Key Stage 1 – Religious Education

 

Knowledge, skills and understanding

 

AT1 – Learning about religion and belief

Pupils should be taught to:

• Explore a range of religious stories and sacred writings and talk about their meaning.

 

• Name and explore a range of celebrations, worship and rituals in religion noting the similarities where appropriate.

 

• Identify the importance, for some people, of belonging to a religion and recognise the difference this makes to their lives.

 

• Explore how religious beliefs and ideas can be expressed through the arts and communicate their responses.

 

• Identify and suggest meanings for religious symbols and begin to use a range of religious terms and ideas.

 

Learning from Religion and Belief (AT2)

Pupils should be taught to:

 

• Reflect on and consider religious and spiritual feelings, experiences and concepts such as worship, wonder, praise, thanks, concern, joy and sadness.

 

• Ask and respond imaginatively to puzzling questions, communicating their ideas.

 

• Identify what matters to them and others including those with religious commitments, and communicate their responses.

 

• Reflect on how spiritual and moral values relate to their own behaviour.

 

• Recognise that religious teachings and ideas make a difference to individuals, families and the local community.

 

Key Stage 2 – Religious Education

Knowledge, skills and understanding

AT1 – Learning about religion and belief

 

• Describe the key aspects of religions, especially people, stories and traditions that influence beliefs and values.

 

• Describe the variety of practices and ways of life in religions and understand how these stem from, and are closely connected to beliefs and teachings.

 

• Identify and begin to describe the similarities and the differences between religions.

 

• Investigate the significance of religion in the local, national and global communities.

 

• Consider the meaning of a range of forms of religious expression, understand why they are important in religion and note links between them.

 

• Describe and understand religious and other responses to ultimate and ethical questions.

 

• Use specialist vocabulary in communicating their knowledge and understanding.

 

• Use and interpret information about religions from a range of sources.

 

Learning from Religion and Belief (AT2)

 

Pupils should be taught to:

 

• Reflect on what it means to belong to a faith community, communicating their own and others’ responses.

 

• Respond to the challenges of commitment both in their own lives and within religious traditions, recognising how commitment to a religion is shown in a variety of ways.

 

• Discuss their own and others’ views of religious truth and belief, expressing their own ideas.

 

• Reflect on right and wrong in their own and others’ responses to them.

 

• Reflect on sources of inspiration in their own and others’ lives.