Religious Education
Vision
Across the school we aim to develop children’s skills of enquiry, reasoned argument and reflection. We are a multi-faith school and offer a rich and varied curriculum to reflect this. We believe children learn best from real experiences in order to capture their imaginations and encourage curiosity.
We try to enhance our curriculum in many ways to ensure this is how children learn and respectdifferent religions. The whole school ethos is to encourage children enquire and ask questions in order to impact on their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. During religious education lessons, children are challenged to push themselves to think outside of their comfort zones and explore their skills, beliefs and ideas; asking questions at all times whilst experiencing practical lessons.
Intent
All pupils should Know about and understand a range of religions and worldviews; Express ideas and insights about the nature significance and impact of religions and worldviews; Gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with religions and world views. Children are taught about a range of religions and learn to respect and ask questions about different religions, traditions and cultures around the world. Across the school year we aim to make R.E relevant by studying and celebrating real events, from holding a whole school Diwali day, learning about various aspects of the Hindi culture to celebrate with our community in this special occasion to looking at Saints days in assemblies or exploring real artefacts from a focused religion during lessons.
The principal aim of our religious education is to:
- Enable pupils to understand and reflect upon the religious and spiritual beliefs, practices, insights and experiences that are expressed in humanity’s search for meaning in life;
- Provide opportunities for pupils to explore and express their own responses and personal beliefs.
