Spirituality Wellbeing

Knowledge Aspect

How do we encourage spirituality?

Myself

• Understanding  I am a unique person
• Have a perception of myself
• Having self-worth
• Having values and beliefs that are my own
• Having self confidence
• Feeling joy, fulfilment, peace, patience, freedom, humility, integrity and creativity
• Having my own identity
• Being able to make decisions and take responsibility
• Feeling joy and celebrating achievements
• Being able to be silent and reflect

• Reflecting on their own beliefs through collective worships and RE activities and lessons. 
• PATHS lessons
• Discussions and conversations in class, with adults and with peers
• Reflection on their own experiences
• Celebrations of success within and outside of the school community
• Through visitors, trips and clubs 
• Half termly values
• Use of Dojos
• Prayer space
• Children are encouraged to speak languages they are confident in and be proud of who they are and where they are from
• Providing children with good role models from all adults in school
• Promoting positive, considerate, kind attitudes by all adults in school
• Yoga and meditation
• Recognising the backgrounds and individual needs of all children in school 
• Behaviour choices and encouraging children to make the right decisions

Others

• Having empathy, concern, compassion and forgiveness for others
• Appreciating and understanding others values, opinions, principles and beliefs
• Caring and nurturing approach to others
• Being able to create inter-personal relationships
• Be able to feel love, hope and trust
• Be able to follow the values of my school community
• Enjoy and engage in celebrations
• See others as feeling thinking beings
• Have an awareness of failure, loss, disappointment, suffering and pain of others

·  Working with and raising money for charities

·  Collective worships

·  Celebration assemblies

·  Curriculum subjects and activities

·  Half termly values

·  Prayer space

·  Community links- project outcomes and links with local groups

·  Creating links with parents to encourage a home/school partnership

·  Children can conduct themselves appropriately amongst each other

·  Discussion of real world events and news

World

• Have awe and wonder about the world
• See the beauty relating to the man-made and natural world
• Have care and consideration towards nature
• Connect with nature
• Value nature and creation
• Be curious and inquisitive about the world around them
• Ask big questions about life
• Have a sense of mystery
• Have an open mindedness to life

• Curriculum; through learning about the world in multiple subject areas
• Collective worships
• Community projects both internal and external (Recycling)
• PATHs discussions
• Links with the Minster
• Real life experiences

Beyond

• Be able to understand meaning outside of everyday life
• Have faith in religion
• Have adoration and worship
• Be at one with the creator
• Have an essence of the universe
• Understand that there is more to life than meets the eye

• Collective worship
• Links with the Minster
• Real life experiences
• Have candles for collective worship (During Hall Collective Worships)
• Prayer
• Reflection

Subject

How do we encourage spirituality across the curriculum?

Maths

• Identifying pattern and creating awe and wonder regarding numbers
• Exploring truth in terms of number
• Perseverance when tackling tricky tasks
• Sense of achievement 
• Creating confident learners 
• Teaching children self-worth and encouraging them to take risks 
• Identifying maths concepts such as time and space

Literacy/Reading

• Understanding the world and others feelings through books and texts
• Developing compassion and understanding of others 
• Understanding emotions through written words
• Having aspirations through inspiration in books and text
• Visiting other worlds through books and text
• Creating and idea of awe and wonder through literature
• Perseverance when writing/reading
• Sense of achievement 
• Creating confident learners through developing reading and class discussions
• Teaching children self-worth and encouraging them to take risks 

Science

• Asking questions about science, religion and the world
• Having an awe and wonder about the various scientific concepts
• Discovering space, the universe and beyond
• Creating links and questions between science and religion
• Perseverance 

ICT

• Awe and wonder of what can be found on the internet
• Joy and excitement of what can be developed and created
• Communication with others and how to take responsibility for themselves online

PE

• Working as a team
• Self-actualisation 
• Caring, encouraging and supporting others
• Participating in sports teams to achieve a bigger goal
• Understanding failure and disappointment as well as success and joy

RE

• Developing a sense of questioning the world around them
• Asking questions about faith and religion on a personal and wider level
• Use of music and art
• Worshipping
• Understanding other cultures, opinions, values and points of views
• Understanding many celebrations and beliefs
• Developing an understanding of commitment and sacrifice 

Creative Learning (DT, ART, Geography, History, fine motor skills, learning through play, music)

• Discovery
• Understanding the beauty in design and the world
• Personal achievement
• Perseverance
• Communication and working with others
• Problem solving
• Understanding how subjects such as art can have an emotional impact on the beholder
• Understanding the world and the way people treat each other in subjects such as history and geography
• Perseverance 
• Resilience 
• Achievement 
• Self-exploration and an understanding of you as an individual 
• Understanding other cultures, opinions, values and points of views
• Understanding of diversity
• Questioning the world and the environment
• Looking at war and peace

Collective Worship

• Prayer
• Reflection
• Sharing collective worship
• Listening to stories 
• Connecting together 
• Sharing a multitude of emotions and feelings
• Empathy 
• Awe and wonder
• Creating questions
• Encouraging self-exploration
• School values

Around the school

• Promoting self-responsibility for behaviour
• Caring for others inside school and on the playground
• Respect
• Kindness
• Thankfulness 
• Manners
• Helpfulness

EYFS

KS1

Lower KS2 (Year 3 & 4)

Upper KS2 (Year 5 & 6)

Myself

·        I can understand what makes me happy, sad, angry and excited

·        I know what I like to do and what things and people mean the most to me

·        I know what I am good at doing 

·        I am growing confidence 

·        I know who I am and where I have come from

·        I am starting to get self-worth and appreciation

·        I know what is right and wrong

·        I am starting to make decisions for my own actions and understanding my responsibilities both inside and outside of school

·        I am understanding that what I enjoy doing has a connection with my happiness

·        I am understanding how to deal with success, failure, disappointment and joy

·        I am understanding I have a plethora of feelings 

·        I understand that I have a options of making right and wrong decisions

·        I am starting to notice what my surroundings are like and how this influences me as a person and my decisions

·        I have started to identify important people who influence me as a person within my life and decide on which type of person I would like to be

·        I understand that love and happiness are important

·        I have started to understand the concept of belief

·        I understand I am a unique person

·        I have developed an understanding of respect for myself and my things

·        I am understanding my identify further, who I am, where I am from, where I am and what I like ae all more important to who I am becoming.

·        I am identifying what makes me happy; people, belongings, success?

·        I have a greater awareness of how I am seen by others and their opinions.

·        I am starting to shape my inner self

·        I am expressing myself and my beliefs through my relationships with others.

·        I can express my opinions well.

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Others

·        I am learning what makes a good friend and that people are important to me

·        I am starting to understand that different people make me feel differently and I enjoy some peoples company more than others.

·        I have a sense of care and responsibility towards my friends and family.

·        I understand that others do not always agree with me and my actions

·        I have an open mind and work well with most people

·        I can enjoy celebrations

·        I understand that some people area treated badly and even bullied and can reflect on my own actions

·        I can show many feelings towards people such as compassion, kindness and helpfulness

·        I can listen to others views

·        I can work well with people from different backgrounds and who have different views

·        I am starting to forgive others for their actions

·        I have started to question why people ignore others when they need help, why people hurt each other and how feelings can be hurt

·        I can understand that people who we do not know need help from others and that this may be my responsibility

·        I have respect for others and their opinions and values

·        I start to understand hope and trust

·  I question selfishness

·  I question the quality of lives for people around the world

·  I am questioning the values of people and the concept of good and bad people

·  I am considering what is important to work for and the idea of fairness 

·  I have a growing empathy for people

·  I understand it is important to make meaningful relationships

·  I can understand the suffering, pain, loss and failure of myself and others

World

·        I have awe and wonder about the world

·        I love to ask questions and investigate new things

·        I understand what I do and don’t like about the world I live in (colours, sounds, weather etc)

·        I know what makes me scared

·        I can react with excitement instantly to things that amaze me

·        I have a sense of mystery

·        I like to ask questions

·        I have an open mindedness to life

·        I can discuss the world in detail and my opinions about it 

·        I can identify things I love and dislike about the world giving reason

·        I can explain what I do to help/damage the world

·        I understand what impact nature has on us

·        I can respond to stimuli and explain my thoughts and feelings

·        I can see beauty relating to man-made and the natural world things

·        I am curious and inquisitive

·  I can ask abstract questions such as How do we know we’ve found all the colours in the world? What season do you feel most reflects your personality What is the difference between hearing and listening? Should we try to tame nature? What does it mean that beauty is in the eye of the beholder? What would it be like without seasons? 

·  I can understand and give meaning to new, exciting, wonderful things 

·  I have care and consideration towards nature

·  I value nature and creation

·        I can ask complex questions such asWhat is a perfect world?

Why is there ugliness in the world?

·        I can give an emotional response to stimuli and begin to articulate this from a personal perspective. 

·        I am developing appreciation that some things don’t have answers.

·        I ask big questions about life and the world

Beyond

·        I ask questions such as  What are the stars for? Why do we have rainbows? How big is the sky? What is the smallest thing there is? Why are people different? What does God look like?

·        I have  the confidence to ask questions that have no answers. 

·        I ask questions such as where is God? What might heaven be like? Is there such a thing as an angel? If you can’t see something, is it still real? What is true happiness? When have you experienced moments of awe and wonder?

·        I have a sense of enjoyment in devising and discussing questions that have no answer.

·        I use imagination to interpret responses to big questions.

·        I have a concept of god

·        I participate in worship

·  I ask unanswerable questions such as what is the purpose of the earth?

Is God alive now?

Why is there illness?

Why do destructive things, like earthquakes, have to happen?

Which is stronger – love or hate? 

Is it good that scientists can’t explain everything?

Why are there religions?

What is beyond the universe?

·        I understand what big questions are.

·        I am able to explain imaginative responses to questions of meaning.

·        I have started to have faith in religion

·        I ask difficult questions such as do we come back after death as a different being?

Is there life after death?

Where do our spirits go when we are dead?

Do we have a soul? If so, what happens to it after death?

Why do we love? What lasts forever?

What is unknowable? What else is there to discover?

How do we know what we don’t know?

What is worth dying for?

·        I can generate big questions.

·        I have begun to express through a personal vocabulary responses to questions of meaning.

·        I have begun to be able to use critical reasoning in responding to a big question

·        I have started to understand the meaning outside of everyday life  

·        I understand  that there is more to life than meets the eye