Greenfield Primary School
Religious Education
Intent:
At Greenfield Primary School, we encourage children to think and ask questions. Throughout Religious Education there are many questions about morals and ethics, which are addressed within the lessons. We integrate British Values throughout RE, ensuring children learn how to respect and tolerate other people’s religions and beliefs. We will focus on developing an awareness of spiritual and moral issues which may arise in children’s lives.
We aim to develop pupils’ understanding of world faiths and other beliefs by exploring their commonality and diversity. There is both depth and breadth of study. The Religious Education curriculum is also about ‘belonging’. It aims to nurture pupils’ awareness of diversity as well as sensitivity to the questions and challenges that different views and cultures can present. We all share a common humanity and we share our view of the world with an understanding of others’ views.
Parents have the right to withdraw their children from any form of Religious Education, including collective worship (1988 Education Reform Act). For further information, please refer to the school's R.E. and Collective Worship Policies.
Implementation:
We follow the scheme PlanBee and we combine the Barnsley Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education to our teaching. The Barnsley Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education aim is to develop knowledge and understanding of Christianity and other major world religions. They focus on developing an awareness of spiritual and moral issues which may arise in children’s lives. We teach RE weekly, ensuring a wide range of topics are being covered to develop children's learning.
Within KS1, LKS2 and UKS2 we use a two-year rolling cycle. In each year children will do three school for
schemes of work comprising of 5 to 7 series of lessons.
In using PlanBee we are ensuring:
- Coverage of National Curriculum objectives
- Creating lessons that are engaging, informative and challenging
- Making sure that lessons are accessible to all learners
Provide complete curriculum coverage from Year 1 to Year 6 for Religious Education.
Focusing on:
Programme of Study for the Barnsley Local Agreed Syllabus:
The Six Key Questions
Why are these words special?
Why are some places special?
How can faith contribute to Community Cohesion?
Why are some times special?
What can be learned from the lives of significant people of faith?
How do I and others feel about life and the universe around us?
Knowledge, Skills and Understanding
Learning about religion: (AT1)
Learning from religion: (AT2)
Embed a consistent approach to teaching and learning across all Religious Education lessons.
knowledge and skills progression documents to highlight progress made in Religious Education across school.
Impact:
The children will enjoy learning about other religions and why people choose, or choose not to follow a religion. Through their R.E. learning, the children are able to make links between their own lives and those of others in their community and in the wider world, developing an understanding of other people’s cultures and ways of life.