Religious Education
Our school ethos and vision are shared by our school community regardless of faith or beliefs, with the children speaking confidently of the need to “Love your neighbour as yourself”. This is also reflected in our teaching of RE across the school.
How is RE taught at our school?
From September 2023, our school will be following the new Manchester Diocese Religious Education Syllabus for 2023-28. The syllabus reinforces the importance of RE as an academic discipline. It will enable understanding of concepts and the development of skills and attitudes so that our pupils can explore wider issues of religion and belief in religiously literate ways. The syllabus offers an inclusive education to all our young people, whatever their personal worldviews might be. This syllabus prepares the children and young people of our area for active citizenship in a diverse and rapidly changing world, exploring some aspects of British values in relation to religions and world views.
This new syllabus has been developed on behalf of the Manchester Diocesan Board of Education (MDBE) by RE Today for all Voluntary Aided Church of England schools across the diocese. It recognises our local communities and region as vibrant and unique, with much diversity of religion and belief. The population includes very large communities of tens of thousands of Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jewish people and Sikhs and smaller groups of other significant faith communities including Jains, Buddhists and members of the Baha’i faith. Many children come from families that hold nonreligious worldviews. RE taught using this syllabus allows all learners to share their experiences and to learn from one another and the religions and beliefs in our community. This rich diversity influences the religions and beliefs to be taught in religious education.
This syllabus also makes space for all pupils to explore their own positions with regard to religion and worldviews, and those of others in engaged and engaging ways. RE taught using the new RE Agreed Syllabus aims to support children to develop positive attitudes of respect towards people from all religions and worldviews. This syllabus continues in the tradition of ensuring that RE is responsive to the changing nature of schools and education. The syllabus enables schools to respond effectively to the Ofsted Framework for Inspection which requires schools to ‘...ensure high standards of achievement, learning and behaviour for their pupils, as well as contributing to their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development’. The review of the syllabus has paid attention to sequencing the curriculum to enable pupils to know more and remember more, and to deploy a rich knowledge of religions effectively. It is a curriculum of ambition for RE.
How is RE taught at our school?
From September 2023, our school will be following the new Manchester Diocese Religious Education Syllabus for 2023-28. The syllabus reinforces the importance of RE as an academic discipline. It will enable understanding of concepts and the development of skills and attitudes so that our pupils can explore wider issues of religion and belief in religiously literate ways. The syllabus offers an inclusive education to all our young people, whatever their personal worldviews might be. This syllabus prepares the children and young people of our area for active citizenship in a diverse and rapidly changing world, exploring some aspects of British values in relation to religions and world views.
This new syllabus has been developed on behalf of the Manchester Diocesan Board of Education (MDBE) by RE Today for all Voluntary Aided Church of England schools across the diocese. It recognises our local communities and region as vibrant and unique, with much diversity of religion and belief. The population includes very large communities of tens of thousands of Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jewish people and Sikhs and smaller groups of other significant faith communities including Jains, Buddhists and members of the Baha’i faith. Many children come from families that hold nonreligious worldviews. RE taught using this syllabus allows all learners to share their experiences and to learn from one another and the religions and beliefs in our community. This rich diversity influences the religions and beliefs to be taught in religious education.
This syllabus also makes space for all pupils to explore their own positions with regard to religion and worldviews, and those of others in engaged and engaging ways. RE taught using the new RE Agreed Syllabus aims to support children to develop positive attitudes of respect towards people from all religions and worldviews. This syllabus continues in the tradition of ensuring that RE is responsive to the changing nature of schools and education. The syllabus enables schools to respond effectively to the Ofsted Framework for Inspection which requires schools to ‘...ensure high standards of achievement, learning and behaviour for their pupils, as well as contributing to their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development’. The review of the syllabus has paid attention to sequencing the curriculum to enable pupils to know more and remember more, and to deploy a rich knowledge of religions effectively. It is a curriculum of ambition for RE.
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The Aims of RE The threefold aim of RE elaborates the principal aim. The curriculum for RE aims to ensure that all pupils: 1. Know about and understand a range of religious and non-religious worldviews , so that they can:
2. Express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religious and non-religious worldviews, so that they can:
3. Gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with religious and non-religious worldviews, so that they can:
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INTENT
RE explores big questions about life, in order to find out what people believe and what difference this makes to how they live, so that pupils can make sense of religion and worldviews, and reflect on their own ideas and ways of living. IMPLEMENTATION This agreed syllabus requires that all pupils study Christianity in each key stage. In addition, pupils will study the principal religions represented in the UK, in line with the law. These are Islam, Hindu dharma, Sikhi, Buddhism and Judaism. Furthermore, children from families where non-religious worldviews are held are represented in almost all our classrooms. Non-religious worldviews, including ‘organised’ examples such as Humanism, will also be the focus for study. 
CURRICULUM DESIGN Our RE curriculum is structured so that it:
O Thou kind Lord! Unite all. Let the religions agree and make the nations one, so that they may see each other as one family and the whole earth as one home. May they all live together in perfect harmony. O God! - Bahá’u’lláh | ||
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"I really enjoy RE as we study religions which reflect the religions in our class so we have some really good discussions." - Year 6 pupil, 2024
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Parents have the right to withdraw their children wholly or partly, from RE. Please contact the school if you would like to discuss this further.