What is the intent of our RE curriculum?

Religion and Worldviews is an academic subject that has a high profile in our school curriculum. Through careful planning, we aim for all of our pupils to Love their learning enabling them to flourish. Religion and Worldviews is a priority for senior leaders, who ensure that the teaching, learning and resourcing of Religion and Worldviews is comparable with other curriculum subjects.

This means that the Religion and Worldviews curriculum:

• is intrinsic to the outworking of our distinctive Christian vision, that we love to learn, learn to love understanding we are all different but equal, which enables all pupils to flourish. In addition, it contributes to British values and to pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
• is delivered in an objective, critical and pluralistic manner to engage and challenge all pupils through an exploration of core concepts and questions. Lessons provide meaningful and informed dialogue with a range of religions and worldviews.
• reflects a good balance between the disciplines of theology, philosophy and human science, to enable pupils to develop their religious literacy*

*Religious Literacy: Helping children and young people hold balanced and well-informed conversations about religion and belief. (Key Principles of a balanced curriculum in RE.)

• enables pupils to acquire a rich, deep knowledge and understanding of Christian belief and practice, including the ways in which it is unique and diverse, whilst engaging with biblical texts and theological ideas.
• provides opportunities for pupils to understand the role of foundational texts, beliefs, rituals, and practices and how they help to form identity in a range of religions and worldviews.
• supports the development of other curriculum areas and other general educational abilities such as literacy, empathy and the ability to express thoughts, feelings and personal beliefs.
• encompasses the full range of abilities to ensure that all flourish academically, using a wide range of teaching and learning strategies which consider the task, outcome, resource, support and pupil grouping as appropriate to pupils’ needs.
• offers tasks that are age appropriate, challenging and sufficiently demanding to stimulate and engage all pupils, whilst extending the most able and providing support for those who need it.
• reflects are school values of Love, Friendship, Perseverance and Trust to ensure that all pupils’ contributions are valued in Religion and Worldviews as they draw on their own experiences and beliefs