Stanley St Peter’s RE Vision 2022-2024

At Stanley St Peter’s, our main aim is to ‘Unlock Potential and Celebrate Success.’ We recognise that Religious Education is an academic subject which provokes challenging questions about the meaning and purpose of life. We want all children to develop their knowledge and understanding of Christians, amongst other religious and non-religious followers (Jewish people, Muslims, Hindus, Humanists) and religious traditions. RE lessons enable pupils to build their sense of identity and belonging, which helps them flourish within their communities and as citizens in a diverse society.

Knowledge of religions and religious practices/followers teaches pupils to develop respect for others, including people with different faiths and beliefs and helps to challenge prejudice. We want our pupils to consider their responsibilities to themselves and to others; to explore how they might contribute to their communities and to the wider society. In the RE Curriculum, we want to teach pupils at Stanley St. Peter’s to learn to live respectfully together by sharing their views and disagreeing well with each other. We encourage empathy, generosity and compassion.

How will we achieve this?

Lessons

Every lesson starts with a 'Show What You Know' where pupils revisit and review their previous learning. During the lesson, pupils review the content that they have learnt in that lesson with a 'Pit Stop'. The lesson concludes with a 'reflect question' to ensure that children review and deepen their thoughts on the concept covered in each lesson.

Teachers use their subject knowledge and understanding of the skills progression to unlock pupils’ potential by…

• Reading, sharing and interpreting a range of religious stories
• Asking increasingly provoking and challenging questions
• Weighing up ideas and arguing well
• Thinking deeply, evaluating and reflecting
• Making connections within their learning
• Interpreting and evaluating religious art and architecture
• Exploring through drama and music
• Reflecting on their own views
• Showing respect for others’ views
• Considering their own responsibilities to themselves and others
• Having access to the RE display for time to evaluate their learning

Assessment

• The termly unit has an overall ‘Thought Provoking Question’. Each lesson explores an aspect of the question and assesses the pupil's progress towards answering it.
• Each child knows and understands the learning outcome and success criteria for each lesson and is able to explain how they can achieve these
• Progress is evident through a progression of knowledge acquired throughout the year across the year groups
• Religious vocabulary is used and marked upon

Books

• Each child knows and understands the learning outcome and success criteria for each lesson and is able to explain how they can achieve these.
• Progress is evident through a progression of skills throughout the year across the year groups.
• Religious vocabulary is used and marked upon.
• Children have been given a variety of opportunities to work practically through discussions, debates, listening to guest speakers/experts, and drama activities as well as expressing their knowledge through their recorded task.

Pupil Voice

• Children are engaged in the lessons and understand the value of what they are learning. As a result of this, pupils are not deterred if they do not quickly establish an understanding, instead, they are motivated to achieve the learning outcome by the end of the session.  They understand that making mistakes is as much a part of learning/discovery as is being successful
• Enjoyment and enthusiasm are expressed when the children are discussing, debating and evaluating their RE learning
• Children are able to articulate and explain their reasoning, thought processes and strategies with confidence

Trips and Visitors

In our school we want the children to have as much first-hand experience when it comes to learning about a religion. With this in mind, we want to give the children the best opportunities to meet someone from a religion they are learning about and to visit a place of worship.

In Cycle B:

EYFS - Visit our vicar at Harvest time

Y1 - Visit a Church

Y2 - Visit a Synagogue

Y3/4 - Visit a Hindu Temple

Y5/6 - Visit a Mosque

In Cycle A:

EYFS- Visit a Church

Y1- A visit from a person who is Jewish

Y2- A visit from a person who is a Christian  

Y3/4- A visit from a person who is non-religious (Humanist)

Y5/6- A visit from a person who is a Hindu