Religious Education (RE)
Intent
At Christ Church, all children will become religiously literate. They will show an informed and respectful attitude to religions and non religious worldviews in their search for God and meaning.
Children will become:
• Religiously literate.
• Able to understand that faith influences the lives of people worldwide.
• Able to give a theologically informed and thoughtful account of Christianity as a living and diverse faith.
• To understand that Christianity is the religion that has most shaped British culture and heritage.
• Engage in meaningful and informed dialogue with those of other faiths and none.
• Reflect critically and responsibly on their own spiritual, philosophical and ethical convictions.
Implementation
Our curriculum sets the context for open exploration of religions and beliefs. Pupils can encounter diverse religious traditions alongside non-religious worldviews, presenting a broad and flexible strategy that allows for different traditions.
As they progress through the school, all children will:
• Receive a quality education with a layered learn approach, ensuring that learning is built upon and developed further regularly.
• Experience a vocabulary rich curriculum, broadening the knowledge and terminology the children have as they mature.
• Make sense of beliefs. Identifying and making sense of core religious and non-religious concepts and beliefs. Understanding what these beliefs mean within their traditions; recognising how and why key religious texts are used, expressed and interpreted in different ways, and developing sills of interpretation.
• Making connections. Reason about, reflect on, evaluate and connect concepts, beliefs and practices studied. Allowing pupils to challenge ideas and the ideas to challenge pupils’ thinking, discerning possible connections between these ideas and pupils’ own lives and the ways and understanding the world.
• Understanding the impact. Examining how and why people put their beliefs into action in diverse ways, within their everyday lives, within their communities and in the wider world.
Impact
Our school community can expect a Religious Education curriculum that is rich and varied, enabling learners to acquire a thorough knowledge and understanding of the Christian and other core faiths.
• The children have developed age appropriate religious literacy which generates the ability to critically analyse, make connections and understand the impact of religion on believers’ lives.
• In our school, the deeply Christian foundation will be seen in teaching and learning both in RE and across the curriculum.
• The vision we have for RE in school is that the children will develop spiritually, physically, intellectually, emotionally, morally and socially.
• Children will be respectful and tolerant of the diverse society that shapes modern day Britain.
• The children will have an appreciation of British values, customs and traditions. This will feed into a strong sense of self and a confidence to pursue their own religious identity.
• The children will be mindful and respectful of the diversity that exists within their local community.
• Explore the world, enjoying God’s creation.
• Be stewards of Earth, caring for the world and everything in it.
• Have an understanding of key Christian and other religious festivals, sharing in traditions and customs celebrated both locally and globally.