‘Developing an awareness and understanding of religious beliefs’

Subject Leader : Miss E Adams

At Fairburn View Primary School our Religious Education curriculum is derived from Wakefield Council’s locally agreed syllabus. Our aim is to use RE to teach our children to answer and explore the big questions in life whilst learning about the different religious peoples that make up our community and wider world. We encourage diversity and celebrate the difference of a range of cultures and endeavour to teach acceptance and grace to our pupils

We encourage our children to reflect within themselves about their values and beliefs, whilst recognising that everybody has a right to their own belief system and faith.

Through our teaching of RE, our pupils benefit from opportunities to enhance their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Our RE curriculum covers key questions – these are our learning themes – which cover the three strands of RE: believing, expressing and living. Each year group has at least one question from each strand per half-term. As per the locally-agreed syllabus provided by the SACRE, we then explore a range of religious and non-religious views within the study of these key questions.

Through the teaching of RE at our school, our pupils will:

• Develop a good understanding of Christianity and other key religions as well as explore views of non-religious peoples.
• Reflect on their experiences of their life and have clarity in things they have experienced
• Develop an awareness of fundamental questions about life and have knowledge of how some religions try to answer these questions
• Develop an awareness of ‘self’ and be able to think about their views and opinions on life’s fundamental questions
• Recognise the right to a person’s beliefs and faiths and be able to celebrate that diversity
• Benefit from the spiritual and moral opportunities that arise from RE discussions in class

We must inform parents and carers that they have the right to withdraw their child from some or all of religious education classes.

Religious education in local-authority-maintained schools