Intent:

At Queen Mary Avenue Infant & Nursery School it is our intent to provide children with a high-quality, challenging RE curriculum that enables children to develop the skills to be Religiously Literate. At Queen Mary Avenue we follow and plan comprehensively using the Lincolnshire agreed syllabus, which incorporates Understanding Christianity resources. Through this curriculum we promote the moral, social, cultural and spiritual development of all pupils when learning about the beliefs, values and traditions of other individuals, societies, communities and cultures.

 

Implementation:

We will ensure pupils will achieve religious literacy by:

Inspiring and engaging children in RE through a well-planned curriculum that focuses on core content and vocabulary. This is planned in a spiral approach allowing pupils to build on prior learning and revisit previously taught concepts regularly. Christianity and Islam are taught throughout FS and KS1, other religions and non-religions are taught through additional units.

Providing carefully planned lessons that enable children to develop their RE skills through a range of opportunities that will allow them to ask pertinent questions, analyse evidence, think critically, appreciate different perspectives and develop informed judgements.

Providing opportunities for pupils to reason about what they have learned and then reflect on their own personal knowledge and beliefs.

Ensuring children working collaboratively with their peers to develop and improve their RE skills through group discussions and opportunities to compare and contrast beliefs and transitions.

The use of scaffolding and the modelling of RE skills are used throughout the school to support and further learning in all RE units.

High quality resources and texts are carefully planned and developed that enable the children to develop their historical understanding and skills throughout their learning.

Enhancing the curriculum with real life experiences through trips to places of worship in our local area.

 

Impact:

Through quality first teaching linked to real life contexts, children will develop the skills they need to enable them to have balanced and informed conversations and views about RE. They will have a clear understanding of different religious beliefs, concepts and facts (substantive knowledge), which they can then use to reason about different world views, beliefs, transitions and values (disciplinary knowledge). Using all of these skills children will also be able to reflect on their own religious beliefs, knowledge and understanding (personal knowledge).