Religious Education
The principal aim of religious education is to explore what people believe and what difference this makes to how they live, so that pupils can gain the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to handle questions raised by religion and belief, reflecting on their own ideas and ways of living.
The curriculum for RE aims to ensure that all pupils can:
- Identify and make sense of core religious and non-religious beliefs and concepts; understand what these beliefs mean within their traditions; recognise how and why sources of authority (such as texts) are used, expressed and interpreted in different ways, and develop skills of interpretation.
- Examine how and why people put their beliefs into action in diverse ways, within their everyday lives, within their communities and in the wider world.
- Evaluate, reflect on and connect the beliefs and practices studied; allowing our pupils to challenge ideas studied, and the ideas studied to challenge pupils’ thinking; finding possible connections between these and pupils’ own lives and ways of understanding the world.
