At Arnesby we adhere to the agreed Leicestershire curriculum for the teaching of Religious Education. In line with the Statement of Entitlement, we ensure that our RE curriculum is challenging, accurate and diverse. We make use of resources like Understanding Christianity to support our teaching and learning across the two-year curriculum.
Our goals for each child within our two-year RE curriculum are:
- To know about and understand Christianity as a diverse global living faith through the exploration of core beliefs using an approach that critically engages with biblical text.
- To gain knowledge and understanding of a range of religions and worldviews appreciating diversity, continuity and change within the religions and worldviews being studied.
- To engage with challenging questions of meaning and purpose raised by human existence and experience.
- To recognise the concept of religion and its continuing influence on Britain’s cultural heritage and in the lives of individuals and societies in different times, cultures and places.
- To explore their own religious, spiritual and philosophical ways living, believing and thinking.
As a Church of England School, we ensure that the Christian values at Arnesby underpin everything we do – not just in Religious Education, but across the curriculum and is woven throughout the learning.
Across our two-year programme of study, we ensure that Christianity makes up around 50% of the units, with additional units on Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and non-religious worldviews across the cycle.
Religious Education learning is enriched by visits to places of worship where children can ask well crafted and curious questions about the religion to the guides at each place of worship.
