Religious Education

15Dec2023

This week we have been learning about the first ever Christmas.  Year One have been busy rehearsing their Christmas Nativity. Alongside this, they have also been learning about the Christian story of Christmas. First of all, they learnt the names of all the important characters – Mary, Joseph, Jesu

15Dec2023

Last week, the children in Year 5 spent some time designing their posters for the 2024 RE calendar, which is hung in each class throughout school. Year 5 created posters representing two different Sikh festivals, Hola Mohalla and Guru Nanak’s birthday. The children enjoyed using their creative skill

1Dec2023

It’s the beginning of Christmas in Reception.  This week, Reception have been getting ready for Christmas with the most important job, writing a letter to Santa. We started the week by discussing all of the marvellous things Santa might bring us, then we wrote him a letter. As we did not know what

24Nov2023

Over the past two weeks, Year 3 have been learning about the religion of Judaism. We started the RE block by looking at The Story of Moses. The children learned who Moses was and why he is an important figure to Jewish people. The children discovered that the Ten Commandments were sent to Moses by G

20Oct2023

This term, Year Two have been learning about Christian weddings in their Religious Education lessons.   First, the children found out who was involved in a Christian wedding and where it takes place. The boys and girls found out that Christians get married in the Christian holy building, called

20Oct2023

All of Year One have been enjoying learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali as part of their RE lessons.  They learnt that Diwali is the festival of light and it is celebrated by lighting Diva lamps, giving presents and sweets and enjoying fireworks.  Rangoli patterns are created outside houses

13Oct2023

Over the last two weeks, Year 4 have been looking at Christianity and the miracles of Jesus, along with pilgrimages to sites where miracles are alleged to have taken place. We also looked at some modern day miracles to debate whether we thought they really do exist.  The children always find this t

7Jul2023

In Religious Education, Year Two have been learning about the Islamic celebrations of Ramadan and Eid. First the children found out that Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, which is based on the moon. During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. The boys and girls compared this to