RE
Miss Ramsay is our RE leader
At Coppice Valley we use the North Yorkshire Agreed Syllabus 2019–2024 to plan our religious education curriculum.
For students to understand religion and reflect on their own ideas and ways of living, the North Yorkshire Syllabus states that RE should " explore big questions about life, to find out what people believe and what difference this makes to how they live, so that pupils can make sense of religion, reflecting on their own ideas and ways of living.”
Values Led Teaching
Brave
Our RE Curriculum identifies essential questions that are covered in each unit of study. Each unit of work's central questions provides a window into the material to be studied.
Curious
The syllabus is organised around the three strands of Believing, Expressing, and Living, as well as the stated objectives. These threads are weaved throughout the academic subjects that we study in each area of the school.
Kind
By supporting the school's overall ethos through the scheduled RE activities and encouraging self-awareness, moral courage, and the ability to foster empathy for others, the North Yorkshire Agreed syllabus supports SMSC within the classroom. Nevertheless, it is our responsibility as a school to make sure that SMSC is developed across every aspect of school life.
The implementation of RE in the curriculum can substantially enhance the study of British values because it teaches students how to evaluate these ideals critically. The subject offers the chance to fully comprehend the interrelationships between values, other religions, and beliefs. This therefore supports children in moving past attitudes of tolerance and into cultivating respect in order to accept and celebrate diversity.
Key skills and knowledge
The three main objectives of RE are as follows. These are intended to guarantee that all students will:
- Know about and understand a range of religions and worldviews, so that they can:
- describe, explain, and analyse beliefs and practices, recognising the diversity which exists within and between communities and amongst individuals
- identify, investigate, and respond to questions posed, and responses, offered by some of the sources of wisdom found in religions and worldviews
- appreciate and appraise the nature, significance, and impact of different ways of life and ways of expressing meaning.
- Express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religions and worldviews, so that they can:
- explain reasonably their ideas about how beliefs, practices and forms of expression influence individuals and communities
- express with increasing discernment their personal reflections and critical responses to questions and teachings about identity, diversity, meaning and value, including ethical issues
- appreciate and appraise varied dimensions of religion.
- Gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with religions and worldviews, so that they can:
- find out about and investigate key concepts and questions of belonging, meaning, purpose and truth, responding creatively
- enquire into what enables different individuals and communities to live together respectfully for the wellbeing of all
- articulate beliefs, values and commitments clearly in order to explain why they may be important in their own and other people’s lives.
Curriculum at each phase
In EYFS, Children should encounter religions and worldviews through special people, books, times, places and objects and by visiting places of worship. They should listen to and talk about stories. Children can be introduced to subject specific words and use all their senses to explore beliefs, practices and forms of expression. They ask questions and reflect on their own feelings and experiences. They use their imagination and curiosity to develop their appreciation of and wonder at the world in which they live.
In KS1, Children will know about and understand a range of religions and worldviews, express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religions and worldviews and gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with religions and worldviews. During the key stage, pupils should be taught knowledge, skills and understanding through learning about Christians and Muslims or Jewish people. Pupils may also encounter other religions and worldviews in thematic units, where appropriate.
In KS2, Children will know about and understand a range of religions and worldviews, express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religions and worldviews and gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with religions and worldviews. During the key stage, pupils should be taught knowledge, skills and understanding through learning about Christians, Muslims, Hindus and Jewish people. Pupils may also encounter other religions and worldviews in thematic units.
Please see the curriculum maps for more in-depth knowledge of what children will learn at each phase.
