At Dore Primary School, our children receive high-quality RE lessons that enable them to grow up to be healthy, kind, responsible and independent members of society with an awareness of those with a faith and what spirituality means to them. We aim to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, and to tackle many of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up locally, nationally and globally.
We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Our children are able to understand and empathise with those who have a faith, and have the skills necessary to support each other as they grow up in a diverse, changing world. We want them to feel confident in their sense of self, to understand who they are, what makes them special and the importance of celebrating the differences between each other. We want them to feel empowered to navigate their way through life being able to manage the various risks that they will face, with knowledge, confidence and resilience. Throughout this journey, we want them to make choices that keep themselves and others safe, and know what to do and who they can go to if they ever need help or support.
We use Discovery RE Scheme of Work to teach discrete RE lessons at Dore Primary School. This scheme uses an enquiry-based approach which also links to the statutory RE required in the Sheffield Curriculum “Enquiring Minds”. The scheme is a progressive and sequential programme building on the skills and learning intentions in each year group. Our learning also links to our school expectations and values, the Early Years Development Matters Document in FS2, SMSC opportunities, British Values (Democracy, Rule of Law, individual Liberty, Mutual Respect, Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs) and skills and attitudes to enquiry-based learning. We work with our local community by visiting different places of worship. We have opportunities to visit Christ Church Dore, Madinah Mosque and Sheffield Cathedral to link with our units of work. We welcome visitors to school where this links to learning.
Through the development of our values led teaching we are always looking out for opportunities to celebrate diversity and to show respect and understanding to those with or without a faith or belief in a religion.
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RE News:
- Y4 Oakes Residential Day Two
After EVERY child had a good night’s sleep, we’ve had another great day of action-packed activity at the Oakes. The photos tell their own story… - Year 4 Oakes Residential Day One
Day One of our residential has so far been a tremendous success. As you can see from the photos below, it has been a non-stop day, with lots of fantastic activities on offer. Lunch and dinner have also gone down very well! As always, the Oakes leaders have been their usual caring, helpful and cheerful … Read more - Outdoor Art – Mandalas
This wonderful outdoor art was created as part of the Year 3 ‘How does your garden grow?’ learning journey. We were partly inspired by the buddist monks who grind up rocks to make their mandalas over 60 hours. We just worked in TASC groups to construct art works using the natural resources from our lovely … Read more - Love your burial ground Year 3 plant survey
As part of ‘Love your burial ground week’ and the start of our ‘How does your garden grow’ learning journey, Year 3 visited Dore Church to make a botanical survey of the plants growing there. We found all sorts of species of grass, flowers and trees in this unique habitat. We also made some sketches and … Read more - Pre-School Spring 2 Week 3
We have been learning about Holi, the Hindu festival of colour. We had great fun throwing powder paints at a sheet and generally getting messy with paints, exploring what happened when we added water to it. We also painted rangoli patterns and danced with streamers. We’ve been learning about 2D shapes. Playing in the snow … Read more - Y3 Visit to Dore Church and The Village Greens Grocers
To celebrate the end of term and the Christmas season Year 3 visited Dore Church and The Village Greens Grocers. The trip also helped use with out Religious Education question ‘Has Christmas lost its true meaning?’ The Church look fabulously decorated ready for Christmas and the children enjoyed finding out about these Christian traditions. We … Read more - Y4 RE – Christ Church Visit
As part of our RE unit of Christianity, Y4 were invited to visit Christ Church in the village. As well as seeing inside the church, we learned about some Christian beliefs, and reminded ourselves of the Nativity story. Back in school we created Christingles from oranges, ribbon, candles and sweets on cocktail sticks. For Christians … Read more - Y4 Buddhism Visitor
This week Y4 were visited by Srivati from The Still Living Buddhist Centre in Walkley. She added to our learning so far about Buddhism, reminding us of the story of the Buddha, along with many aspects of the daily life of Buddhists. We finished with a non-denominational meditation session, that you can see from the … Read more - Being Detectives and Working Together
In Science this week the children became detectives and had to use their observational skills to figure out which type of animal we are going to be learning about over the coming weeks. There were lots of clues to investigate – I wonder if any of the children can tell their grown ups which animal … Read more - Y1 – Art / RE
The children listened to the Christian parable of The Lost Sheep and thought about the moral of the story. They then made their own paper plate sheep using card and cotton wool ! - Y1 – RE / Computing
Today, we listened to the Christian story of ’The Good Samaritan’. We thought about Jesus’ message to love thy neighbour and who our neighbours are. The children then used the Activ inspire app on the laptops to label different characters from the story with key adjectives. Through this activity, the children were able to practise … Read more - Y1 – RE
Today in our RE lesson the children listened to the story, ’Whoever you are’ by Mem Fox. We discussed what the message behind the story was and then used this learning to help us sort some key words into a venn diagram to see if they are experienced by all people or are different. - Y4 Oakes Residential Day Three
Day Two ended with campfire, with a sing-a-long and hot chocolate. Day Three began with FOUR birthday celebrations, then continued with several games and activities. As I write, children are on their final game, before they have some free time to finish off an amazing three days. Our thanks go to all the staff at … Read more - Y4 Oakes Residential Day Two
Today has seen more endeavour from our amazing Y4s. As everyone had a great night’s sleep, we’ve seen full participation in all the activities again. Our RE learning today has been about finding out more about what Christians believe Jesus’ life was like. We’ve got campfire coming up soon, so will post the photos from … Read more - Y4 Oakes Residential Day One
Our first day at the Oakes has been fantastic! The children have, of course been amazing and have given every single challenge and activity their very best efforts. The weather (and the food!) have been kind to us, and as always the Oakes team leaders have been exceptional. As part of our RE learning, children … Read more