Key Aims of our Religious Education Curriculum

• To know about and understand Christianity as a diverse global living faith through the exploration of core beliefs using an approach that critically engages with Biblical texts.
• To relate Jesus’ teachings to our own lives today within a pluralistic, diverse, post-modern society
• To gain knowledge and understanding of a range of religions and world views appreciating diversity, continuity and change within the religions and world views being studied.
• To engage with challenging questions of meaning and purpose raised by human existence and experience.
• To recognise the concept of religion and its continuing influence on Britain’s cultural heritage and in the lives of individuals and societies in different times, cultures and places.
• To explore their own religious, spiritual and philosophical ways of living, believing and thinking.
• To encourage a sense of responsibility towards other people and the environment (God’s creation) and our local, national and global community.