Scholes Junior and Infant School
RE Vocabulary Progression
Theme: General
Reception home, family, school, community, religion, culture, similarities and differences, charity, good manners, rules, friends, creation, responsibility, nature, caring for the world, festivals
Year 1
caring, organization, charity, fundraising, holy, moral, special, belong, symbols, special, place of worship, similar, different, compare, contrast, community, special occasions, ritual, prayer, praying, celebration, festival, family, promises, parents, ritual, prayer, belief, faith, trust, choice, forgive, promise
Year 2 choices, influences, consequences, rules, guidelines, fables, moral, values, similar, different, prayer, reflection, faith, symbols, created, natural, wonderful, world, stewardship, responsibility, recycle, reuse, environment, creation
Year 3 prayer, belief, worship, questions, mysteries, symbols, divine, spirituality, music, art, dance, poetry, calligraphy, arts, beliefs, symbols, stories, symbol, moral, forgiveness, reconciliation, jealousy, repentance, humility, caring, loving, love, right, wrong, creation, creator, responsibility, interpretation, campaign, divine being, leader, qualities, characteristics, inspiration, inspirational, messenger of God,
Year 4 freedom, oppression, interpretation, celebration, shared values, remembrance, reflection, liberation, light, belief, selflessness, representation, community, faith, believer, denominations, artefacts, features, place of worship,
Year 5 journey, responsibility, belief, pilgrimage, reflection, faith, choice, good and bad, right and wrong, morality, values, consequences, forgiveness, reconciliation, penitence, repentance, redemption, confession, conflict, reconciling, forgiving, grudge, revenge, conflict resolution, Abrahamic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam)
Year 6 Rites of passage, right, responsibilities, growing up, adulthood, promises,
Theme: Christianity
Reception church, Harvest, Advent and Christmas, Lent/Easter, disciples, God
Year 1 Bible, church, communion, altar, cross, lectern, pulpit, Bible, seating, font, statues and art, organ, Harvest, godparents, sponsors, baptism, font, parable, Bible, Christian, Jesus, God, Old Testament, word of God, Noah, patriarch, son of God
Year 2 The Ten Commandments, parable, Jesus, Moses, Christian, God, Christ, gospel, disciple, baptism, crucifixion, resurrection, covenant
Year 3 psalms and hymns, Christianity, The Bible, Old Testament, New Testament, parable, neighbour, Jesus, Christianity, Christians
Year 4 church
Year 5
Year 6
Christians, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Red Sea, love, forgiveness, peace between people and God, honesty, prayer, worship, fellowship, crucifixion, gospel, New Testament, confession, Jesus, Catholic, priest, Old Testament, New testament, incarnation, salvation, gospels, messiah, son of man, son of God, eternal, covenant, The Ten Commandments, Moses, Exodus, Egypt,
ascension, communion, crucifixion, easter, forgiveness, gospel, incarnation, Jesus, Kingdom of Heaven, gospels, Palm Sunday, reconciliation, resurrection, ritual, sacrifice, salvation, confirmation, baptism
Theme: Islam
Reception mosque, Ramadan/Eid, Allah
Year 1
Year 2
Qur’an, mosque, prayer, mat, prayer beads, head covering, ablution area, prayer hall, mihrab, mosaics, imam, wudu, Eid, Ramadan, fasting, aqiqah, adhan, Muslim, Prophet Muhammed (PBUH), Prophet Musa (Moses)
The Five Pillars of Islam: Shahadah, Salah, Zakat, Sawm, Hajj, Allah, mosque, wudu, Muslim, imam, Jum’ah (Friday prayers), Makkah
Year 3 Islam, Allah, Muslim, Prophet, Muhammed (pbuh),
Year 4 mosque, Allah, Prophet Muhammed (pbuh), Qur’an, Hadith, Shahadah, Salaah, Sawm, Ramadhaan, Zakaah, Hajj, Mecca/Makkah, Akhirah, Sunnah, Shari’ah, Eid ul Fitr, Eid ul Adha, Qiblah, Sadaqah, Wudhu, ablution,
Year 5 Islam, Muslim, Makkah, sacrifices, Hajj, Ummah – community, forgiveness, honesty, prayer, charity, Hadiths
Year 6
Theme: Judaism
Reception Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Hannukah, Pesach, Year 1 Jonah, Daniel, command, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph
Year 2
Year 3
Moses, Abraham, Exodus, Hebrew, covenant, Torah, ark, Shabbat/Sabbath, Passover/Pesach, Mezuzah, kosher, seder, tallit, synagogue, bimah, Jewish, Genesis, Jews, Judaism
Year 4 Hannukah, menorah, hannukiah, Maccabees, Antichus, Jews, God, synagogue
Year 5 Judaism, Jewish, Western Wall, Jerusalem the Gold, Amidah, Tikkun Olam, ‘healing the world’, rabbi, Torah, Hebrew, Year 6
Theme: Sikhism
Reception Vaisakhi
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Mool Mantar, Mudras, Sufi, Sikh, Waheguru, Year 4
Sikh, Guru Hargobind, Bandi Chor Divas, gurdwara, Mool (Mul) Mantar, Panjab, Guru Nanka, Guru Gobind Singh, Guru Granth Sahib, guru, Khalsa, Amristar, Ikk Oankar, Enlightenment, Gurdwara
Year 5 ‘Oneness with God’, Sikhism, meditation, Amritsar, Year 6
Guru Gobind Singh, Guru Granth Sahib, Khalsa, Amrit, Baptism, Sewa, Langar, The 5 Ks (Kesh – uncut hair, Kangha – comb, Kara – wrist band, Kachera – short trousers, Kirpan – sword), Khanda symbol, bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah
Theme: Hinduism
Reception Diwali, Holi
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4 Hindu(s), Diwali, Rama, Sita, Ayodhya, diva lamps
Year 5
Year 6
Theme: Other faiths & belief systems
Reception the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mardi Gras/Rio Carnival, Chinese New Year
Year 1 birthday
Year 2 Aesop
Year 3
Year 4 solstices, Pagans,
Year 5 Humanism: honesty, integrity, love for the truth, personal responsibility, reciprocity, atheism
Year 6