Our Vision (Intent)

The principal intention of RE at St. Andrew’s CE Primary School is to explore big questions about life so that pupils can:

• Discover what people believe and what difference this makes to how they live.
• Make sense of religion and worldviews
• Reflect on and are prepared for the opportunities, responsibilities, and experiences of life in a diverse modern Britain, now and in the future.

We provide a rich and varied curriculum that aims to ensure that all pupils:

Know about and understand a range of religious and non-religious 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 religious and non-religious 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 religious and non-religious worldviews, so that they can:

• Explain, using reasoned arguments, 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 religious and non-religious worldviews, so that they can:

• 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 clearly beliefs, values and commitments in order to explain why they may be important in their own and other people’s lives.