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.