At Hamp Nursery and Infant School, we have designed our Religious Education Curriculum, with the intent that all our children become confident, questioning, mindful and accepting learners. Our RE Curriculum takes our children on a journey of exploration, where they can discover more about themselves and their own beliefs, as they find out about the core beliefs of some world religions in the world we live in. We believe the teaching of RE is vital for helping children make connections between their own values and the beliefs of others. It is our role to provide high quality and creative experiences, to enable children to reflect on, discover, respond to and question the beliefs of others. This will encourage them to start forming their own ideas, opinions and beliefs, thereby developing their awareness of being a part of a richly diverse and changing world.

At Hamp Nursery and Infants School we aim, by the end of Key Stage One, to develop in all students the ability to:

• Think about what makes them special, important and unique.

• Think and wonder about the world they live in.

• Know and talk about similarities and differences between themselves and others, within their family and school communities.

• Know, reflect on and respect what different religious and cultural communities believe.

• Know and understand some essential key beliefs of Christianity, Judaism and Humanism.

• Know some special stories from Christianity and Judaism.

• Interpret what the stories are telling the believers about their god.

• Interpret what the stories are telling the believers about how to live their lives.

• Suggest answers to raised questions.

• Explore religious beliefs through questioning.

• Reflect on and articulate their own beliefs.