RE
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 world views and reflect on their own ideas and ways of living.
At Oakthorpe Primary School, we use the Enfield Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education, prepared by the Enfield SACRE (Standard Advisory Council on Religious Education), as the basis of our planning and delivery of RE. This was updated in September 2023.
In this syllabus, units are based around the three strands of Believing, Expressing and Living. Each strand is broken down into ‘threads’, so that concepts and learning is revisited to ensure children’s knowledge is built upon year on year. Each unit explores a key big question that seeks to enable children to develop their understanding and skills.
Religious Education provokes challenging questions about the ultimate meaning and purpose of life, beliefs, the self and the nature of reality, issues of right and wrong and what it means to be human. It develops pupils’ awareness, knowledge and understanding of world faiths, religious traditions and world views.
Religious Education has an important role to play in preparing pupils for adult life. It encourages pupils to develop their sense of identity and belonging. It enables them to develop individually, within their communities, as members of a diverse society and as global citizens
Religious Education enables pupils to develop respect for and sensitivity to others, in particular those whose faiths, beliefs and world views are different from their own. As such, RE is a necessary part of a broad and balanced curriculum.
The aims of our curriculum:
- Know about and understand a range of religious and non-religious worldviews.
- Express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religious and non-religious worldviews.
- Gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with religious and non-religious worldviews. .
Principle of RE
The principle aim of RE is to engage pupils in systematic enquiry into significant human questions which religious and worldview addresses, so that they can develop the understanding and skills needed to appreciate and appraise varied responses to these questions, as well as develop responses of their own.