National Curriculum Content

Our local council, Derbyshire and Derby City are responsible for deciding the RE syllabus.  The Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education for 2020–2025, states the principal aim of RE is to engage pupils in systematic enquiry into significant human questions which religion and worldviews address, so that they can develop the understanding and skills needed to appreciate and appraise varied responses to these questions, as well as develop responses of their own.  

Our school uses the Discovery RE enquiry-based approach for teaching RE. 

Each curriculum area is created around an enquiry question.

Enquiry Question

Would visiting the River Ganges feel special to a non-Hindu?

Overall and Lesson Objectives

To understand the Hindu belief that there is one God with many different aspects.

1. Engagement – Understand why water is important.
2. Investigation – Investigate why the River Ganges is important to Hindus.
3. Evaluation – Evaluate whether a visit to the River Ganges would be special for a non-Hindu.
4. Expression – Express our feelings why water is important to each of us.

What we want children to know

• Understand why water is important.
• Know why the River Ganges is important to Hindus.
• Evaluate, after researching whether a visit to the River Ganges would be special to a non-Hindu.
• Apply understanding of the importance of collage through art work.

What skills we want children to develop

• To understand individual liberty
• To have mutual respect
• To show tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs.

Vocabulary

appreciate, Brahman, Ganges, pilgrimage, special, spiritual, Varanasi