Religious Education
Smithdown School is made up of children who originate from many nationalities, cultures and faith groups. As a school we aim to celebrate this diversity and offer a welcoming and inclusive environment for all our pupils, including new arrivals and non-native English speakers. We believe that Religious Education (RE) provides an opportunity to celebrate and foster awareness of these differences within our school and the wider world. It is a subject that celebrates diversity.
Our Aims
- To help our children develop respect and sensitivity for all people
- To help our children understand faith and moral codes to guide them and develop informed opinions
- To help our children develop an understanding of modern multi-cultural Britain and how this is reflected in their lives and local community
- To help our children understand more about the importance of religion in today’s world.
Religious Education Chatter
Eid Mubarak!
25-06-2024
Happy Eid to all our families celebrating! We had a lovely day and week celebrating with all our children and adults.
Throwing and Catching
27-02-2024
We have been practicing our throwing and catching skills in a group. We worked together to see how quickly we can move the beanbag around the circle.
RE: Geometric Patterns
29-01-2024
After learning about Mosques, we followed step by step instructions to create our own geometric Islamic patterns. Now they are designed, we are going to colour. How symmetrical can we make them? ?
RE: Grace, Ummah and Ahimsa
25-01-2024
As part of our unit (Grace, Ummah and Ahimsa), we learnt a little about Ghandi, and how he protested peacefully against wrongs and injustices. We then used some key words to present in his name.
Reception RE
23-01-2024
Reception had a wonderful morning listening to the story of Noah and the Ark
Mosques Around The World
18-01-2024
As part of our RE unit, we are finding out about mosques around the world and presenting our findings in Google Slides.
Year 3 and 4 had an amazing time watching a Christmas performance! We all had a good laugh and got involved.
11-12-2023
Starting our new RE topic
15-11-2023
We started our new Christianity topic by looking at Christian symbols and artefacts. Christians believe God has many titles so we thought about the different labels we have.
Celebrating Diwali
15-11-2023
We have been learning all about the festival of Diwali this week. We made Diwa decorations and cards for Diwali. We also found how Diwali is celebrated and how Diwali means Festival of Light.
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A happy Diwali from 3TS! We made beautiful lanterns to represent the festival of light.
13-11-2023
Diwali Lanterns
13-11-2023
As part of our Diwali celebrations, Year 6 made lanterns displaying the symbols of, not only Hinduism, but other religions of the world too.
We discussed actions of people in The Good Samaritan story.
09-11-2023
We really had interesting ideas about the responses of each of the characters in the story of The Good Samaritan and related situations to everyday life.
3TS explored the Puja in R.E.
19-10-2023
3TS explored the Puja in R.E. then moved onto some tricky rolling in gymnastics. Well done! @SmithdownPrimY3 #smithdownpe #smithdownre
First day back for me today and a lovely day spent with year 2
19-10-2023
First day back for me today and a lovely day spent with @SmithdownPrimY2 counting and discussing precious items important to us @misshath2 #smithdownre
Jewish creation story with each other this week
19-10-2023
Year 2 have worked so hard to share the Jewish creation story with each other this week #smithdownre
Eating apple dipped in honey…
19-10-2023
On Friday we celebrated Rosh Hashanah by eating apple dipped in honey #smithdownre
Today we explored an adult Bible and children’s Bible
19-10-2023
Today we explored an adult Bible and children’s Bible. The Bible is the special Christian Holy Book #smithdownre
