RE in EYFS

Communication & Language (Listening, Attention, Understanding)

Examples of how this is developed in relation to the RE curriculum include:

• Develop their spoken language through quality conversation in a language-rich environment, gaining new vocabulary about religion and worldviews.
• Engage actively with stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems from the RE field.
• Share their ideas via conversation, storytelling and role play, responding to support and modelling from their teacher, and sensitive questioning that invites them to elaborate their thoughts in the RE field.
• Become comfortable using a rich range of vocabulary and language structures in relation to RE content.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Examples of how this is developed in relation to the RE curriculum include:

• Observe and join in warm and supportive relationships with adults and learn how to understand their own feelings and those of others.
• Manage emotions and develop a positive sense of self, understanding their own feelings and those of others e.g. through religious story
• Talk and think about simple values as they learn how to make good friendships, co-operate and resolve conflicts peaceably.
• Notice and respond to ideas about caring, sharing and kindness from RE content including stories, saying and songs.

Physical development

Examples of how this is developed in relation to the RE curriculum include:

• Use and develop their motor skills through RE based arts and craft ideas and, for example small world play, visual representations of their ideas and thoughts, role play.

Literacy

Examples of how this is developed in relation to the RE curriculum include:

• Build their abilities in language comprehension through talking with adults about the world around them, including the world of religion and belief.
• Engage with stories and non-fiction in RE settings and enjoy rhymes, poems and songs together.
• Build their skills in RE-related word reading, recognising religious words and discovering new vocabulary in relation to religious and worldviews
• Articulate ideas and use RE examples to write simple phrases or sentences that can be read by others.

Mathematics

Examples of how this is developed in relation to the RE curriculum include:

• Develop their special reasoning skills, noticing shape, space and measures in relation to RE content.
• Look for patterns and relationships and spot connections, sorting and ordering objects simply.

Understanding the World

Examples of how this is developed in relation to the RE curriculum include:

• Make sense of their physical world and their community, e.g. on visits to places of worship, or by meeting members of religious communities.
• Listen to a broad selection of stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems to foster understanding of our culturally, socially and ecologically diverse world.
• Extend their knowledge and familiarity with words that support understanding of religion and belief
• Talk about the lives of people around them, understanding characters and events from stories.
• Know some similarities and differences between different religious and cultural communities in this country, drawing on their experiences and what has been read and experiences in class.
• Explore the natural world around them making observations of animals and plants, environments and seasons, making space for responses of joy, wonder, awe and questioning.

Expressive Arts & Design

Examples of how this is developed in relation to the RE curriculum include:

• Develop artistic and cultural awareness in relation to RE materials in relation to art, music, dance, imaginative play, and role-play and stories to represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings.
• Build their imagination and creativity by exploring and playing with a wide range of media and materials using RE content, responding in a variety of ways to what they see, hear, smell, taste and touch.
• See, hear and participate in a wide range of examples of religious and spiritual expression, developing their creations and explaining the meaning of their work.
• Adapt and recount religious stories inventively, imaginatively and expressively, and sing, perform and learn from well-known songs in RE imaginatively and expressively.