RE
New Waltham Academy Pupil Voice
RE
We value our pupil’s voice at New Waltham Academy and have now held our first Pupil Voice afternoon. As RE lead, I had a group of 28 children formed from Early Years to Year 6 for the children to share their thoughts and feelings with each other as well as myself.
February 2023
Thoughts on RE):
‘I like learning about other religions.’
‘Like learning about God.’
‘Tricky’
‘Like learning about different celebrations’
‘Interesting’
‘It’s hard’
Things the children would like more of:
‘I want to learn more about Jesus’
‘Different types of prayer’
‘More about Christians and Christmas’
Christmas
Crafts - such as making Christingles, advent wreaths
Visits – to a place of worship
First, we discussed the question 'What is RE?' and we collected our thoughts and ideas. We gathered these together by working collaboratively and created a word cloud using all of the words that we associate with RE. These ideas are displayed below:
