Moston Lane Community Primary School

Religious Education

Hello, I am Miss Howes and I am the R.E coordinator at Moston Lane Community Primary School. What I enjoy most about teaching R.E. is learning and understanding different religions and the discussions that come from this. I believe R.E. helps children to gain a better understanding of other people's cultures and teaches them how to treat others with respect.

Intent

At Moston Lane Primary School, the purpose of RE is captured in the main principle of the Manchester Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education 2016- 2021. The principle aim of RE is to engage pupils in systematic enquiry, so that they can develop the understanding and skills needed to appreciate and appraise varied responses to these questions, as well as develop responses of their own. The threefold aim of the R.E Manchester Agreed Syllabus elaborates the principle aim. The curriculum for RE aims to ensure that all pupils:

Know about and understand a range of religions and worldviews
Express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religions and worldviews
Gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with religions and worldviews

Implementation

At Moston Lane Community Primary School, these skills are embedded within the R.E curriculum and are developed over time. We are committed to ensuring that children are able to recognise the importance of religions and worldviews and that they are able to use their knowledge confidently to express their own ideas and opinions in lots of religious topics and enquiry-based questions. We want our children at Moston Lane to enjoy R.E, to be creative and express themselves with spiritual and religious ideas.

Impact

The skills taught across R.E at Moston Lane prepares children for life, to develop as global citizens, to learn different ways of life and develop empathy and understanding of different religions around the world.

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Please click the link below to view the R.E policy:

RE Policy

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Below is the ‘Curriculum Map’ and 'Progression of Skills & Knowledge, which outlines the activities and skills that will be taught throughout the year:

R.E Curriculum Overview

Progression of Skills & Knowledge

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Here you can find the 'Age Related Expectations' for each year group, which outlines what skills a child should be able to do at the end of each year. Children will be assessed against these expectations to see what they have achieved, and what they need to work on next.

Please follow the links to find out more about the expectations for your child:

Nursery

Reception

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

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Knowledge Organisers

Please find the 'Knowledge Organiser' for your child's year group and topic below. They contain key words and information that the children will be learning throughout their topic this term.

Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4	Year 5	Year 6
Who are Muslims and what do they believe?	What can we learn from sacred books?	What do different people believe about God?	Why is the Bible important to Christians today?	What would Jesus do?	What do religions say to us when life gets hard?

What makes some places sacred?	How and why do people celebrate special and sacred times?	Why are festivals important to religious communities?	Why do some people think that life is a journey?	If God is everywhere, why do people go to a place of worship?	Is it better to express your religion in arts or in charity?

How should we care for others and the world?	What does it mean to belong to a faith community?	What does it mean to be a Christian in Britain today?	What does it mean to be a Hindu in Britain today?	What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today?	What matters most to Christians and Humanists?

RE around our school

Religious Celebration Poems 2022

Year 3 have studied Easter, Ramadan and Holi as part of their R.E. lessons. They focused on one festival and thought about the important messages and which events took place and used this to write an acrostic poem.

Diwali 2021

Key Stage Two

Year 3 also created some Rangoli tiles using oil pastels.

Diwali 2021

Key Stage One and EYFS

The children created their own Rangoli tiles in a variety of different ways.

Diwali 2020

To celebrate Diwali this year, the whole school participated in a range of different arts and crafts during our ‘Diwali afternoon’. Each year group was given a special art or craft to help children understand how people celebrate Diwali across the world. The children made Rangoli tile decorations, clay Diya and sweet treats! Here are some examples of their amazing creations…

Harvest Celebration 2020

During October, the whole school celebrated Harvest festival by creating Harvest acrostic poems. We spent time understanding how lucky we are to have the food we eat in this country and learnt about all the different types of food grown here in the UK and across the world. We then used these ideas to create our poetry.

Harvest Celebration 2019

Over the last few weeks, the whole school have been working hard for a team competition to fill up their Harvest box! Each team brought their box into the hall for our assembly and the amount of food we collected for local food banks was fantastic! Miss Rowland led an assembly all about Harvest, comparing a typical day of food in UK and another in Sudan, it made us think very hard about how lucky we are. We also looked at what type of foods are grown here in the UK. Thanks again to everyone who brought something in for our collection, it was our best one yet!

Year 2's trip to St John's Church in Moston

Year 6 'Torn Away' Project

Year 6 had an exciting afternoon with Caroline from the Holocaust Day Trust, who came in to do some History, RE and Art activities based on the Holocaust. This tied in really well for Year 6 as they had been focusing on World War 2. They learnt about the Holocaust from the perspective of the children in the war and being “torn away” from home. This “Torn Away” project really engaged the children through group work with RE and History activities, as well as going onto creating a piece of artwork. This art was then exhibited at Manchester Library at a special art event. The Lord Mayor, High Sheriff and a Holocaust survivor attended this event and looked at our artwork along with some from other schools too.

Places of worship

This half term, children in Year 1 have looked at different religions and their places of worship. To further their learning, the children got to look at different religious artefacts. This helped them to develop an understanding of what is used in different places of worship and what some of the signs and symbols of religions mean too.