SUBJECT LEAD: MR CROFT
"We may have different religions,
different languages, different coloured skin,
but we all belong to one human race."
Kofi Annan
INTENT
Religious Education (RE) is a foundation subject required by the National Curriculum and planned for by Local Authorities. At Manor Primary school, we believe that it is important for all our pupils to learn from and about religion, so that they can understand the diverse world around them. We facilitate opportunities for our children to develop their knowledge and understanding of the major world faiths, and address fundamental questions concerning life to appreciate the way that religious beliefs shape life and behaviour for many people in our community and wider world.
Children are challenged to reflect on what it means to have a faith and to develop their own spiritual knowledge and understanding as they develop the ability to make reasoned and informed judgments about religious and moral issues and enhance their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
RE is taught throughout the school in such a way as to reflect our overall aims, values, and philosophy. It plays an important role, along with all other curriculum areas, particularly PSHE, in promoting social awareness and understanding in our children.
We encourage our pupils to ask questions about the world and to reflect on their own beliefs, values and experiences. We include and promote British values, ensuring that children aware of their rights and responsibilities as UK citizens. Our curriculum is designed to encourage creatively, imagination, enquiry, debate, discussion and independence in order to crate a wider tolerance and understanding of all people.
What you will see in a Manor Primary School Religious Education (RE) Lesson;
IMPLEMENTATION
We will achieve this objective though focused, weekly timetabled, creative exploration and discussion based lessons. This is then enriched discreetly across the school day and in every aspect of school life including our planned collective worship assemblies delivered by local religious leaders, including our local vicar. This facilitates pupil's opportunities to understand and respect their personal spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, whilst gaining relevant learning experience to embrace, defend and navigate the religiously diverse society in which they live in. This programme is designed to sensitively meet the needs of our pupils.
We will develop children’s awareness of spiritual and moral issues arising in their lives, inform their understanding of religious traditions, and an appreciation of cultural differences in the UK today, enhance their investigative and research skills, in order to hold reasoned opinions on religious issues and nurture their respect for other people’s views to celebrate diversity in society.
We value the religious background of all members of the school community and celebrate opportunities where individuals share their own experiences with others to personalise and enhance teaching and learning at Manor Primary. All religious and their communities are treated with respect and sensitivity and we value the links, which are, and can be made between home, school and faith communities. We acknowledge that each religion studied can contribute to the education of all our pupils. We promote teaching in RE that stresses open enquiry and first-hand experiences wherever possible for both staff and children. Religious festivals and stories are celebrated throughout the year during assemblies and visitors invited into school and we seek every opportunity to conduct school visits to our local church to celebrate major religious festivals.
Across all Key Stages, pupils will be supported with developing the following skills:
Here is a Year group breakdown of religious focuses that we cover throughout our RE scheme:
IMPACT
The impact of our RE whole school approach will foster;
MEASURING IMPACT
At Manor we celebrate the creative, expressive, nontangible elements of such a broad and all-encompassing subject therefore we will measure RE impact through:
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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