RE

RE Intent

At Gisburn Road, we want our children to have an understanding of different religions and cultures and their beliefs. The curriculum is designed to ensure that the children develop their critical thinking skills alongside religious knowledge.

The teaching of Religious Education is vital to developing life-long learners who seek to maximise their understanding of the world they live in and that of their own beliefs. These will be achieved through using key questions and concepts, which seek to provide answers to the understanding of a variety of beliefs and values linked to each religion. As a result, children will have a deep understanding of the world main religions.

Our teaching will provide children with knowledge and understanding of religious values, beliefs, practises and lifestyles whilst offering the opportunity for reflection. It will draw on its vast range of vocabulary to identify and name religious figures, places, artefacts and symbols.

The National curriculum states the legal requirement that: Every state-funded school must offer a curriculum which is balanced and broadly based and which promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils, and prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

The RE curriculum at Gisburn Road has been designed using the SACRE and the Lancashire Agreed Syllabus 2021.