Religious Education

National Curriculum Statement

Purpose of study

Promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils; and prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

Aims

Pupils should follow a balanced and broadly based curriculum which ‘promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, social, mental and physical development of pupils and of society, and prepares pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life’. Learning about and from religions and beliefs, through the distinct knowledge, understanding and skills contained in RE within a broad-based curriculum, is essential to achieving these aims. Exploring the concepts of religion and belief and their roles in the spiritual, moral and cultural lives of people in a diverse society helps individuals develop moral awareness and social understanding.

PLEASE NOTE THAT PARENTS/CARERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO WITHDRAW THEIR CHILD FROM ALL OR PART OF RE.

Our Intent

By the time our children leave our school, our RE provision will have offered our children an insight into exploring the theological positions of a range of religious practises linked to leading their lives individually and collectively, all within the spiritual atmosphere of Christian love in our church schools.

Living Difference IV RE Syllabus

Living Difference IV is the agreed Syllabus for Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton & the Isle of Wight – please click on the link for a copy of the Syllabus – Living Difference IV

RE entitlement is:

EYFS & KS1 36 hours taught RE from the Living Difference IV syllabus
KS2 45 hours taught RE from the Living Difference IV syllabus.

Progression of Skills

Communicate – children relating their own experience to a religious concept.

Apply – Listening to other’s opinions and relating them to their own experience of the religious concept in different situations.

Enquire – Introducing material of varying complexity prompting the children to reflect collaboratively and becoming more intellectually humble.

Contextualise – Looking at the concept within a specific religious context.

Evaluate – Children are able to summarise their experience of the concept.

Foundation Stage (Year R) children in general will engage with aspects of Christianity and the other religion being explored in Key Stage 1. At Key Stage 1 children are required to study Christianity and one other religion. At Key Stage 2 children are required to study Christianity and two other religions.