Why do we learn Religious Education?
Our approach
Reception
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6

Why do we learn Religious Education?

We believe that a strong Religion and Worldviews education provokes challenging questions about meaning and purpose in life, beliefs about God, ultimate reality, issues of right and wrong and what it means to be human.

Our approach

The Religious Education curriculum at Conway aims to enable each pupil to understand, reflect upon and develop their own personal worldview. We aim to encourage children’s curiosity about the world and develop their critical thinking skills by using the key concept of worldviews. Worldviews are different ways of understanding the world. By exploring how worldviews are formed, change over time and are expressed at both individual and communal levels, pupils will reflect upon and refine their own worldview as well as those of others, thus enabling them to appreciate the diversity of thought while independently forming their own. 

Links to the local context are forged through trips to places of religious significance and sharing experiences and perspectives from the parent and local community.

Reception

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

What makes people
special to us?

 What can we learn
from special stories?
Spring 1 Spring 2
What times are special
to us?		 How should we look
after our world?
Summer 1 Summer 2
What makes a
place special?		 What things are special to
us?

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Year 1

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
What do Christians
believe about God?		 What can we learn
from Creation stories?
Spring 1 Spring 2
What is Islam? Why is prayer
important for many
people?
Summer 1 Summer 2
What does it
mean to be
a member of
the Jewish
community?		 What role do festivals and
holy days play in the life of
faith?

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Year 2

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
What is Buddhism? What is the place of the
church in Christianity?
Spring 1 Spring 2
What is Humanism and
what do Humanists
believe?		 How do we mark
stages in the human
journey?
Summer 1 Summer 2
What does it
mean to be a
Hindu?		 What does it mean to be a
Sikh?

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Year 3

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
What is the significance
of Easter within
Christianity?		 How do sacred
scriptures inform
religious beliefs?
Spring 1 Spring 2
Why is pilgrimage
important in some
religious traditions?		 What does Sikhism
teach us about selfless
service?
Summer 1 Summer 2
What can we learn from
different symbols?		 Why are festivals,
celebrations and High
Holy Days so important
within Judaism?

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Year 4

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
What do Muslims
believe?		 What do Jewish people
believe about God?
Spring 1 Spring 2
How can significant
figures inspire us?		 What does it mean to
follow the Buddha?
Summer 1 Summer 2
What do sacred texts
within Hinduism say
about God?		 What contribution can
religion make to our
society?

All Year 4 subjects Next Year 4 Subject - Music

Year 5

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
What does Buddhism
teach us about human
experience?		 What is significant to
Christians about Jesus’
life and teaching?
Spring 1 Spring 2
In what ways can the
art and design express
different beliefs?		 What place do
festivals, worship and
celebrations have within
Hinduism?
Summer 1 Summer 2
How is human identity
and belonging shaped
by faith and belief?		 What does it mean to be
a Muslim?

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Year 6

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
What can we learn from
Humanism?		 Why is the Torah so
important within
Judaism?
Spring 1 Spring 2
In what ways do
Christians in different
denominations worship?		 How can religion
promote peace and
justice in our society?
Summer 1 Summer 2
What happens in the
mosque?		 What happens in the
Gurdwara?

All Year 6 subjects Next Year 6 Subject - Music