The Importance of Music in Different Religions
嚜燜he Importance of
Music in Different
Religions
By Ruth Parrott
July 2009
Silverdale Community Primary School,
Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Key Words
Spirituality
Greetings
Calls to Worship
Blessings
Dance in Hindu Worship
Celebrations
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Contents
Introduction
The Teaching of RE in Staffordshire Primary Schools
Music and Spirituality
Assembly 每 &Coping with Fear*
Suggestions for Listening and Response
Responses to Music and Spirituality
Worksheet 每 &Listening to Music* KS2
Worksheet 每 &Listening to Music* KS1
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Sikhism
Hinduism
Welcomes, Greetings and Calls to Prayer/Worship
Lesson Plan 每 &Bell Ringing*
Judaism 每 &The Shofar
Islam 每 &The Adhan*
Lesson Plan 每 &The Islamic Call to Prayer*
Celebrations
Lesson Plan 每 Hindu Dance &Prahlad and the Demon*
Lesson Plan 每 Hindu Dance &Rama and Sita* (Diwali)
Song: &At Harvest Time*
Song: &Lights of Christmas*
Blessings
Blessings from different religions
Lesson Plan 每 &Blessings*
Conclusion
Song: &The Silverdale Miners*
Song: &The Window Song*
Acknowledgements, Bibliography
Websites
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Introduction
I teach a Y3 class at Silverdale Community Primary School, and am also
the RE, Music and Art Co-ordinator. The school is situated in the exmining village of Silverdale in the borough of Newcastle- under-Lyme on
the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent and is recognised as a deprived area. The
school is a one class entry school with a Nursery, wrap-around care and a
breakfast and after school club. There are approximately 200 children in
the school: 95% of pupils are white and 5% are a variety of mixed ethnic
minorities.
The children have little experience of faiths other than Christianity and in
the village there are several Christian places of worship: an Anglican, a
Catholic, a Pentecostal and a Methodist Church and the school has built
good relationships with the protestant churches and their incumbents. The
vicar from St. Luke*s Church is the Chair of Governors and involves the
school in church projects.
As RE co-ordinator, I wanted to expand the children*s knowledge and
understanding of people from different faiths. In September 2007, a
stained glass window, in memory of the late organist, Mr. Harrison, was
commissioned for St. Luke*s Parish Church, in Silverdale. The artistic
responses of the children to music were incorporated in the window. I
wrote a song for the children to sing at the service of dedication so the
experience for the children became cross-curricular but at the same time,
a spiritual experience. I became interested in how other faiths use music
in their worship and how this knowledge could be used in the classroom
to help the children to discover similarities between the faiths thus
encouraging empathy and at the same time, creativity.
There are strong connections that exist between religion and music and
these can be used to help pupils engage with religious themes. I have used
my Farmington Fellowship to explore the links between religion and
music to suggest practical ways in which music can be used in RE to
promote quality learning experiences for the children which will provoke
thought, sustain interest and enjoyment as well as providing them with
opportunities to express their own reflections and responses in a variety
of ways. Through musical encounters, pupils can experience learning
about a religion and the way music is used in that tradition. They can also
learn how to express themselves and apply what they have learnt to their
own lives. The children will not be asked to worship in a faith which is
not their own, but to gain understanding through the music of other faiths.
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I decided to look at:
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Music and Spirituality
Music of different faiths (It*s importance or otherwise)
Welcomes
Celebrations
Blessings
I found that most of them were interlinked. My aim was to take music
from other faiths and use it in lessons as a starting point for children to
compose their own music, write welcomes and blessings for one another
or for celebrations and rites of passage but at the same time giving them
space for thinking and self-expression as I introduced listening to music
and spirituality.
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