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Welcome to R.E

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Welcome to Religious Education at Knaphill Junior

School!

This portfolio will provide you with an insight into the excellent R.E teaching and

learning that take place here at Knaphill.

Below is a short overview of what is included in this document.

Page Number Title Page

1 Front Cover

2 Contents Page

3 Whole School Overview

4 British Values

5-7 R.E in Year 3

8-11 R.E in Year 4

12-15 R.E in Year 5

16-18 R.E in Year 6

19 Harvest Festival

20 Remembrance Day

21 Diwali Festival

22 Christmas Play and Carol Concert

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Whole School Overview

At Knaphill, we base our R.E lessons around the Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education in

Surrey Schools. The children have the opportunity to learn about the main religious

throughout their time at Knaphill.

In R.E there are two attainment targets (AT1 and AT2) that must be covered in our R.E

lesson. Below is an outline of each attainment target.

AT1: Learning about Religions

This attainment target refers to how pupils develop their knowledge, skills and understanding

with reference to: beliefs, teachings and sources; practices and ways of life; forms of

expression.

AT2: Learning from Religion

This attainment target refers to how pupils, in the light of their learning about religion,

express their responses and insights with regard to questions and issues about: identity and

belonging; meaning, purpose and truth; values and commitments.

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British Values

Although the teachers ensure that the British Values are covered in all lessons

across the curriculum, R.E is one of the most important lessons to promote

‘Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs’. It is important that the

children learn about different faiths and cultures from around the world. The

teachers at Knaphill work hard to ensure that the children enjoy learning about

these different faiths and cultures. Where appropriate, the children are also given

the opportunity to visit different places of worship and have people from different

faiths or with different beliefs visit and talk to them. We also promote diversity by

celebrating different celebrations from faiths around the world. This has proved

very successful to the children’s learning, promoting respect for others – one of

our school values.

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Year 3

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Autumn Term 1 – Who is Jesus?

In this unit, the children learn that Jesus lives at the time of the Roman Empire and

that there is written historical evidence of his life. The children also discover that

Jesus and his disciples were Jewish and the key events and people in his Jesus’

life.

Autumn Term 2 – How do Christians celebrate milestones in

their lives? Why are presents given at Christmas?

In the second half term, the children focus on

different milestones that Christians celebrate,

including baptisms. The children had the

opportunity to participate in a Baptism conducted

by Reverend Grew at the Holy Trinity Church.

Autumn Term 2 – Why are presents given at Christmas?

As Christmas gets closer, the children discover how Christians believe that Jesus

was a gift from God and how this is the reason behind giving presents at

Christmas time.

Spring Term 1 – What does it mean to be a Hindu?

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Spring Term 2 – What can we learn from the Hindu use of

images?

In the Spring Term, the children begin to explore the Hindu religion and learn

about the origins of Hinduism and what they believe about God.

Summer Term 1 – What is the Buddhist way of life?

The image above shows the Year 3 children visiting a Buddhist temple, where they

learnt about the Buddhist beliefs and meditation. The children were able to take

this opportunity to ask the monk questions that they have as well as share the

things they learnt about Buddha, gaining enlightenment through meditation and

the four noble truths.

Summer Term 2 – What is faith and what difference does it

make to our local communities?

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Year 4

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Autumn Term 1 – Why do Christians make promises in

marriage?

This image shows the Year 4 children

visiting the Holy Trinity Church and

participating in a wedding conducted

by Reverend Grew. This wedding

took place after the children learnt

about the symbolism and meaning of

marriage to Christians and how

marriage plays an important role in

society.

Autumn Term 2 – How can artists help us to understand

Christmas?

In this unit, the children learn why artists

throughout history and around the world

have attempted to depict events

surrounding the birth of Jesus. They also

explore how these artists have used

symbols to express the mysterious events

of the nativity and to express deep

Christian beliefs and the person of Jesus.

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Spring Term 1 – Why is prayer important to Christians?

At the start of the Spring Term, Year 4 discover that Christians see prayer as

important in building a relationship with God, exploring examples of Jesus prayer

to God in the bible and what this may represent. The children also look at the

different ways Christians pray to God, hoping for an answer.

Spring Term 2 – How do Christians prepare for Easter?

The Year 4 children were lucky enough to receive a visit from Reverend Grew.

Reverend Grew spoke to the children about how Christians prepare for Easter and

how. The children then had the opportunity to share what they had learnt with

Reverend Grew and ask any important they had about this important celebration in

the Christian calendar.

Summer Term 1 – Who do Muslims believe?

At the start of the Summer Term, the children learn about Islam and what Muslims

believe. The children discover the following areas of the Muslim faith:

Allah

Muhammad and the Prophets

The significance of the Qur’an

Five Pillars of Islam

Prayer and the Mosque

Life after death

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The children also had the opportunity to visit the local Mosque – the Islamic place

of worship.

Here are some examples of the work the children produced during this unit.

Summer Term 2 – Living together in one World.

An extremely important unit, the children learn how we are all member of different

communities. The children also learn that there are situations of social and

economic unfairness in the world and understanding someone else’s point of view

can help make us better global citizens.

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Year 5

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Autumn Term 1 – How did it all begin?

The children in Year 5 had a really exciting topic in R.E which linked to their Space

Quest topic. They learnt about the beliefs of different faiths of how the world

began. The children learnt about the Christian Creation story and created their

own rap or storyboard to retell it in their own words. They then explored the

different creation stories from around the world and presented them to the rest of

the class.

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Autumn Term 2 – Who is the Holy Spirit?

In the second half of the Autumn Term, the children

explored the Hindu and Chinese Creation story in

more detail. After this unit, the children learnt about

the Holy Spirit and how it is represented in a range of

different ways in the Bible. They explored the Story of

Pentecost and wrote diary entries from the point of

view of one of Jesus’ disciples – an opportunity to

show off their writing skills too!

Spring Term 1: Who are the Jews?

The children learnt about Judaism and what they believe. They looked at Jewish

symbols and artefacts as well as their important festivals. The children also

compared the Jewish and Christian faith with each other. The children will also

have the opportunity to visit a Synagogue – the Jewish place of worship.

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Spring Term 2 – What is Maundy Thursday about? How do we

know what happened at Easter?

During the lead up to Easter, the

children deepened their knowledge from

Year 4 about the Easter Story by

looking into the meaning of it in more

detail. We were lucky enough to get a

visit from Reverend Grew, who

answered all of our questions about the

Easter Story and what happened.

Summer Term 1 – How is faith expressed through worship?

Summer Term 2 – What does it mean

to be a Sikh?

The children learnt about Sikhism and what Sikhs

believe. They explored the important symbols of

the Sikh community (the 5K’s) and why they are so

important to Sikhs. It was really interesting for the

children to discover how the Sikh religion began.

The children then went on to explore the Golden

Temple – a Sikh place of worship. They imagined

what it would look like and created their own trip

advisor review about their experiences there.

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Year 6

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Autumn Term 1 – What do Christians believe God is like? The children learn that Christians believe that God is a Trinity – Father, Son and

Holy Spirit. The children also learn that God has many titles which reflect aspects

of his character (holy, loving, just and forgiving).

Autumn Term 2 – How did Jesus change lives? What do

Christians believe about the birth of Jesus?

In this unit, the children learn about Jesus and how Christians believe that he

showed he was God’s son by performing miracles like the feeding of the five

thousand and the raising of Lazarus. The children then move on to learning about

what Christians believe about the birth of Jesus and its significance about the Birth

of Jesus.

Spring Term 1 – How do people express their faith through

Art?

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Spring Term 2 – What do we do when someone dies? Did

Jesus have to die?

In the Spring Term, the Year 6 children

look at what happens when someone

dies. It is a sensitive but important unit

to cover as it explains to children that

death is a part of the human life cycle

and to also learn that someone people

believe that there is life after death. It

also gives the children the opportunity

to discuss feelings around losing a

loved one and think of practical ways to remember someone after they have died.

Summer Term 1 – The Bible. What’s it all about?

In the Summer Term, the children learn

that the Bible is an important book for

Christians and many other people across

the World. They explore the history of the

Bible and learn about the Old and New

Testament and who they were written by.

Summer Term 2 – What do your clothes say about you?

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Harvest Festival

Early in the Autumn Term, we celebrated Harvest. As a whole school we decided

to take the opportunity to help those in need in our local community. The children

were invited to bring in a selection of food which could be distributed to the Woking

Food Bank, who were extremely grateful.

Parents and governors were invited into school for the Harvest assembly where a

group of children performed a short drama presentation about the meaning of

Harvest and the whole school sang Harvest songs. The actors and the Year 6

children then went to the Vyne in Knaphill to perform to some local residents

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Remembrance Day

On behalf of the churches from Knaphill, Roger Furnell organised a service for

Remembrance Day which took place at the site of the old library. As well as local

residents, the service was attended by Jonathan Lord MP, local councillors and

representatives from the Army and British Legion.

It was a very special service in the village. Adam Joll, Lilly Burke, Freddy Hopkins

and Benjamin Avery all read out their prayers for peace which they had written in

class. It was a moving service and the children spoke beautifully and confidently.

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Diwali Festival

In November, Knaphill Junior School was asked to participate in the Diwali Lantern

Parade and Celebration Event in Woking Town Centre. Ten children from across

the year groups designed some bright, colourful lanterns using handcrafted

structures made from willow rods. On Thursday 12th November, they participated

in a procession which was led around Woking Town Centre by a traditional

Chenda Melam group who were playing Indian drums and percussion. All of the

children who attended the event had a fantastic evening and especially enjoyed

the opportunity to watch Bharatanatyam and Bollywood dancers take to the stage

as well as being able to soak up the Bangra music and lively atmosphere.

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Christmas Play and Carol Concert

Year 3 and 4

The children from across Years 3 and 4 participated in rehearsals for this year’s

Christmas production entitled, ‘What Christmas Means to Me.’ Throughout the

play, the children took a witty and thoughtful look at the characters and events that

shape our experiences of the festive season. They also considered how Christmas

came to be and began to discover that all the celebrations and traditions actually

can mean very little, unless this special time of year is shared with our nearest and

dearest.

Year 5 and 6

Whilst looking at the story of Christmas, the children sang a range of carols

beautifully to celebrate this special event and what it really means to Christians.

Every child who took part,

from the readers and actors, to

the choir, soloists and carol

singers, gave 100% and put

on a brilliant performance at

the Holy Trinity Church.

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