Religious Education
Article 14
You have the right to choose your own religion and beliefs.
Article 30
You have the right to practice your own culture, language and religion.
At Stanburn Primary School, we pride ourselves on offering a high quality, interesting and inclusive RE curriculum across the school; there is a high level of engagement from all pupils. It is through this full and varied programme that we endeavour to educate our pupils, enabling them to filter out the stereotypes that contribute to religious discrimination and disharmony.
It is our Intent to:
- Reinforce our seven Stanburn values of Respect, Curiosity, Aspiration, Co-operation, Kindness, Courage and Resilience.
- Develop flexible, creative thinkers and encourage curiosity about real world problems and how to solve them.
- Stimulate an active attitude of enquiry.
- Support pupils in developing an understanding of various types of belief and how these affect other individuals and society in general.
- Provoke challenging questions about the ultimate meaning and purpose of life, beliefs about God, the self and the nature of reality, issues of right and wrong and what it means to be human.
- Develop knowledge, understanding and awareness of Christianity and other major world faiths, including the Baha’i Faith, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism and Zoroastrianism as well as ethical non-theistic traditions, such as Humanism.
- Enable the development of a sense of identity and belonging and the ability to flourish within pluralistic societies, locally, nationally and internationally.
- Develop further tolerance and harmony between different cultural and religious traditions.
Implementation
The content of our Religious Education Scheme of work is based on the Harrow Agreed Syllabus for and is taught for an hour, once a week. The Harrow Agreed Syllabus has two main aims:
- To learn from religion, which contributes to pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
- To learn about religion. Pupils find out about the religious and spiritual beliefs and practices of the major religions.
Key questions are investigated through literature, sacred texts, studying artefacts and visits to places of worship. An understanding and awareness of the religious beliefs of others is actively encouraged to promote tolerance and respect through the teaching of RE.
Impact
We seek to ensure that all pupils in our school are educated to develop spiritually, culturally, academically, emotionally and morally to enable them to better understand themselves and others and to cope with the opportunities, challenges and responsibilities of living in a rapidly changing, multicultural world.
