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OUR VISION FOR RE

Children’s critical thinking skills can be developed, their motivation to learn increased, and their knowledge and understanding of, and empathy with people and their beliefs, religious or otherwise, will be enhanced.

CURRICULUM INTENT  

By using an enquiry-based model well, children’s critical thinking skills can be developed, their motivation to learn increased, and their knowledge and understanding of, and empathy with people and their beliefs, religious or otherwise, will be enhanced. This approach takes very seriously the philosophy that children are free to make their own choices and decisions concerning religion and belief.

CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION

Cheswick Green Primary School uses Discovery RE curriculum.

Discovery RE is a comprehensive set of detailed medium-term planning for Religious Education from Nursery to Year 6. This offers engaging and challenging RE lessons with confidence which include the following religions: Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism.

The children start from their own experience to ensure understanding of the concept being studied then move into investigating that concept in depth from the point of view of the chosen religion. This continues over three lessons of investigation and discussion throughout Step 2, which embeds subject knowledge. These lessons not only support the children with embedding their RE knowledge, but also contribute to their oracy and critical thinking skills. In Step 3, they complete an assessment activity to evaluate the question again in light of their new knowledge, and have further opportunities to embed their own reflections on the learning in Step 4.

CURRICULUM IMPACT

The impact of our curriculum will enable children to:

• Develop critical thinking skills
• Use personal reflection to develop on their own thoughts and feelings
• Grow in subject knowledge about different religions and nurture spiritual development

INCLUSION

Discovery RE is written as a universal core curriculum provision for all children. Inclusivity is part of its philosophy. Teachers will tailor each enquiry to meet the needs of the children in their classes and scaffold the learning. Please speak to your child's class teacher if you wish to withdraw them from part of our RE curriculum.