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bath & wells: services for children and young people
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Church Schools in the Diocese
Religious Education must be provided for all registered pupils in full-time education in schools, including pupils in Reception Classes whether or not they have reached their fifth birthday. This RE must be in accordance with the Locally Agreed Syllabus (Awareness, Mystery and Value).
Children in Nursery Classes are not subject to these requirements.
All children in the Foundation Stage will be working towards the Early Learning Goals. ELGs which are particularly relevant to the area of RE include:
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Respond to significant experiences, showing a range of feelings when appropriate
- Have a developing awareness of their own needs, views and feelings and be sensitive to the needs, views and feelings of others
- Have a developing respect for their own cultures and beliefs and those of other people
- Form good relationships with adults and peers
- Work as part of a group or class, taking turns and sharing fairly, understanding that there needs to be agreed values and codes of behaviour for groups of people, including adults and children, to work together harmoniously
- Understand what is right, what is wrong, and why
- Consider the consequences of their words and actions for themselves and others
- Understand that people have different needs, views, cultures and beliefs, that need to be treated with respect
- Understand that they can expect others to treat their needs, views, cultures and beliefs with respect
- Communication, Language and Literacy
- Interact with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversation
- Sustain attentive listening, responding to what they have heard by relevant comments, questions or actions
- Listen with enjoyment, and respond to stories, songs and other music, rhymes and poems and make up their own stories, songs, rhymes and poems
- Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- Investigate objects and materials by using all of their senses as appropriate
- Ask questions about why things happen and how things work
- Find out about past and present events in their own lives, and in those of their families and other people they know
- Observe, find out about and identify features in the place they live and the natural world
- Begin to know about their own cultures and beliefs and those of other people
- Creative Development
- Use their imagination in art and design, music, dance, imaginative and role play and stories
- Express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings by using a widening range of materials, suitable tools, imaginative and role play, movement, designing and making, and a variety of songs and musical instruments
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In Reception Classes links need to be made between the Early Learning Goals and Awareness, Mystery and Value. These connections can be identified in planning.
e.g. Unit 9 - The Life of Jesus
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Early Learning Goals |
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| Identify people who have helped or guided them in their lives |
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Find out about past and present events in their own lives |
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| Listen to and discuss stories about the Life of Jesus |
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Sustain attentive listening responding to what they have heard by relevant questions, comments and actions.
Express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings. |
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| Discuss some aspects of Jesus' teaching |
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Consider the consequences of their words and actions for themselves and others.
Begin to know about their own cultures and beliefs and those of other people.
Understand that people have different needs, views, cultures and beliefs which need to be treated with respect. |
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Foundation Stage and the Agreed Syllabus
The Attainment Targets set out on p9 of the Awareness, Mystery and Value document apply to all children at their various stages of development.
For the Foundation Stage these Early Learning Goals are very appropriate:
AT1 Learning from Religion and Human Experience
- respond to significant experiences, showing a range of feelings when appropriate
- have a developing awareness of their own needs, views and feelings and be sensitive to the needs, views and feelings of others
- understand what is right, what is wrong, and why
- consider the consequences of their words and actions for themselves and others
AT2 Learning about Religions
- understand that people have different needs, views, cultures and beliefs, that need to be treated with respect
- understand that they can expect others to treat their needs, views, cultures and beliefs with respect
- find out about past and present events in their own lives, and in those of their families and other people they know
- begin to know about their own cultures and beliefs and those of other people
The Six Areas of Enquiry on p11 may also usefully provide a focus for learning in the Foundation Stage:
- Exploring human identity, personality and experience
Finding out and thinking about themselves and their experiences
- Exploring the world in which we live
Finding out and thinking about the world they live in, about how and why things happen and work and about the wonders and mysteries around them
- Exploring people's values and commitments
Learning about relating to other people and respecting others' feelings and beliefs
- Exploring beliefs about spiritual dimensions of life
Finding out and thinking about people's ideas and beliefs, including religious beliefs
- Exploring religious practices and lifestyles
Finding out and thinking about how people live and what they do and say, including in their religious life
- Exploring ways of expressing religious beliefs, ideas and feelings
Experiencing many ways of expressing ideas and feelings, both by responding and by taking part
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