RE

North Yorkshire SACRE Agreed Syllabus 2024-2029

RE Scheme of Learning 2024_2025

RE Vocabularly Progression Document

School Vision

“Religious Education is the gateway to greater empathy, compassion and celebration of diversity”

In RE we discuss the values, ideas and celebrations of different faiths and cultures in our diverse world. We enjoy bringing these to life by exploring them through stories, role play, craft, art and discussion. Lessons nurture the children’s own personal beliefs, ideas and values whilst fostering respect of the right of others to differ. To facilitate this, we follow the North Yorkshire Syllabus for RE.

As a school we maintain close relationships with our local Christian community. All pupils attend an assembly each week in the village chapel which is delivered by members of the local church. We also attend the village church for whole school end of term and seasonal celebrations.

Intent:

  • All children learn about a wide range of religious and non-religious worldviews to develop their substantive knowledge of religious and non-religious beliefs.
  • Children are supported and encouraged to evaluate these beliefs so that they can develop their own ideas, values and identities.
  • Through this teaching, we strive to improve the children’s understanding of the wider world, how others live and worship and to build tolerance and knowledge of our diverse nation and the world.

Implementation

  • We follow the North Yorkshire Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education (2024-2029) which is based around a key question approach. These questions open up the content to be studied and allow coherence and progression in the pupils learning.
  • The children investigate, explore and reach their own conclusions to these questions through class discussion and debate, role play, art, craft and stories. Staff support and facilitate this through taught vocabulary and questioning so that children develop a deep understanding of core concepts.
  • To put their learning into context, the children participate in visits to experience different religions and places of worship. In addition, the school hosts visitors from members of other religious and cultural communities.

Impact

The impact is that the children learn about a variety of religious and non-religious worldviews and people from different cultures and communities to their own. This in turn helps them to enter society as empathetic and compassionate young people who recognise how differences should be celebrated and embraced.

  • Children receive a grounding in the school’s values for life, British values and learn to develop their own opinions and beliefs (and expect that these will be respected).

 

  • Children learn that other people may have different opinion and faiths to their own, but that these are important to them and should be respected also.

 

  • Children feel part of the Slingsby community and in turn they feel valued by members of the church community in Slingsby.

 

  • The diverse faiths of the world are discovered and respected giving the children a broader view of the cultural capital in which we live today.