Year 5/6 Religious Education

Cycle A

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Expressing-Is it better to express your religion in arts and architecture or in charity and generosity?

  • What makes a place special? What is a sacred place? Are all places sacred? What is the value of a sacred place?

  • How do mosque buildings express Islamic beliefs and values? What makes a fine mosque?

  • Muslim calligraphy, painting and poetry: what is inspiring?

  • How do Christians use art in worship and in remembering Jesus? What do you admire about some works of art?

  • Can a Christian place of worship be a building for the ‘glory of God’? What does this mean?

  • How and why do Muslim charities try to change the world?

  • How and why does Christian Aid try to change the world?

  • What matters more to Christians & Muslims: art and architecture or generosity and charity? What matters more to you?

Discovery RE-Is the Christmas story true?

Children are learning to evaluate different accounts of the Christmas story and understand that stories can be true in different ways.

Spring 1

Spring 2

Living- What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today?

  • What helps you through the journey of life? What helps Muslims through the journey of life?

  • What is the key belief of Muslims? How does this affect their life?

  • Why does prayer matter to Muslims?

  • How is charity important to Muslims? How is charity important to you?

  • Why do Muslims fast?

  • Why do Muslims want to go on pilgrimage?

Living- What does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain today?

  • Where do people get advice and guidance from?

  • What is a special place for Muslims?

  • Can you think of similar commitments to the five pillars in your life? What matters to Muslims?

Living- What matters most to Christians and to Humanists?

  • Do rules matter? Why? What is a code for living?

  • Who is a humanist? What codes for living do non–religious people use?

  • What can we learn from discussion and drama about good & bad, right & wrong?

Summer 1

Summer 2

Living- What matters most to Christians and to Humanists?

  • What codes for living do Christians try to follow?

  • What can we learn from a Values Game?

  • Peace: is it more valuable than any money?

  • Can we create a code for living that would help the world?

Living - What difference does it make to believe in Ahimsa (harmlessness), Grace, and Ummah (community)?

  • What can we learn from the game ‘Everyone’s Committed’? What does it mean for Hindus, Muslims and Christians to commit to key beliefs?

  • How do Muslim people build their community, the Ummah, by following their Prophet?


Living - What difference does it make to believe in Ahimsa (harmlessness), Grace, and Ummah (community)?

  • How does it feel to be a part of the Muslim Ummah? What difference does it make?

  • What does harmlessness mean in the Hindu religion? The example of the ways Gandhi stood up for his beliefs and commitments?

  • How do Hindus show their commitment to ahimsa through acts of service or sewa?

  • What did Jesus teach about God’s grace and forgiveness?

  • Why did Jesus share bread & wine with his disciples, the night of his arrest? How did Jesus show the meaning of grace?

  • How can the life of a great Christian person show us the meaning of grace?

  • What have we learned from the Muslims, Christians and Hindus about their commitments to the Ummah, to Ahimsa and to Grace? How are these religions similar, and how are they different?

Cycle B

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Believing- Why do some people think God exists?

  • How many people believe in God?

  • Is God Real? What do Christians think?

  • How do we know what is true? Why do people believe or not believe in God?

  • What do Christians believe about how the world began? Do they all share the same idea?

  • Is God Real? Why do some people believe God exists? Why do some people believe God doesn’t exist?

Believing- What would Jesus do? Can people live by the values of Jesus in the twenty-first century?

  • Can you work out what mattered to Jesus from 10 things he said? What was his ‘mission statement’?

  • What is the importance of the value of love? How did Jesus teach his followers to love?

  • What do Jesus’ parables about forgiveness teach to Christians today?

  • How do Christians today try to follow Jesus’ teaching about justice and fairness? The example of Mother Teresa

  • What did Jesus teach about being generous and being greedy?

  • What does the teaching of Jesus have to say about some problems people face today? What would Jesus do?

  • What have we learned about living by the values of Jesus in the modern world?

Spring 1

Spring 2

Expressing-If God is everywhere, why go to a place of worship?

  • What is a place of worship? What is it for?

  • What is a Christian place of worship? What is it for?

  • What is a Hindu place of worship? What is it for?

  • What is a Jewish place of worship? What is it for?

  • Are people more important than the place?

  • What is a place of worship? What is it for?

  • What does a place of worship mean to believers?

Believing- What do religions say to us when life gets hard?

  • What questions have you got about what happens when we die?

  • What do some people think carries on after we have died? What is our soul?

  • Do some people believe that you come back to life as a different thing? What is reincarnation?

  • Do you get to heaven if you do things wrong?

  • What do Christians think happens when we die?

Summer 1

Summer 2

Believing- What do religions say to us when life gets hard?

  • What do people who don’t believe in God think happens when we die?

  • What different ideas are there about what happens when we die? What do I think?

Hindu beliefs- How can Brahman be everywhere and in everything?

  • We are learning to understand the Hindu belief that there is one God with many different aspects.