf. E Levels • Early Level: Nursery, P 1 • First Level: P 2, P 3, P 4 • Second Level: P 5, P 6, P 7 Information for Parents 6

What will children learn? Early �First �Second levels • how to take care of their bodies Information for Parents 7

What will children learn? Early �First �Second levels • their capacity to love family & friends Information for Parents 8

What will children learn? First �Second levels • how their bodies are changing at different rates Information for Parents 9

What will children learn? Second level • how, as adults, they may choose to marry • how we celebrate the Sacrament of Matrimony Information for Parents 10

What will children learn? Second levels • how they may become a parent Information for Parents 11

What will children learn? Second level – Primary 7 • how a child is conceived and grows in womb. Information for Parents 12

What Do We Want To Achieve? • Primary 5 will develop their understanding of loving relationships , rights and respect (for themselves and for others). • Primary 6 will have a greater understanding of how the human body changes physically and emotionally through puberty. They will learn the biological names for body parts. • Primary 7 will have a greater understanding of conception within a loving and marital relationship. Information for Parents 13

Primary 5 Pupils Will: • Read the stories of creation, reflecting on the fact that God saw his creation as being good. • Be encouraged to see the beauty of God’s creation in themselves and will begin to recognise that their growing bodies are part of God’s plan for them. • Reflect on their own gifts and talents and how they can be used for the common good. Information for Parents 14

Primary 5 Pupils Will: • Learn of the importance of showing respect for the rights of others in their daily lives. • Discuss the importance of forgiveness and reconciliation in order to restore their relationship with God and others. Information for Parents 15

Primary 6 Children Will: • Deepen their understanding of the stories of creation, exploring the unique relationship between God and man. • Learn that God has a plan for them and that the physical, emotional and spiritual changes that they experience as they approach adolescence are part of this plan. • Explore the physical and emotional changes which girls and boys begin to experience during puberty. Information for Parents 16

Primary 6 Children Will: • Begin to recognise that they are strengthened by the Holy Spirit and the sacramental life of the Church in their decision making. • Begin to recognise that, in the Beatitudes, Jesus offers them a guide for Christian living, growth and fulfilment. Information for Parents 17

Primary 6 – Part 1: • Showing respect to yourself and others • Puberty - physical and emotional changes • Milestones as we grow from babies to toddlers to teens to adults • Labelling internal organs Information for Parents 18

Primary 6 - Part 2: • Male and female: changes our bodies go through • How puberty is part of Gods Loving Plan to help us grow into adults • The names of the different parts of male and female bodies which are part of these changes Information for Parents 19

Primary 6 - Part 3 • Emotional changes, feelings and behaviours Information for Parents 20

Primary 7 Children Will: • Investigate the complimentary nature of science and Scripture as they deepen their understanding of God’s creation. • Reflect on the Sacrament of Matrimony and the commitment which a husband wife make to one another in the sacrament. • Learn that sexual intercourse, in the context of marriage, is a sign of God’s love which can lead to new life. Information for Parents 21

• Learn about the development of the child in the womb • Consider God’s precious gift of life from conception to natural death and the need to cherish and respect it • By reflecting on Jesus’ Temptations in the desert (Luke 4: 1 -13) the pupils will learn that, through prayer and the sacraments, God has given them the ability to resist temptation Information for Parents 22

Primary 7: Part 1 • What it means to love • The sacrament of matrimony • How the love of a married couple is part of God’s Loving Plan • How human life begins and how a baby is born • Making love with their bodies and so become “one flesh” Information for Parents 23

• God creates new life through their action of “making love. ” • Sexual intercourse - a joyful, pleasurable expression of love which may lead to the conception of a new life (The physical act of sex) • Sperm fertilises the egg • The baby in the womb Information for Parents 24

How can parents help? • be positive about your child growing up • equip them with correct language when talking about their body parts • assure them that physical changes in puberty are natural • help them to adapt to changing emotions • how them to know that they are loved for themselves and not for how they look Information for Parents 25

• Families come in all shapes and sizes today • Teachers do not ‘judge’ any family situation • Marriage will be presented as the ideal setting for family life • Children will learn how the Sacrament of Matrimony celebrates the loving and faithful commitment of a man and woman Information for Parents 26

• God’s Loving Plan Vocabulary Guide: vocabulary_guide_glp_2016. pdf (rercglasgow. org) Information for Parents 27

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