KEY STAGE 1 (Y1 & Y2)
Cycle A 2020/21
Autumn 1
Magnificent Me
Autumn 2
Out of This world
Spring1
Wild Things
Spring 2
Enchanted Woodlands
Summer 2
Castles,Queens, Dragons, Knights
Summer 2
Future Me
KEY STAGE 1 (Y1 & Y2)
Cycle B 2021/22
Autumn 1
Superheroes
Autumn 2
Land Ahoy!
Spring 1
Carnival do Rio
Spring 2
London
Summer 2
Frozen Planet
Summer 2
Homer is Where the Heart Is
Religious Education Curriculum Statement
Queens Road Academy
At Queens Road Academy we believe that RE has an important part to play in promoting the spiritual, moral, social, cultural and intellectual development of our pupils and in helping them to gain a greater understanding of themselves and a more sympathetic awareness of the needs of others. This enables pupils to be better equipped to cope with the responsibilities and experiences of adult life. To promote the ideas of our school vision we believe that education in RE should be a child centred, exciting journey. Children will learn to understand the world and their place in it, know that all members of the school community show respect and tolerance for others and develop a better cultural awareness. Children will have the opportunity to reflect and develop their spiritual awareness. Thinking skills will be developed through child led philosophical discussions and reflection opportunities.
Legal Requirements
At Queens Road Academy, RE is taught within the Barnsley agreed syllabus for Religious Education. RE must be provided for all registered pupils, but parents have the right to withdraw their children from RE lessons. The Educational Reform Act (1988) states that ‘RE must reflect the fact that religious traditions in Great Britain are in the main Christian whilst taking account of the teaching and practices of other principal religions represented in the country’. The Barnsley Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education meets the above requirements.
RE at Queens Road Academy
The school’s starting points are the two Attainment Targets in the agreed syllabus:
- To develop knowledge and understanding of different religions – Learning About Religion
- To explore and respond to human experience – Learning From Religion
At Queens Road Academy, we aim to help pupils to acquire and develop their knowledge and understanding of Christianity and the other principal religions represented in Great Britain: Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.
Christianity
At Christmas and Easter, all classes from FS2- Y6 explore why these festivals are special to Christians. We have taken a developmental approach to planning this curriculum, to ensure that pupils build upon their previous learning each year and explore the festivals from different aspects.
Other Religions
Key stage 1 will study Hinduism.
Lower Key Stage 2 will study Islam
Upper Key Stage 2 will study Buddhism.
These religions will be explored through key questions as set out in the locally agreed syllabus. (See long term plan for details.)
In addition to taught sessions, Queens Road Academy recognises religious festivals as they happen, through assemblies. (Further details of this can be found on the assembly overview.)
Christmas Curriculum
Unit: Christianity | Year 1: Giving & Receiving |
Learn: What is meant by the idea of something ‘precious’ and that some gifts cost nothing, but can be precious. Learn: About the story of the birth of Jesus and that the concepts of giving and receiving. Learn: That Christians believe that Jesus is God’s gift to the world Learn: About the qualities that Christians believe Jesus had. |
Reflect: Upon the precious gifts which our loved ones give us.
Reflect: Upon why Christians believe God gave Jesus as a gift. |
Easter Curriculum
Unit: Christianity | Year 1: Giving up something for love. |
Learn: A simple version of the Easter Story. Learn: The story of Palm Sunday and how people greeted Jesus. |
Reflect: Upon something that they have given up for someone that they love. Reflect: Upon ways in which we show someone we care. Reflect: Upon why Christians believe Jesus gave up his life for them. |
What is Letters and Sounds?
Letters and Sounds is a structured approach to the teaching of phonics, reading and writing, which is used by teachers across England in primary schools. The content is organised into phases. Children will be ready to progress to each stage at different ages and teaching is organised to best meet individual children’s needs. This may mean that your child is not always working with children in the same year group. Phonics is taught every day. Our Homework policy also links into phonics (or spelling as the children get older).
Phase 1/2- Nursery, Activities concentrate on developing children’s speaking and listening skills, awareness of phonemes and blending and segmenting skills.
Phase 2 – 4 Foundation Stage 2, This is when systematic, high quality phonic work begins. Children learn how to represent each of the 42 sounds by a letter or sequence of letters, how to blend sounds for reading and how to segment words for spelling.
- Set 1 s a t p
- Set 2 l m n d
- Set 3 g o c k
- Set 4 ck e u r
- Set 5 h b f ff l ll s
Phase 3 – Foundation Stage 2 , The final letters are introduced, 15 digraphs and 2 trigraphs
- Set 6: j v w x
- Set 7: y z, zz qu ch chip ar farm ee feet sh shop ear dear or for igh night th thin/then ur hurt oa boat ng ring ow cow er corner ai rain oi coin air fair oo boot/look
Phase 4 – Foundation stage 2/Year 1, Children consolidate their knowledge of graphemes and phonemes and begin to blend more complex words.
Phase 5 – Year 1, Children learn new phonemes and investigate how the same phoneme can be represented by different graphemes. ay day oy boy wh when a-e make ou out ir girl ph photo e-e these ie tie ue blue ew new i-e like ea eat aw saw oe toe o-e home au Paul u-e rule
Ways you can support your child at home
- Reading together – Teach lots of nursery rhymes – each one tells a different story.
- Enjoy and share books together – buy or borrow books that will fire their imagination and interest. Libraries will advise you of popular books.
- Make time to read with your child throughout their time in school – PLEASE continue reading to your child, even when they are reading independently. This is very important – your child needs to practice their reading skills every day, and needs the support of an interested adult.
- Let them see you reading – grown-ups can share their magazines about their favourite sport or hobby.
- Read with your child – ask your child to attempt unknown words, using their phonic skills and knowledge. Make sure they blend all through the word.
- Talk about the meaning of the book – take time to talk about what is happening in the book, or things that they found really interesting in an information book. Discuss the characters and important events. Ask them their views. Provide toys, puppets and dressing-up clothes that will help them to act out stories.
- Explain the meaning of words (vocabulary) that your child can read but may not understand, for example, flapped, roared.
- Listen to story tapes.
- Teach your child some action rhymes – ‘Heads, shoulders, knees and toes’, ’Here we go round the mulberry bush’, ‘We all clap hands together’. Use CD’s or the Cbeebies website of nursery rhymes to sing along to.
- Add sound effects when reading a story and encourage your child to join in.
Useful websites
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks Watch as the letters of the alphabet tell stories and make words using phonics. Play the learning game, watch clips and print colouring pages
- www.phonicsplay.co.uk – free interactive resource (Buried Treasure and Picnic on Pluto supports alien words)
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/magicpencil/index.shtml
- http://www.letters-and-sounds.com
- www.parentscentre.gov.uk/foragegroup/5to7years/alittlereadinggoesalongway
- This link gives ideas about how to help your child as they are learning to read.
- www.read-count.org/index.asp A website for you and your child to explore together – it will give you some ideas about reading with your child and has online games for young children to play, both with you and on their own. It also has ideas for games to play away from the computer.
- www.bookstart.co.uk This website provides information about the national Bookstart scheme and the Bookstart packs that your child will receive as a baby, a toddler and at age three to four. It also gives information about sharing books with your child. You can find out about Bookstart events in your area, which you can attend with your child.
- For more information on how schools teach children to read with phonics, visit: http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/pedagogy/phonics