welcome to rat knaphill, we base our r.e lessons around the agreed syllabus for religious education...
TRANSCRIPT
1
Welcome to R.E
2
Welcome to Religious Education at Knaphill Junior
School!
This portfolio will provide you with an insight into the excellent R.E teaching and
learning that take place here at Knaphill.
Below is a short overview of what is included in this document.
Page Number Title Page
1 Front Cover
2 Contents Page
3 Whole School Overview
4 British Values
5-7 R.E in Year 3
8-11 R.E in Year 4
12-15 R.E in Year 5
16-18 R.E in Year 6
19 Harvest Festival
20 Remembrance Day
21 Diwali Festival
22 Christmas Play and Carol Concert
3
Whole School Overview
At Knaphill, we base our R.E lessons around the Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education in
Surrey Schools. The children have the opportunity to learn about the main religious
throughout their time at Knaphill.
In R.E there are two attainment targets (AT1 and AT2) that must be covered in our R.E
lesson. Below is an outline of each attainment target.
AT1: Learning about Religions
This attainment target refers to how pupils develop their knowledge, skills and understanding
with reference to: beliefs, teachings and sources; practices and ways of life; forms of
expression.
AT2: Learning from Religion
This attainment target refers to how pupils, in the light of their learning about religion,
express their responses and insights with regard to questions and issues about: identity and
belonging; meaning, purpose and truth; values and commitments.
4
British Values
Although the teachers ensure that the British Values are covered in all lessons
across the curriculum, R.E is one of the most important lessons to promote
‘Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs’. It is important that the
children learn about different faiths and cultures from around the world. The
teachers at Knaphill work hard to ensure that the children enjoy learning about
these different faiths and cultures. Where appropriate, the children are also given
the opportunity to visit different places of worship and have people from different
faiths or with different beliefs visit and talk to them. We also promote diversity by
celebrating different celebrations from faiths around the world. This has proved
very successful to the children’s learning, promoting respect for others – one of
our school values.
5
Year 3
6
Autumn Term 1 – Who is Jesus?
In this unit, the children learn that Jesus lives at the time of the Roman Empire and
that there is written historical evidence of his life. The children also discover that
Jesus and his disciples were Jewish and the key events and people in his Jesus’
life.
Autumn Term 2 – How do Christians celebrate milestones in
their lives? Why are presents given at Christmas?
In the second half term, the children focus on
different milestones that Christians celebrate,
including baptisms. The children had the
opportunity to participate in a Baptism conducted
by Reverend Grew at the Holy Trinity Church.
Autumn Term 2 – Why are presents given at Christmas?
As Christmas gets closer, the children discover how Christians believe that Jesus
was a gift from God and how this is the reason behind giving presents at
Christmas time.
Spring Term 1 – What does it mean to be a Hindu?
7
Spring Term 2 – What can we learn from the Hindu use of
images?
In the Spring Term, the children begin to explore the Hindu religion and learn
about the origins of Hinduism and what they believe about God.
Summer Term 1 – What is the Buddhist way of life?
The image above shows the Year 3 children visiting a Buddhist temple, where they
learnt about the Buddhist beliefs and meditation. The children were able to take
this opportunity to ask the monk questions that they have as well as share the
things they learnt about Buddha, gaining enlightenment through meditation and
the four noble truths.
Summer Term 2 – What is faith and what difference does it
make to our local communities?
8
Year 4
9
Autumn Term 1 – Why do Christians make promises in
marriage?
This image shows the Year 4 children
visiting the Holy Trinity Church and
participating in a wedding conducted
by Reverend Grew. This wedding
took place after the children learnt
about the symbolism and meaning of
marriage to Christians and how
marriage plays an important role in
society.
Autumn Term 2 – How can artists help us to understand
Christmas?
In this unit, the children learn why artists
throughout history and around the world
have attempted to depict events
surrounding the birth of Jesus. They also
explore how these artists have used
symbols to express the mysterious events
of the nativity and to express deep
Christian beliefs and the person of Jesus.
10
Spring Term 1 – Why is prayer important to Christians?
At the start of the Spring Term, Year 4 discover that Christians see prayer as
important in building a relationship with God, exploring examples of Jesus prayer
to God in the bible and what this may represent. The children also look at the
different ways Christians pray to God, hoping for an answer.
Spring Term 2 – How do Christians prepare for Easter?
The Year 4 children were lucky enough to receive a visit from Reverend Grew.
Reverend Grew spoke to the children about how Christians prepare for Easter and
how. The children then had the opportunity to share what they had learnt with
Reverend Grew and ask any important they had about this important celebration in
the Christian calendar.
Summer Term 1 – Who do Muslims believe?
At the start of the Summer Term, the children learn about Islam and what Muslims
believe. The children discover the following areas of the Muslim faith:
Allah
Muhammad and the Prophets
The significance of the Qur’an
Five Pillars of Islam
Prayer and the Mosque
Life after death
11
The children also had the opportunity to visit the local Mosque – the Islamic place
of worship.
Here are some examples of the work the children produced during this unit.
Summer Term 2 – Living together in one World.
An extremely important unit, the children learn how we are all member of different
communities. The children also learn that there are situations of social and
economic unfairness in the world and understanding someone else’s point of view
can help make us better global citizens.
12
Year 5
13
Autumn Term 1 – How did it all begin?
The children in Year 5 had a really exciting topic in R.E which linked to their Space
Quest topic. They learnt about the beliefs of different faiths of how the world
began. The children learnt about the Christian Creation story and created their
own rap or storyboard to retell it in their own words. They then explored the
different creation stories from around the world and presented them to the rest of
the class.
14
Autumn Term 2 – Who is the Holy Spirit?
In the second half of the Autumn Term, the children
explored the Hindu and Chinese Creation story in
more detail. After this unit, the children learnt about
the Holy Spirit and how it is represented in a range of
different ways in the Bible. They explored the Story of
Pentecost and wrote diary entries from the point of
view of one of Jesus’ disciples – an opportunity to
show off their writing skills too!
Spring Term 1: Who are the Jews?
The children learnt about Judaism and what they believe. They looked at Jewish
symbols and artefacts as well as their important festivals. The children also
compared the Jewish and Christian faith with each other. The children will also
have the opportunity to visit a Synagogue – the Jewish place of worship.
15
Spring Term 2 – What is Maundy Thursday about? How do we
know what happened at Easter?
During the lead up to Easter, the
children deepened their knowledge from
Year 4 about the Easter Story by
looking into the meaning of it in more
detail. We were lucky enough to get a
visit from Reverend Grew, who
answered all of our questions about the
Easter Story and what happened.
Summer Term 1 – How is faith expressed through worship?
Summer Term 2 – What does it mean
to be a Sikh?
The children learnt about Sikhism and what Sikhs
believe. They explored the important symbols of
the Sikh community (the 5K’s) and why they are so
important to Sikhs. It was really interesting for the
children to discover how the Sikh religion began.
The children then went on to explore the Golden
Temple – a Sikh place of worship. They imagined
what it would look like and created their own trip
advisor review about their experiences there.
16
Year 6
17
Autumn Term 1 – What do Christians believe God is like? The children learn that Christians believe that God is a Trinity – Father, Son and
Holy Spirit. The children also learn that God has many titles which reflect aspects
of his character (holy, loving, just and forgiving).
Autumn Term 2 – How did Jesus change lives? What do
Christians believe about the birth of Jesus?
In this unit, the children learn about Jesus and how Christians believe that he
showed he was God’s son by performing miracles like the feeding of the five
thousand and the raising of Lazarus. The children then move on to learning about
what Christians believe about the birth of Jesus and its significance about the Birth
of Jesus.
Spring Term 1 – How do people express their faith through
Art?
18
Spring Term 2 – What do we do when someone dies? Did
Jesus have to die?
In the Spring Term, the Year 6 children
look at what happens when someone
dies. It is a sensitive but important unit
to cover as it explains to children that
death is a part of the human life cycle
and to also learn that someone people
believe that there is life after death. It
also gives the children the opportunity
to discuss feelings around losing a
loved one and think of practical ways to remember someone after they have died.
Summer Term 1 – The Bible. What’s it all about?
In the Summer Term, the children learn
that the Bible is an important book for
Christians and many other people across
the World. They explore the history of the
Bible and learn about the Old and New
Testament and who they were written by.
Summer Term 2 – What do your clothes say about you?
19
Harvest Festival
Early in the Autumn Term, we celebrated Harvest. As a whole school we decided
to take the opportunity to help those in need in our local community. The children
were invited to bring in a selection of food which could be distributed to the Woking
Food Bank, who were extremely grateful.
Parents and governors were invited into school for the Harvest assembly where a
group of children performed a short drama presentation about the meaning of
Harvest and the whole school sang Harvest songs. The actors and the Year 6
children then went to the Vyne in Knaphill to perform to some local residents
.
20
Remembrance Day
On behalf of the churches from Knaphill, Roger Furnell organised a service for
Remembrance Day which took place at the site of the old library. As well as local
residents, the service was attended by Jonathan Lord MP, local councillors and
representatives from the Army and British Legion.
It was a very special service in the village. Adam Joll, Lilly Burke, Freddy Hopkins
and Benjamin Avery all read out their prayers for peace which they had written in
class. It was a moving service and the children spoke beautifully and confidently.
21
Diwali Festival
In November, Knaphill Junior School was asked to participate in the Diwali Lantern
Parade and Celebration Event in Woking Town Centre. Ten children from across
the year groups designed some bright, colourful lanterns using handcrafted
structures made from willow rods. On Thursday 12th November, they participated
in a procession which was led around Woking Town Centre by a traditional
Chenda Melam group who were playing Indian drums and percussion. All of the
children who attended the event had a fantastic evening and especially enjoyed
the opportunity to watch Bharatanatyam and Bollywood dancers take to the stage
as well as being able to soak up the Bangra music and lively atmosphere.
22
Christmas Play and Carol Concert
Year 3 and 4
The children from across Years 3 and 4 participated in rehearsals for this year’s
Christmas production entitled, ‘What Christmas Means to Me.’ Throughout the
play, the children took a witty and thoughtful look at the characters and events that
shape our experiences of the festive season. They also considered how Christmas
came to be and began to discover that all the celebrations and traditions actually
can mean very little, unless this special time of year is shared with our nearest and
dearest.
Year 5 and 6
Whilst looking at the story of Christmas, the children sang a range of carols
beautifully to celebrate this special event and what it really means to Christians.
Every child who took part,
from the readers and actors, to
the choir, soloists and carol
singers, gave 100% and put
on a brilliant performance at
the Holy Trinity Church.
23