Curriculum

Religious Education

 

As our children grow within an ever changing and diversifying global community, RE within our school paves the way to preparing our children for life in modern Britain and the wider world as flourishing, respectful and religiously literate global citizens.

Learning is a journey we travel together in our Church of England School, in pursuit of becoming the best version of ourselves. We aim to help children develop their character and their knowledge and understanding of their own and others’ faiths, beliefs and spirituality, impacting heavily upon their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Right to Withdrawal from RE

Parents have the statutory right, under Section 71 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, to withdraw their children from all or parts of RE lessons and acts of Collective Worship. 

Parents are not obliged to give a reason for requesting withdrawal. However, before exercising any right, we would ask that you discuss your concerns with the Headteacher.

Parents who wish to exercise their right to withdraw their child from Religious Education or Collective Worship will need to contact the Headteacher to discuss arrangements for alternative provision.

We ask that requests for withdrawals be made in writing. For example: 

As parents of [child's name] we formally request that he/she is withdrawn from RE/Collective Worship in future.'

Our RE Curriculum

Religious Educations provides a great avenue for teaching and modelling what ‘loving thy neighbour’ means practically, both within school and the wider world.  We want our children to flourish, embracing inclusivity by nurturing the whole person, mind, body and spirit. Having a rich, challenging, well-balanced, multidisciplinary RE curriculum will provide the knowledge and understanding to ultimately empower individuals to have meaningful, informed conversations about religions and world views.

Consequently, our principal aim for RE is:

To discover and explore different beliefs and the impact these have on how people live, so that our children can gain the knowledge, understanding and skills to ask and answer questions raised by religion and belief, reflecting on their own views and ways of living, ultimately becoming respectful, compassionate, religiously literate global citizens.

Our rich and challenging Religious Education curriculum enables us to investigate and reflect on some of life’s most fundamental questions and explore and develop awe and wonder, building on understanding of major world faiths and views within a safe and secure environment. It provides an avenue to promote courageous advocacy, aiming to help children understand that everyone is welcome in our wonderfully diverse world and why prejudice, discrimination and injustice should be challenged. 

 

Our spiral curriculum provides opportunities to learn about and revisit exploration of Christianity as a global faith and other main multicultural religions and non-religious worldviews represented locally, whilst also enabling active systematic investigation, enquiry, personal reflection and expression. 

 

At the heart of our curriculum design was the consideration of the knowledge and reflective opportunities our children would need, ensuring key ideas, concepts and development of skills could be revisited and built upon by the end of Key Stage 2.  With this in mind, the content selected is predominantly from within our Leicestershire RE locally agreed syllabus and the national Understanding Christianity resource. 

Our RE Journey

This is the RE learning journey a child will take throughout their time at Barwell Academy. For each of these learning journeys, there is a knowledge map detailing the main content and knowledge that we want our children to have by the conclusion of the learning journey.

 

Inclusion in RE

We do not want to put a ceiling on our children's learning. It is imperative that all children, especially those with special educational needs or disabilities access an ambitious, broad, challenging and inspiring curriculum. It should not be narrowed nor should the default position be to expect children not to be able to achieve. High expectations of all of our children are at the heart of this vision and this, of course, includes all children and all areas of the curriculum. 

 

 

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