Religious Education
As a Catholic school, our aim is to provide a caring community in which each child has opportunities to deepen their understanding of the Catholic faith and learn and immerse themselves in the fundamentals of Christian belief and teaching.
In partnership with home and parish, we want all within our community to show love and kindness to one and other in their thoughts, words and actions.
How do we do this?
Our Religious Education curriculum is designed to be:
- Creative
- Inspiring
- Challenging
Children have opportunities to develop as independent, resilient, confident and successful learners.
Through the “Learning from” element of every lesson, children are challenged to develop high aspirations and be guided through discussion and reflection to know how they can make a positive contribution to their class, school, community and wider society.
There is a high focus on developing children’s moral, spiritual, social and cultural understanding through “Hearing” , “Believing”, “Celebrating” and “Living” through the knowledge and experiences they gain from our curriculum, other faiths, cultures and backgrounds.
Religious Education is a core subject which is taught for 10% of school’s time tabled week.
To support us in the delivery of RE we follow the Catholic Education Service, Religious Education Directory “To know you more clearly” programme of study so that this meets the diocesan standards for primary Religious Education. We use the Clifton Diocese planning and resources for each topic theme.
We integrate elements of Catholic Social Teaching into our own progression of content and deeply root our school virtue themes into this yearly progression.
Our lessons provide opportunities for celebration, prayer and reflection. Children are taught about God’s love and their Christian responsibility.
There is a high focus on developing children’s moral, spiritual, social and cultural understanding through “Hearing” , “Believing”, “Celebrating” and “Living” through the knowledge and experiences they gain from our curriculum.
Our progressive journey through the curriculum gives children the language of religious experience through activities, stories, symbols, rituals and celebration. It promotes core Gospel values which underpin all aspects of school life.
The children are encouraged to make links with their own experiences and through this explore and explain their own beliefs and values.
The theme for Term 2 is Prophesy and Promise.
We celebrate equality and diversity supporting the children’s social and cultural development, recognising every individual as special and unique in the image and likeness of God. Through this, children are encouraged to also be respectful of and understand the people and traditions linked to other faiths, cultures and backgrounds.