Religious Education - Teaching & Learning
Curriculum Intent
At Dundonald Primary School we deliver a high-quality RE education, helping children to explore and learn about different faiths and beliefs. Pupils understand, accept, respect and celebrate diversity. The RE curriculum teaches mutual respect and tolerance in a multi-faith, multicultural classroom.
Pupils are encouraged to ask questions about the world and to reflect on their own beliefs, values and experiences. As a UNICEF Rights Respecting School we promore respect, inclusion and open-mindedness towards others with different faiths, values and practices. Teaching British values ensures that children are aware of their rights and responsibilities as UK citizens. Our curriculum is designed to encourage creativity, imagination, enquiry, debate, discussion and independence.
Curriculum Implementation
Pupils will have the opportunity to:
- access quality artefacts, media resources and sacred texts to help visualise practices and understand concepts
- learn appropriate and progressive vocabulary so that they are able to consider and express their personal views and beliefs articulately and respectfully.
- use imaginatuve play or drama to express feelings and ideas
- respond to images, games, stories, art, music and dance
- participate in discussions, debates and collabortaive group work to demonstrate a deeper understanding of the topic
- visit religious places of worship or invite a speaker into school as appropriate for the age phase
- use ICT to further explore religion and belief globally
- compare religions and worldviews through open discussion
Each lesson is sequenced so that it builds on the learning from the previous lesson, and where appropriate, activities are scaffolded so that all pupils can succeed and thrive. Scaffolded activities provide pupils with extra resources, such as visual prompts, to reach the same learning goals as the rest of the class. Exploratory tasks foster a deeper understanding of a concept, encouraging pupils to apply their learning in different contexts and make connections with other learning experiences.
