Children will recognise and have informed conversations about the beliefs, values and ways of living of others. They will reflect on their own experiences, make sense of their own place in the world and be aware of our shared experiences. They will learn to show tolerance to the complexity and diversity around us.
Our children are taught about a range of religions and learn to respect and ask questions about different religions, traditions and cultures around the world.
By learning about and from religion we can become more open minded, respectful and achieve greater self-awareness.
At Walton-le-Dale, children have the opportunity to visit places of worship and to be exposed to different religions through religious friends visiting our school. These opportunities are in line with our curriculum and allow children to see how religion can look in our world.
Our religious concepts are regularly revisited and built upon through year groups and across key stages to allow our children to continue to develop and strengthen their understanding.
Lancs curric + enhancements + progression of knowledge within each religion.
By the time children leave Year 6 they will be able to:
Beliefs and Values
Analyse beliefs, teachings and values and how they are linked.
Explain how the beliefs and values of a religious tradition might guide a believer through the journey of life.
Explain the impact of beliefs, values and practices – including differences between and within religious traditions.
Living Religious traditions
Use developing religious vocabulary to describe and show understanding of religious traditions, including practises, rituals and experiences.
Explain differing ideas about religious expression.
Shared human experience
Consider what makes us human in terms of our beliefs and values, relationships with others and sense of identity and belonging.
Discuss how people change during the journey of life.
Search for personal meaning
Discuss and debate questions about identity, belonging, meaning, purpose, truth, values and commitments.
Develop own views and ideas in response to learning.
Demonstrate increasing self-awareness in their own personal development.
Below are example documents and support from our curriculum intent.
We follow Lancashire's SACRE. Fundamental to our intent for RE has been the reorganisation of the Pillars of Progression so that progression in RE is clear throughout school.
This clarity has enabled our RE leader to create each unit plan, which includes recommended tasks to secure knowledge and understanding that fit with our approach to pedagogy.
Our RE concepts are revisited repeatedly and help children deepen their understanding. The concept stories shown below detail how each concept is relevant in that specific unit.
