Intent

Religious Education has a significant role for the development of our children’s spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural development. Our aim is to give all our children a balanced view of a multi-faith society to promote respect, open-mindedness towards others with different faiths and beliefs and encourage pupils to develop their own sense of identify and belonging through self-awareness and reflection. The teaching of RE at Skelton is practical and enquiry based, allowing the children to develop an understanding and appreciation, of the expression of beliefs and cultural practices of the wider global community. By Year 6, our goal is to equip our pupils in a way that they can play a respectful and purposeful role in our society. We provoke challenging questions about the ultimate meaning and purpose of life, beliefs about God, the self and the nature of reality, issues of right and wrong and what it means to be human. We challenge pupils to reflect on, consider, analyse, interpret and evaluate issues of truth, belief, faith and ethics and to communicate their responses.

As a school, we hope to:

• Create a supportive and nurturing environment where pupils feel safe and have clear behaviour expectations
• Help children to understand and manage their emotions and feelings
• Children to be open to sharing their worries or concerns
• Ensure children feel self-worth and self-esteem to contribute to discussions and know that they are appreciated
• Encourage children’s uniqueness
• Develop children’s emotional resilience
• To treat others with fairness and respect
• To be independent and make choices and understand personal freedom

Implementation

Organisation

RE is taught weekly at Skelton Primary School and we followed the Redcar and Cleveland agreed syllabus. All teachers have access to the NATRE website that hold resources for the teaching of the curriculum.

Each half term, teacher’s plan a weekly lesson of Religious Education teaching that links directly to the learning pathway to develop knowledge and appreciation of their own and other faith religions and traditions and non-religious belief traditions. The progression through school builds on their knowledge each year and ensures that by the end of Year 6, the children are equipped with systematic knowledge and understanding of religions and world views, enabling them to identify their ideas, values and identities.

Key Principles

The curriculum is organized into five concepts, God, Incarnation, Salvation, Creation and Gospel.

Key content and concepts are revisited and reviewed to build a deepen knowledge.

Impact

In order to effectively design tasks it is imperative that the classroom teacher understands fully the success that pupils have had with their learning. We use our purpose built App to track skills progress across Religious Education.

It is worth noting that we define success in our curriculum beyond the assessment of the foundation subjects. We also look to build self –belief and respect so that all children develop a sense of self-worth. We hope to see the children realise new skills and find new interests and talents along their learning journey.

Right to Withdrawal

If a family have concerns about the content of the RE curriculum, they should have a chat with the Headteacher. Parents do have the right to wholly or partially withdraw their child from an RE lesson. Staff have the right to withdraw from any RE teaching.

If you would like to know more about our RE curriculum, please email office@skeltonprimaryschoool.co.uk