A Look at Faiths
The teaching of the RE curriculum is focused on the teaching of specific substantive knowledge and personal knowledge through carefully sequenced disciplinary “ways of knowing”. This includes the meaningful beginnings of a scholarly approach which allows teachers to introduce challenging concepts confidently to the pupils including very young ones (Reception), enabling them to use human and social scientific (study of the community) methods in increasing complex way so that each stage of learning prepares them for the next stage (progression of learning and skills).
This involves undertaking sophisticated enquiries, utilising deepening questions and deploying even more complex critical thinking. This consistency of approach allows a new knowledge and skills to be built on what has been taught before, connecting a new knowledge with existing knowledge and working towards clearly defined goals.
Those Important to Us - EYFS
This summer, in RE, pupils in reception explored the concept of friendship. They identified people who are important to them and the list the made included friends. The pupils then went to explore what good friends bring to their lives. To celebrate this learning , pupils were asked to draw pictures of friends they enjoy playing with. This picture celebrates a c pupils’ representation of their friends and why they consider them very important.
Islam and Prayer - Year 1
In year 1, the pupils have been exploring the significance of prayers. To develop their knowledge of this practice, the pupils looked at the Muslims, observing their practices of 5 prayers a day. The focus then fell on the most important tool when Muslims pray- the prayer mat. The pupils discussed the role of the mat in enabling the user to be calm, take different postures and be in a specific mind set to communicate with God. This picture celebrates a pupil’s design of this unique tool – praying mat.
Christianity and Genealogy - Year 4
In year 4 the pupils have been looking at the synoptic gospels and its relevance to Christians. Using the enquiry approach, pupils delved into the stories that are inherent within the four gospels from a historical perspective, using their research skills to find family links between the four gospels and older stories in the bible and creating genealogies. This picture celebrates a pupils’ application of the disciplinary skills in RE, to researching and creating his own family genealogy.
What Constitutes a Good Life - Year 6
The subjective nature of what constitutes a good life formed part of the research conducted by year 6 pupils when they explored the core principles and practices in Islam. Drawing from their research, they identified, from their own lived-in experience what constitutes a good life.
