Milestones for Year 5 Religious Education
Overview for Year 5
Pupils can recognise that some questions cause people to wonder and are difficult to
answer. They are able to share ideas about right and wrong.
Pupils use religious words and phrases to identify some features of religion and its
importance for some people. They begin to show awareness of similarities in religions,
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including key questions raised by believers.
Pupils retell religious stories and suggest meanings for religious actions and symbols.
They identify how religion is expressed in different ways.
Pupils ask, and respond sensitively to, questions about their own and others’ experiences
and feelings. In relation to matters of right and wrong, they can identify their own
values and those of others.
Pupils ask important questions about values, commitments and beliefs, making links
between their own and others’ responses, attitudes and behaviour.
Pupils use a developing religious vocabulary to describe some key features of religions,
recognising similarities and differences. They make links between beliefs, practices and
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sources, including religious stories and sacred texts.
They begin to identify the impact religion has on believers’ lives. They describe some
forms of religious expression.
Pupils identify what influences their values and choices, making links between aspects of
their own and others’ experiences.
Pupils raise, and suggest answers to, questions of identity, belonging, meaning, purpose,
truth, values and commitments, recognising the implications and consequences of making
moral choices.
Pupils use a developing religious vocabulary to describe and show understanding of
sources, practices, beliefs, ideas, feelings and experiences. They make links between
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them, and describe some similarities and differences both within and between religions.
They describe the impact of religion on people’s lives. They explore and explain meanings
for a range of forms of religious expression.
They apply their ideas about identity and commitment to their own and other people’s
lives. They describe what inspires and influences themselves and others, especially their
commitments, values and choices.
Year 5 Autumn Term 1 - Milestones
What does it mean to ‘Love your Neighbour’?
By the end of this topic, pupils should be able to:
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Mention key moments in William Booth’s life; explaining what he did and
when.
Give reasons for his actions and choices
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Use some basic religious vocabulary in your answer
Explain religious reasons for his actions and choices
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Give 2 examples of how William Booth put Jesus’ teachings into practice?
Year 5 Spring 1
Why do Jews celebrate Pesach?
By the end of this topic, pupils should be able to:
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What is Pesach
and why do
Jews celebrate
it?
How do Jews
celebrate
Pesach?
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write some facts about
the Jewish festival of
Pesach.
write about the Jewish
festival of Pesach using
key religious words.
write some facts about
special objects that are
used by Jews.
write about what some
Jewish objects are
used for.
write about some of the
things Jewish people do.
write about what some
Jewish people do
during the festival of
Pesach.
describe the Jewish
festival of Pesach
accurately using key
religious words.
describe the religious
significance of some
Jewish objects used
during this festival.
describe what some
Jewish people do
during the festival of
Pesach and explain why.
point out things which
are the same and some
things that are
different between
religions.
Year 5 Summer
What does it mean to be a Muslim?
By the end of this topic, pupils should be able to:
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Expected
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give a similarity between
Christianity, Judaism and
Islam.
identify some similarities
between Christianity,
Judaism and Islam.
know that Muslims believe in
Allah and that they have 99
names for him.
know that Muslims believe in
Allah and why the Quran has
99 names for him, each
describing his nature.
explain some of the
similarities between
Christianity, Judaism and
Islam with examples.
describe the meaning of one
of the names of Allah to a
Muslim.
know the religion of Islam
originated.
locate the origin of Islam on
a map.
describe some key events in
the Life of Muhammad.
know that Muslims read the
Quran.
understand that Muslims
receive guidance in living
their lives from the Qu’ran.
describe the impact the
Qu’ran has on the lives of
Muslims with examples.