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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Country Support

    Country Support

    Understand the events of a natural disaster and how the school community can provide support to families affected

  • Love and Understanding

    Love and Understanding

    Develop and demonstrate love and understanding for the world community at a local, national and global level

  • World Explorers

    World Explorers

    Practise composing and publishing recounts describing voyages and expeditions to different locations around the world

  • Story Library

    Story Library

    Identify features of different narrative genres to plan and write a story to match the content and structure of one type of writing

  • Space Flight

    Space Flight

    Change and adapt the sequence of events in a narrative story about a journey that happens in a fantasy world

  • Farm Graphs

    Farm Graphs

    Identify and illustrate how to organise information related to different farm topics on a block graph using questions to query the presented data