Your visit will enhance topic work, consolidate your teaching at the end of a unit, and have many other benefits relating to children’s spirituality and an experience of a medieval building. For example, subject-based links for Key Stage 2 include:

Religious Education
AMV 2004
(Awareness, Mystery and Value) syllabus for Religious Education in Somerset, NE Somerset and Bath & NE Somerset
Units 2,3,4,6,7 & 8;
QCA Units
1F - What can we learn from visiting a church?
2D - Visiting a place of worship
3A - What do signs and symbols mean?
3C - What do we know about Jesus?
3D - What is the Bible and why is it important to Christians?
3E - What is faith and what difference does it make?
4C - Why is Easter important for Christians?
5C - Where did the Christian Bible come from?
5D - How do the beliefs of Christians influence their actions?
6A - Worship and Community
6C - Why are sacred texts important?
6E - What can we learn from Christian religious buildings?
6F- How do people express their faith through the arts?

QCA National Framework for Religious Education Draft 2004
“Religious Education asks about meaning and purpose in life from beginning to end. It gives space for individual reflection…”

Art & Design
QCA Units
2C Can buildings speak?
3C Can we change places? (Sculpture)
4B Take a seat
4C Journeys (Signs and Symbols)
5B Containers
6B What a performance (Costumes)
6C A sense of place
9 Visiting a site

Mathematics
NCMa3
4a Chronological order

English
NCEn1
1a; 1b; 1c; 1d; 1e;
2b; 2e;
6a; 8a; 8b; 9c.
En3 1a.

History
NC 1a
Chronological understanding
2b Knowledge and understanding of events, people & changes in the past.
4a Historical enquiry (from historic buildings and visits)
4b Ask and answer questions about the past.

PSHE
1b; 2e.

Geography
QCA Unit 11 Water
NC 1a Geographical enquiry