Religious Education
Our RE Leader is Mrs Sanderson.
As a church school, we ensure that children receive their entitlement for teaching and learning in RE. Religious education is planned for at least one hour every week across the school year. Our RE curriculum has been designed around The North Yorkshire Agreed Syllabus and the Understanding Christianity materials.
Pupils learn to weigh up the value of wisdom from different sources; to develop and express their insights in response, and to agree or disagree respectfully. Respect is at the heart of everything we do in school so in developing our RE curriculum, we have considered how, through learning about a range faiths and spiritual beliefs, mutual respect, understanding and tolerance can be deepened.
Meet Reverend Theo! Reverend Theo is a Theologian. Theologians explore expressions of religion and how following a particular religion impacts on a believer's life through their understanding of the world and their place in it.
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| Nursery & Reception: Children will encounter Christianity and other faiths, as part of their growing sense of self, their community and their place within it. |
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Year 1: Christianity and Islam |
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Year 2: Christianity and Islam |
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Year 3: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Non-religious views |
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Year 4: Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Non-religious views |
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Year 5: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Non-religious views |
| Year 6: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, non-religious views |
Our RE curriculum is also enriched by a variety of trips out to sacred places and by visitors coming into school to share their own traditions and beliefs.
RE offers distinct and valid opportunities to promote pupils’ interdisciplinary learning and spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. It contributes dynamically to children and young people’s education by provoking challenging questions about meaning and purpose in life, beliefs about God, ultimate reality, issues of right and wrong and what it means to be human.
Pupils learn about and from religions in local, national and global contexts, to discover, explore and consider different answers to these questions. Dedicated RE lessons, in partnership with whole school approaches, allow for timely and sensitive responses to be made to unforeseen events of a religious, moral or philosophical nature, including natural phenomena resulting in humanitarian responses whether local, national or global.