Religious Education
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Intent of the RE currciulum at Lakeside
Lakeside Primary is a very multi-cultural school. We celebrate this and actively encourage children to share their experiences of their religions. Religious Education encourages pupils to learn from different religions, beliefs, values and traditions while exploring their own beliefs. It challenges pupils to reflect on, consider, analyse, interpret and evaluate issues of truth, beliefs, faith and ethics and to communicate their responses. Our Religious Education curriculum aims to give children an engaging introduction to learning about the 5 major religions. These religions are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism and Judaism.
Our intent is for our children to ...
- be provided with the knowledge and understanding of Christianity and other principal religious faiths, traditions and beliefs represented in Great Britain and the wider world
- develop a positive attitude towards people who hold religious beliefs different from their own
- be respectful of each other and show a tolerance for diversity.
- be able to disagree respectfully, understanding that others have a different viewpoint (links to PSHE)
- develop an understanding of the ways in which beliefs influence people's behaviour, practices and outlook.
- learn to ask thoughtful and respectful questions.
- be prepared for life in modern Britain by promoting Key British Values including democracy, Rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs (British Values are mapped throughout the scheme of work)
Implementation of the RE curriculum at Lakeside.
RE across the whole school.
As a school we celebrate Harvest, Christmas and Easter together. The children are given opportunity to visit places of worship, and also have Father Stokoe and Linda Gardiner from local churches to come in and deliver assemblies. Linda Gardiner and her team from the Salvation Army also deliver Christmas and Easter Journey sessions for children to deepen their understanding of these stories.
RE in the Early Years
In the Early Years Foundation Stage, activities are planned in relation to the “Understanding the World” area of the foundation stage curriculum. Children’s progress and achievements are assessed against the Early Learning Goals at the end of reception. To see how their knowledge progresses through the Early years please click here. Children in Foundation Stage are encouraged talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of their family members. They know that other children don't always enjoy the same things, and are sensitive to this. They are encouraged to discuss similarities and differences between themselves and others, and among families, communities and traditions. Children are immersed in multi-cultural stories such as Rama and Sita, the Easter Story and the Christmas Story. There are multi-cultural clothes in the home corner for children to explore in free play. Children are encouraged to discuss their own faith and understand that it might not be the same as others.
RE in years 1-6
In order to deliver our RE curriculum we follow the Discovery RE scheme of work for RE. This is an enquiry approach that makes RE exciting and engaging. Each year group will have a key question to explore each half term and the overview of these can be found here. Through the RE curriculum we encourage children to: feedback opinions, generate own questions, explain their own point of view, justify/Give reasons, compromise, disagree respectfully (understanding that others have a different point of view) and remember that their own idea is important, whether it is the same as others or not
Examples of work in R.E
Year 1 and 2
Year 3 and 4
Year 5 and 6
