Religious Education
RE at St Andrew’s will be provided within legal requirements.
These are as follows:
1). The Basic Curriculum must include provision for RE for all pupils registered on the school roll, including those in the Reception class who are less than five years old.
2). The content of RE must reflect the fact that the religious traditions of Great Britain are, in the main, Christian; it must also reflect the teaching and practices of the other principal religious traditions represented in Great Britain.
3). The RE curriculum provided will be in accordance with the locally agreed syllabus for Lincolnshire.
We deliver RE in accordance with the Church of England Education Office’s Statement of Entitlement. We also pay due attention to the Ofsted RE Research Review (2021), the National Content Standard for Religious Education (2023) and the Ofsted RE subject report (2024).
Within this context, our aims in RE are for pupils to:
- Acquire and develop knowledge and understanding of Christianity and a range of other religious and non-religious worldviews.
- Develop an understanding of the ways in which religious and non-religious beliefs, teachings, practices, values and traditions influence individuals, communities, societies and cultures, from the local to the global contexts.
- Develop the ability to make reasoned and informed judgements about religious and moral issues, with reference to the beliefs, teachings, practices, sources of authority and ways of living associated with the principle religions represented in the UK.
- Develop positive attitudes of mutual respect for and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
- Enhance their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development by:
- - Considering the ‘big questions’ raised by human experience and reflecting on how religious and other traditions respond to them.
- - Responding to such questions with reference to religious and non-religious beliefs, teachings, practices, values and traditions, relating them to their own understanding and experience.
- - Reflecting on their own beliefs, values and experiences in light of their study of religious and non-religious worldviews.
Religious Education is taught in our school because it makes:
“…a major contribution to the education of children and young people. At its best, it is intellectually challenging and personally enriching. It helps young people develop beliefs and values, and promotes the virtues of respect and empathy, which are important in our diverse society. It fosters civilised debate and reasoned argument and helps pupils to understand the place of religion and belief in the modern world”.
(RE: Realising the potential, Ofsted 2013).
