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Subject Overview Religious Education

Mission Statement

The teaching of Religious Education aims to develop pupils’ knowledge, understanding and awareness of Christianity as the predominant religion in Great Britain whilst also introducing children to other beliefs and customs.

Content

Early Years
Special Times  - Harvest, Divali and Christmas
Special Things - Special Festivals
Our World - Looking after our world and stories about people and animals

Year 1 – Christianity and Judaism

Special Times - festivals of Christmas and Chanukak
Special People - the life and teaching of Jesus and Moses
Beginnings - Christian Baptism

Year 2 - Christianity and Judaism

Our World - Festivals of Harvest, Succoth and Thanksgiving
Special Places - Church and Synagogue
Christians at Work - Work of Open Door Organisation

 

 

Year 3 - Christianity
Leaders - The life and Teachings of Jesus
Christian Community - key features of worship
Rules - origins of religious rules

Year 4 - Christianity and Islam

Islamic Community - visit to a Mosque
Fast and Festivals - Lent and Easter and Ramadan and Eid
Prayer - How Muslims pray

Year 5 - Judaism

Visit to  Synagogue, Family life and Festival of Passover
Holy Books- The Torah and the Bible

Year 6 - Islam

Muhammad - his life and teachings
Holy Book - The Qu’ran
Light and Dark - reflect upon different types of behaviour found in the world.

Organisation

At Pengam, we use religious artefacts to enrich the learning environment. Pupils also visit places of worship in order to gain a greater insight into the different faith communities.

Religious Education is taught through topic work in EY. It is taught for one hour per week at KS1 and KS 2. It is organised in such a way that EY covers primarily Christianity, Judaism and Islam. KS1 covers Christianity and Judaism and KS2 covers Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Special Events/Visits

Open Door Organisation visits school to share their work on various projects in Uganda
Visits to St. David’s Church, the Synagogue and the Islamic Centre in Cardiff .

Extra-Curricular Activities

None at present