The school follows the Blackburn Diocesan Syllabus ‘Questful RE 2022’
Throughout this syllabus, pupils will be introduced to and given opportunity to explore the big ideas of Christianity. These are eight core concepts at the heart of Christianity that together tell God’s big story. The eight core concepts are expressed in the Bible and lived out by Christian people each day.
Our aims are to enable children to:
- Have a sense of curiosity and excitement about the world and to encourage them to search for truth, meaning and purpose in life; and to have an opportunity to develop their own beliefs, values and attitudes in the beginning of their search for a faith by which to live. We aim to support this by providing a secure, caring and nurturing environment in the context of a Christian Community/Church School.
- Have a knowledge and understanding of Christianity as a living faith and become aware of the place and significance of Christianity, and other religions, in the contemporary world
- Have an understanding of, and respect for, other major world faiths
- See creation and the natural world as part of God’s revelation of himself
- Explore the nature of religious symbolism and language
- Explore and go some way towards finding their own answers to “life questions” such as origin, suffering, evil, death, etc
- Develop appropriate attitudes, and an appropriate body of knowledge
We will aim at all times to value children’s own beliefs (which may be other than Christian)
Organisation of RE within the school
To take into account our mixed age classes, the Year 1/ 2, Year 3/ 4 and Year 5/ 6 classes follow a two-year rolling programme, whilst the reception pupils follow a single year programme.
