164 pages
A4 landscape
ISBN-10: 0 948080 87 6
ISBN-13: 978 0 948080 87 6

Homing In is a new approach to religious education in the primary years for teachers to enrich children's experience in 'pretend areas', or 'home corners' and give them opportunities to explore ways that families express their religious faith.

The 'Homing In' approach integrates several National Curriculum subjects and enables children to entertain imaginatively into a coherent way of life, and appreciate the significance of a faith's most cherished objects.

The objects, modelled on genuine religious artefacts, are a flexible resource for extending and enlivening topic work. All can be made by adults with basic craft skills, and the children can make many themselves.

The approach stimulates achievement of literacy and awareness of linguistic diversity. It supports a wide range of language learning in the negotiation of home situations and the communication of deep levels of meaning.

Trialled over several years, Homing In has been shaped by the experiences of teachers and children in many areas.
Angela Wood has worked as a teacher, lecturer, adviser and inspector. She is co-author of Inside Stories also published by Trentham Books.