Religious Education
RE Curriculum Statement
Intent
The teaching of RE supports children in developing their own identity and to value their culture and the cultures of others. It is a key component in guiding morality and enabling young people to grow into active and responsible members of the community. Lessons offer a broad and balanced RE curriculum and allow children to explore religions, their community, personal development and wellbeing. Through each unit of inquiry, children will know about and understand a range of religions and world views.
At Bearsted Primary Academy, our aim is to ensure our children develop a wide range of transferable skills and knowledge that will benefit them across the curriculum and into their daily lives. We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Our children are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community. Our RE curriculum and wider provision will ensure that children will be equipped to support their decision making in regards to their knowledge of other religions. Children will start their journey treating each other with kindness and respect.
Our curriuclum ensures the folloing:
Pupils develop understanding of concepts and mastery of skills to make sense of religion and belief, at an appropriate level of challenge for their age.
RE curriculum provides opportunities for pupils to develop positive attitudes and values and to reflect and relate their learning in RE to their own experience.
Building on the statutory requirements, there is a wide ranging study of religion and belief across the key stages as a whole.
All religions are studied should be studied in a way that is coherent and promotes progression.
Pupils have the opportunity to learn that there are those who do not hold religious beliefs and have their own philosophical perspectives, and subject matter facilitates integration and promotion of shared values.
The study of religion is based on the legal requirements and provide an appropriate balance between and within Christianity, other principal religions, and, where appropriate other religious traditions and worldviews, across the key stages as a whole, making appropriate links with other parts of the curriculum and its cross-curricular dimensions.
Implementation
The teaching and implementation of the RE Curriculum is based on the KENT SACRE Agreed Syllabus (2017-2022) and underpins the Primary Years Programme Framework. Knowledge is taught discreetly and, when appropriate, is taught using an interdisciplinary approach.
The teaching of skills is progressive and is delivered through inquiry led, open-ended learning that encourages questioning, making comparisons, explaining, expressing, discussing, exploring religious stories and vocabulary, developing insight, knowledge, empathy and respect.
Key festivals and celebrations of different faiths are explored and understood by all pupils in the academy.
Impact
The RE curriculum will promote inquisitive minds, respect, tolerance and understanding for all those around them including themselves. High quality learning will be undertaken and evidenced, showcasing a deep understanding of the main religions of the world, their community and their future.
The progressive teaching of RE skills will enable children to know and understand about a range of religions and worldviews, express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religions and world views and gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with them. Religious Education fulfils a vital role within the curriculum and is relevant to all pupils, regardless of their religious (or non- religious) background. It introduces them to a world beyond their own experience of culture and belief, enabling them to make links between their own lives and that of those in their community and in the wider world, developing an understanding of other people’s cultures, reasons for being and ways of life
RE Curriculum Map (Long term plan over the year) Below
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