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Religious Education

Our Religious Education curriculum follows a locally agreed syllabus called ‘Living Difference’.

At Harefield, we aim to promote the spiritual wellbeing of every child. We provide our pupils with
the essential skills and knowledge they need to become respectful and tolerant of those with
different faiths and beliefs. This supports our ethos as a Rights Respecting School by enabling our children to respect their, and others, right to think and believe what they want (Articles 12 and 14).

We follow a concept-based curriculum where our pupils will have the opportunity to respond to a variety of concepts that are common to all people, shared by many religions and often distinctive to particular religions.

We follow a cycle of enquiry by which we recognise and value the pupil’s own experiences and views, allowing them
to enquire, contextualize and evaluate concepts. As a school, we will also take into account when teaching the religious backgrounds represented by our children. We also promote the fundamental British value of democracy.

RE Topic Overview

For more information on what your child will be learning in RE, please go to Curriculum/ Yr R to Yr 6 Curriculum Newsletters for the appropriate term.

Year group

CONCEPT

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Assessment step focus

Autumn 1 – communicate

Autumn 2 - apply

Spring 1 – inquire

Spring 2 - contextualise

Summer 1 – Evaluate

Summer 2 – ALL EOY

Early Years

Autumn 1 – not taught

Autumn 2 – Celebrating Birth

Spring 1 – Special People

Spring 2 -  Symbol of new life

Summer 1 – Precious (water)

Summer 2 – Special food

1

Autumn 1 – Celebration

Autumn 2 – Candlelight as a symbol

Spring 1 – Change

Spring 2 -  Sadness to Happiness

Summer 1 - God

Summer 2 - Belonging

2

Autumn 1 – Special books

Autumn 2 - journeys

Spring 1 – remembering

Spring 2 - belief

Summer 1 – water rituals

Summer 2 - authority

3

Autumn 1 – God

Autumn 2 - Holy

Spring 1 – Holi – good and evil

Spring 2 -  symbol of the cross

Summer 1 – stories with messages

Summer 2 - belonging

4

Autumn 1 – food rituals

Autumn 2 - imagery

Spring 1 – peace

Spring 2 -  identity (purim)

Summer 1 – special places

Summer 2 - protection

5

Autumn 1 – Ritual - sukkot

Autumn 2 - faith

Spring 1 – wisdom

Spring 2 -  symbol (Eucharist)

Summer 1 – Enlightenment (Wesak)

Summer 2 – rites of passage

6

Autumn 1 – Justice

Autumn 2 - interpretation

Spring 1 – sacrifice

Spring 2 -  power

Summer 1 – Pondering project

Summer 2 – Pondering project