Religious Education

The purpose of Religious Education (R.E.) at St Clement's Catholic Primary School is to nurture the Catholic faith in our children. By helping them to live the faith, we hope to encourage our children to come to know and understand God’s revelation which is fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ. This permeates the school and develops a better relationship with God and with each other.

R.E promotes pupils’ cultural, mental, emotional, spiritual and physical development and prepares children for the opportunities and responsibilities that are to come.

Aims

· To provide staff and children with the knowledge, understanding and awareness of the Catholic faith and its beliefs.

· To enable staff and children to communicate with God through prayer and scripture.

· To enable staff and children to develop their spirituality.

· To help staff and children to explore and express their sense of awe and wonder at the world God has created.

· To encourage staff and children to respect those holding different beliefs.

· To help staff and children grow in awareness of themselves and to develop a positive attitude to their own emotions, life, and learning.

· To enable staff and children to grow in their awareness of others and to develop relationships in a secure and supportive environment.

· To become aware of issues involving justice and the rights of the individual.

R.E is a core subject and 10% of curriculum time is devoted to it. This time does not include time spent in prayer and liturgy.

Our Religious Education curriculum is based on the new RED. The objective of the curriculum is to 'develop religiously literate and engaged young people, with the knowledge, understanding and skills to reflect spiritually, think ethically and theologically, and recognise the demands of religious commitment in everyday life'.

There are six components to the curriculum, that are known as branches which follow the pattern of the Liturgical Year. Each branch has a core theme and is taught through the process of four lenses: Hear, Believe, Celebrate and Live. The names of these four lenses reflect the language of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The study of other religions and worldviews is taught through the lenses of dialogue and encounter.

The branches are:

Branch 1: Creation and Covenant

Branch 2: Prophecy and promise

Branch 3: Galilee to Jerusalem

Branch 4: Desert to Garden

Branch 5: To the ends of the Earth

Branch 6: Dialogue and Encounter

It is a spiral structure enabling pupil’s understanding to deepen throughout their school journey.

For any extra information about our Religious Education curriculum,

our R.E Subject Leader is:

Miss McNicholas