At Hamstel Junior School, the teaching of RE encourages our children to ask big questions about the world around them and their place in it. We aim to prepare our children to be part of a diverse community and behave with respect and understanding.

RE plays an important role in the spiritual, moral, and cultural development of our children. While tolerance and respect for others are at the heart of our RE curriculum, we also want our children to develop their own identity and sense of belonging through the beliefs they hold.

With our enquiry-based approach, children are taught how to question and form their own beliefs. Through exploring a broad curriculum that acknowledges a range of religious and non-religious world views, children will develop the skills necessary to articulate their beliefs and values and understand why these are important in their own and other people’s lives.

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Year 3

 

In Year 3 children will learn:

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• to develop religious and moral vocabulary to describe key features​

• to know the function of aspects within religious practices

• to begin to identify impact of religious teachings

• to recognise influences religion has on lives

• to identify ultimate unanswerable questions and behaviour

• to recognise and ask questions about religious and moral values

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Year 4

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In Year 4 children will learn:

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• to develop religious and moral vocabulary to describe key features

• about the function of aspects within religious practises within and between religions

• to begin to identify impact of religious teaching including interpretation

• to recognise influences religion has on lives, cultures and communities

• to identify ultimate unanswerable questions and behaviour and start to develop own answers

• to recognise and ask questions about religious and moral values and how they can influence behaviour

 

Year 5

 

In Year 5 children will learn:

 

• to identify and develop key features of religions using appropriate vocabulary

• to identifty and describe similarities and differences between religions

• to describe meaning of symbols and actions and show that these may be interpreted in different ways

• to ask questions of identity and belonging, suggest own answers

• to raise questions and suggest answers to ultimate questions

• to ask questions about right and wrong suggesting moral and religious teaching

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Year 6

 

In Year 6 children will learn:

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• to develop vocabulary to explore and suggest reasons for similarities and differences in between different religions

• to explain and explore how beliefs and ideas lead to diverse practise in between religions

• to explain reasons for diverse forms of expression

• to explore and suggest reasons for own and other's views including ideas about human identity and experience

• to explain own philosophical, moral and religious responses to question and explore views of others

• to explain with reasons views about moral and ethical issues and explain their own views and those of others