Teaching Ideas for Religious Education

Classroom teaching ideas and lesson planning advice to support busy primary school teachers in Key Stages One and Two and the Foundation Stage. Discover a fantastic range of primary resources to excite and inspire pupils on different topics and themes for religious education.

  • Class Review

    Class Review

    Evaluate progress and achievement over the past school year and select targets for improvement in the autumn term

  • Topic Launches

    Topic Launches

    Select and utilise effective ways of launching a new curriculum topic covering a range of subjects in the classroom

  • Topic Tree

    Topic Tree

    Demonstrate prior understanding of a new classroom topic and identify questions for further research

  • Easter Garden

    Easter Garden

    Build a garden area in the school grounds to display some artwork of eggs, crosses and flowers to celebrate Easter

  • Easter Gospels

    Easter Gospels

    Use art and design and literacy skills to understand and illustrate the sequence of events surrounding the Easter story

  • Lent Temptations

    Lent Temptations

    Use the period between Shrove Tuesday and Easter to introduce the class to a range of themes illustrating what happened to Jesus when he was tempted by devil in the desert

  • Pancake Party

    Pancake Party

    Investigate the meaning behind Shrove Tuesday and celebrate pancakes in different curriculum subjects and lessons

  • Nativity Play

    Nativity Play

    Organise and rehearse a performance of the nativity story from the Bible for a special Christmas assembly

  • Class Assembly

    Class Assembly

    Hold an assembly in the classroom on different themes, topics and stories to support spiritual and emotional development

  • Prayers for Peace

    Prayers for Peace

    Compose individual and group prayers to reflect on different ways of resolving conflicts relating to either personal or global issues

  • World Worries

    World Worries

    Develop and implement a number of techniques to understand and react to unsettling and troubling events in the world

  • Community Links

    Community Links

    Explore how to establish and build strong links in the local community to support learning across the curriculum

  • Length Calculations

    Length Calculations

    Practise using number calculations skills for addition, subtraction, division and multiplication when solving problems related to length measurements

  • Maths Calculations Assessment

    Maths Calculations Assessment

    Assess abilities in solving a range of different number problems for addition and subtraction when working with informal and formal written calculations

  • Money Coin Sums

    Money Coin Sums

    Practise identifying, combining and recording sets of coins that can make matching sums that can be used when shopping for different products

  • Maths Number Assessment

    Maths Number Assessment

    Assess abilities in working with numbers to solve abstract and contextual problems when calculating sums, products and quotients using different techniques and methods