Intent
We have two main aims for our RE curriculum:
We strongly believe that human beings are strengthened and empowered by learning from each other. So, through experience and culture, it is possible to explore the opportunities, challenges and purpose of our individual lives and communities.
Engaging and stimulating RE helps to nurture informed and resilient responses to misunderstanding, stereotyping and division. It offers a place in the curriculum where difficult or ‘risky’ questions can be tackled within a safe but challenging context. Our purpose is to give pupils a broad understanding of Christianity, world faiths and nonreligious beliefs. It is essential that the curriculum ensures that there is both depth of study (some areas investigated in detail) and breadth (an overall general understanding of the faiths and related philosophical and ethical questions). Our curriculum nurtures SMSC development and pupils’ understanding of diversity. An RE entitlement means it must aim to help pupils to understand diversity, empathy and cohesion alongside developing their own views and beliefs.
Implementation
Due to our diverse community we deliberately nurture tolerance, respect, empathy and kindness in our school for the benefit of our local community.
To achieve this in our lessons we:
Conclusion
Our curriculum follows the Leeds SACRE closely. We want our children to be able to join secondary school with religious education learning experience that has been rich in language, knowledge, and enquiry skills. Our curriculum deliberately integrates religious studies with aspects of philosophical questions and ethical issues, as well as teaching about religious and world views, and it is our aim that children leaving us will be able to fully engage in their local secondary curriculum.
Our Religious Education Curriculum: