Religious Education

Hello, I am Mrs Moores 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. 

RE around our school

Harvest Festival 2024

To celebrate Harvest Festival this year, Mrs Hardwick led assemblies with each Key Stage. Lots of children shared their work and finished their celebration with a song! Have a look at our creations here...

We also invited our parents to our Harvest Exhibition...

Interfaith Week 2023

In November, we celebrated Interfaith Week. All of our classes explored different religions and learnt about how the theme of light fits into them and their believers lives. We then shared our creations in our Friday assemblies. Have a look at what we made...

Religious Celebration Poems

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. 

Learning Links

• BBC Bitesize - R.E. page 
• REOnline