RE Impact Statement – Summer 2025

Our RE curriculum, delivered through the RE Today Primary RE programme and supported by NATRE, continues to be successfully implemented across the school. Additional resources from the NATRE website have also been used to enhance teaching where appropriate. During the final term, classes have discovered learning through a variety of religious and world view topics. Examples of these are 'What does it mean to belong to a faith community?', 'How and why do people try to make the world a better place?', 'What does it mean to be Hindu in Britain today?' and 'Why do some people believe in God and some not?' Reminders were also given to adults regarding the use of our RE religious boxes for each religion to support learning and teaching across this curriculum. Feedback regarding these resource boxes have been positive from both staff and pupils.

We have continued to be fortunate to have regular visits from Father Rob and Selina from St John’s church to deliver whole school assemblies. We have also welcomed members of the wider community to lead special lessons. For example, a staff member delivered an additional session to Year 1 to enrich their understanding of belonging to faith communities, during which she shared personal artefacts from her Islamic faith.

The RE webpage and social media page on our school website has continued to be updated throughout the term. Updates have included children’s recent learning, celebrations and awareness of special religious dates and also assemblies and services.

DATA for Summer term –

Next steps: 

• To ensure there is interest and wonder towards RE throughout the school.
• To organise further upcoming celebrations for the next academic year.
• Arrange places of worship visits for year groups as well as their visits to the Church.
• Update resources from RE Today scheme.
• Continue pupil studies and discussions with the children for pupil voice.
• To complete a staff voice survey and offer necessary CPD opportunities.

RE Impact Statement – Spring 2025

Our RE syllabus through RE Today Primary RE curriculum and NATRE has continued to be successfully taught across the school, as well as using the resources from the NATRE website to support teaching where necessary. During Spring term, classes have continued to explore questions from a variety of religions, such as ‘Who is Jewish and how do they live?’, ‘Why does Easter matter to Christians?’, ‘How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim?’ and ‘Creation and science, conflicting or complimentary?’. Our RE resource boxes have also continued to be used to supplement teaching across each religion.  

This term, we have continued to be fortunate enough to have regular assemblies from Father Rob and Selina from St John’s church about Shrove Tuesday and Lent. We have also attending the church as a school for our annual Easter service to celebrate Easter and Holy Week. Here, a selection of children from each class shared some songs, Easter prayers and art work relating to Easter. 

Year 5 were also fortunate to visit a local Synagogue to support their Judaism unit. They visited the different parts of the synagogue, tried challah bread and grape juice, viewed the Torah and also were able to re-enact dinner. The feedback from staff and children were extremely positive and they found the experience very informative.

The RE webpage on our school website has continued to be updated throughout the term. Updates have included children’s recent learning, special religious dates and also assemblies and services.

DATA for Spring term –

Next steps: 

• To ensure there is interest and wonder towards RE throughout the school.
• To organise further upcoming celebrations for the next academic year.
• Arrange places of worship visits for year groups as well as their visits to the Church.
• Monitor the consistency of RE lessons, ensuring all use the resource boxes and resources available through NATRE.
• Continue pupil studies and discussions with the children for pupil voice.
• To complete a staff voice survey and offer necessary CPD opportunities.

RE Impact Statement – Autumn 2024

Our RE syllabus through RE Today Primary RE curriculum and NATRE has continued to be successfully taught across the school, as well as using the resources from the NATRE website to support teaching where necessary. During Autumn term, classes explored questions from a variety of religions, such as ‘Who do Christians say made the world?’, ‘What is the Trinity and why is it important for Christians?’, ‘What does it mean to be Sikh in Britain today?’ and ‘What do the ‘Foot Festivals’ mean in Judaism today?’. Through this scheme, and support through the Hertfordshire Agreed Syllabus, we will continue to learn about Christianity in depth, as well as Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Sikhism, and incorporating a non-religious worldviews approach. Our RE resource boxes were also finalised with updated contents lists with photos in order to supplement teaching across each religion.

This term we have been privileged to have two Church visits at St John’s Church as a whole school for Harvest and Christmas for our annual celebrations. Year 2 also thoroughly enjoyed their visit to the church for a Christingle service and to make Christmas wishes. We have had multiple assembly visits from Father Rob and Selina to inform the children and discuss Harvest, Advent and overcoming fears. This extends and develops the children’s knowledge and appreciation of Christianity both to religious and non-religious beliefs.

This year, in order to celebrate diversity and raise the profile of RE and different religions, we organised a whole school Diwali workshop for each year group. The children and adults took part in a 30 minute workshop to learn traditional Indian dance and to learn about Diwali. The feedback from children and staff was excellent, and we have decided to rebook again for the next academic year.

Finally, our RE curriculum webpage and Facebook page have continued to be regularly updated to raise awareness of a variety of religious events and celebrations, and to also share the children’s learning throughout the school.

DATA for Autumn term –

Next steps: 

• To ensure there is interest and wonder towards RE throughout the school.
• To organise further upcoming celebrations such as Easter etc.
• Monitor that there are opportunities for written outcomes within RE lessons for the children to show their English skills across the curriculum. 
• Arrange places of worship visits for year groups as well as their visits to the Church.
• Monitor the consistency of RE lessons, ensuring all use the resource boxes and resources available through NATRE.
• Continue pupil studies and discussions with the children for pupil voice.
• To complete a staff voice survey and offer necessary CPD opportunities.