Religious Education

Our religious education curriculum is designed to help children gain a deeper understanding of the world around them while also fostering the development of the own ideas, values and identities. Equally important, it encourage learners to express their thoughts and beliefs with clarity and confidence while respecting the perspectives of others. Religious education plays a vital role in promoting both our school’s values and broader British values among our students.

We have ensured that the units of work taught match our pedagogical approach of direct instruction and have been carefully planned to ensure a sequential and layered learning experience, supporting our pupils to know more and remember more over time as they continue to build on and develop their subject-specific skills and knowledge over time.

Our RE curriculum is taught discretely and is one of our ‘blocked subjects’. This means that the RE unit for that half term is taught every day for one week in the half term; this learning is then revisited and revised through retrieval practice factored into our weekly timetable, allowing our children to benefit from the advantages of spaced learning and interleaving. We believe that blocking subjects provides children with the opportunity to become immersed into a topic and develop deep learning in the subject discipline: more time is spent learning and applying knowledge than transitioning between different subjects within the school day.