Topic Three - Loving- Advent

Loving

 

EYFS - Birthday

• What people do during Advent.
• Advent is a time for getting ready for Christmas.
• Means of preparing Advent Calendar/Advent Wreath.
• Advent a special season of longing and waiting for Jesus birth at Christmas.
• The Crib.
• The Nativity Story.
• The Shepherds.
• The Wise Men.
• The Hail Mary.

Year 1 - Waiting:

• Some aspects of the liturgical season of Advent: a time of waiting to celebrate Jesus’ coming at Christmas.
• Advent wreath and its symbolism.
• The Annunciation.
• The Visitation.
• The Nativity.
• The beginning of an understanding of the Incarnation.

Year 2 - Preparations:

• Advent four weeks of preparation for the celebration of Jesus at Christmas.
• Understanding of the liturgical year.
• Isaiah description of the one who is to come.
• The Annunciation.
• The Visitation.
• The Nativity.
• Jesus comes to us as God’s gift because he loves us.
• Jesus light for the world.
• The opening prayer at the Night Mass.

Year 3 - Visitors:

• Advent is a time of preparation for the coming of Jesus at Christmas.
• The meaning of the Jesse tree.
• Isaiah foretells the coming o the Messiah.
• The joys and demands of being a Christian.
• The stories of the Annunciation and the Visitation.
• The story of the birth of Jesus and the visit of the Shepherds (Luke).
• The visit of the Wise Men (Matthew).
• An understanding that Jesus came to earth for the good of all.

Year 4 - Gift:

• The liturgical season of Advent.
• Advent is focused on the “coming” of Jesus as Messiah.
• The messiah is the one promised by God who would show God’s love and bring peace.
• Isaiah prophecy about coming of the Messiah.
• Further understanding of the Incarnation.
• That Jesus will come again at the end of the world as he promised.
• Gaudete Sunday.
• The visit of the Wise Men.

Year 5 - Hope:

• The liturgical season of Advent.
• The theological virtue of hope.
• Isaiah and Jeremiah’s prophecies about the coming of the Messiah.
• Waiting in hope for the coming of Jesus at Christmas.
• Waiting in hope for the second coming of Christ at the end of time.
• Further understanding of the Incarnation.
• Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary.

Year 6 - Expectations:

• The liturgical season of Advent.
• Isaiah’s expectation of the Messiah.
• The Word in John’s Gospel.
• The Annunciation.
• The Incarnation.
• The Angelus.
• John the Baptist announces the coming of the Messiah.
• The second coming of Jesus Christ.