Intent

The principal aim of Religious Education is to engage pupils in systematic enquiry into significant human questions which religion and worldviews address, so that they can develop the understanding and skills needed to appreciate and appraise varied responses to these questions, as well as develop responses of their own.

At Mission Grove we plan to enable children to recognise, accept and shape their identities and culture: sharing ideas about how religious beliefs and teaching influence moral values and behaviour. We aim to develop an understanding of the religions within Britain and to understand the views which attribute to these: including those who are non-religious. The children are given opportunities to evaluate, describe and explain the meaning and purpose of a variety of forms of worship alongside explaining why different situations are helpful to prayer, reflection and contemplation.

At Mission Grove, we recognise the importance of inclusion and the curriculum ensures equal access to all pupils regardless of their ability, aptitude, race, religion or gender.

Implementation

We use the Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education developed by Waltham Forest (2021-2026) as the basis of our curriculum.

Learning is divided into 3 key areas:

• BELIEVING - Religious beliefs, teaching, sources; questions about meaning, purpose and truth.
• EXPRESSING - Religious and spiritual forms of expression; questions about identity and diversity.
• LIVING - Religious practices and ways of living; questions about values and commitments.

RE in the Early Years Foundation Stage

Children in EYFS will encounter religions and worldviews through special people, books, times, places and objects and by visiting places of worship.

Click on the link below to view the curriculum for religious Education.

Impact

Our RE curriculum is high quality, well thought-out and is planned to demonstrate progression.

The children make progress by knowing more, remembering more and being able to do more. They need to transfer and embed key concepts into their long-term memory and apply them fluently.

Children will make at least good progress from their last point of assessment.

We measure the impact of our curriculum in the following ways:

• Children demonstrate a positive attitude towards people of any religion and show an understanding of cultural beliefs different to their own.
• They demonstrate respectful behaviour to all and this is transferable outside of school in the wider community and beyond.
• Assessing children’s understanding of each unit using the Insights Tracking statements.
• Images and videos of the children’s learning.
• Interviewing the pupils about their learning (pupil voice).