R.E.
As a Church school, RE is a core part of our curriculum. We block our RE learning at the beginning or end of a half term to allow children to become immersed in the concept they are learning, and have a shared experience with other children in the school.
While the study of Christianity is fundamental to us, we believe that exposing our children to other world religions and learning about key beliefs and concepts of, and through, these religions, is crucial to their development as global citizens. When learning about other world religions, we always include a visit to a place of worship and welcome a visitor, at least once a year, to complement our learning and understanding.
We have close, strong links with St. Mary’s church (it’s just next door to us!) and each class leads at least one church service in the school year. We have church services for Harvest Festival, Christingle, Christmas, Epiphany, Trinity, Ash Wednesday, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and for our Year 6 leavers in the summer. Classes can also visit St. Mary's at almost any time, to enhance their learning.
At St Mary's, we use a combination of Living Difference and Understanding Christianity to plan our curriculum. We have a 2-year long term plan to enable us to 'dig deeper' into certain concepts.
This year (2023-24) we are working through Cycle B.
RE Long Term Plan – St Mary’s Bentworth – Cycle A
Understanding Christianity Living Difference Concept Planning in folder
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Oak
| Belonging Friendship Jesus’ Friend Zacchaeus (Hampshire Planning – in folder) | Celebrating Birth – Jesus (UC foundation incarnation plan) | Special People – Jesus (Hampshire Planning – on system) | New Life at Easter (UC foundation salvation plan) | Special Clothes Sikhism (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visitor | Special Places Judaism (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visit
|
Inquire | Contextualise | Evaluate | Contextualise | Communicate | Apply | |
Ash
| Symbol Judaism Hannukah (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visitor | Journey’s End (Nativity Journey) (Hampshire Planning – on system) | Community Gospel (UC KS1 Gospel plan)
| Love Easter (UC KS1 salvation plan) | Special Books Sikhism Guru Granth Sahib (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visit | Persuasion Why did people do what Jesus asked them? (Hampshire Planning – on system) |
Communicate | Contextualise | Inquire | Contextualise | Apply | Evaluate | |
Lime
| Love Neighbour (Hampshire Planning – on system) | Warning The Magi (Hampshire Planning – on system) | Devotion Hinduism Hindu Worship (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visitor | Remembering Easter (UC lower KS2 digging deeper salvation plan) | Community Umma Islam Five Pillars (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visit | Belonging Ritual Food in rituals (Hampshire Planning – on system) |
Inquire | Contextualise | Communicate | Contextualise | Apply | Evaluate | |
Elder
| Protection Hinduism Raksha Bandan (Hampshire Planning – on system)
| Messiah (UC upper KS2 incarnation plan) | Freedom and Justice – Moses (UC people of upper KS2 God plan) | Resurrection (UC upper KS2 salvation plan) | Special Ritual Islam (Hampshire Planning – on system)
| Project days: chosen theme across all religions including humanism, buddism etc Visitor |
Communicate | Contextualise | Inquire | Evaluate | Apply | Contextualise |
RE Long Term Plan – St Mary’s Bentworth – Cycle B
Understanding Christianity Living Difference Concept Planning in folder
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Oak | Creation (UC foundation creation plan) | Waiting (UC KS1 incarnation plan) | Belonging (UC Gospel KS1 People Jesus Met plan) | Welcoming at Easter (Hampshire Planning – on system) | Remembering Sikhism Guru Nanak (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visitor | Community Remembering Judaism Shabbat (Hampshire Planning – on system) |
Inquire | Contextualise | Evaluate | Contextualise | Communicate | Apply | |
Ash | Creation (UC KS1 creation plan) | Angels (Hampshire Planning – on system) | Remembering Judaism Passover (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visit | Love Changing Emotions (UC KS1 salvation plan) | Special Precious Sikhism Baptism and naming ceremonies (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visitor | God (UC KS1 God plan)
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Inquire | Contextualise | Communicate | Contextualise | Apply | Evaluate | |
Lime | Creation and Fall (UC KS2 creation plan) | Community Interpretation birth narratives (Hampshire Planning – on system) | Good and Evil Hinduism Holi (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visit | Love as Sacrifice (UC salvation plan) | Kingdom of God Pentecost (UC KOG plan) | Symbol Islam Trees (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visitor |
Contextualise | Evaluate | Communicate | Contextualise | Inquire | Apply | |
Elder | Protection Hinduism Raksha Bandan (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visitor | Special Messiah (UC upper KS2 incarnation plan) | Freedom and Justice – Moses (UC upper KS2 people of God plan) | Resurrection (UC upper KS2 salvation plan) | Belonging Belonging in Islam (Hampshire Planning – on system) Visit | Project days: chosen theme across all religions including humanism, buddism etc |
Communicate | Evaluate | Inquire | Contextualise | Apply | Contextualise |
You can find Living Difference, the agreed RE syllabus for Hampshire here;
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/education/hias/curriculumsupport/living-difference.htm
Find out more about Understanding Christianity here;
Our lead Governor for RE was Canon Ed Pruen until his retirement in January 2021.
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