Religious Education

Subject Philosophy: Religious Education (RE)

The Queen’s Park RE curriculum aims to meet, and indeed stretch beyond, the expectations of our agreed syllabus for RE entitled ‘Living Difference IV’ by providing opportunities to:

• Develop spiritually, morally, socially, and culturally.
• Promote respect and open-mindedness towards others with different beliefs.
• Encourage pupils to develop their sense of identity and belonging through self-awareness and reflection.
• Engage in an enquiry approach to develop an understanding and appreciation for different beliefs.
• Forge connections between the topic and a local, national, or international context.
• Enjoy educational visits that will illustrate and extend concepts taught within class.
• Make meaningful links in learning (where appropriate) with the cross-curricular ‘Big Question’.
• Build on pupils’ own experiences related to the concepts and religions explored.

We intend to teach RE with passion, enthusiasm, and strong subject knowledge so that all students:

• Understand what a religious way of looking at life and existing in the world may offer.
• Attend to their own experience and that of others.
• Apply their experience to the new material they learn about.
• Question what they have learnt and how it relates to them.
• Contextualise the new material they have learnt.
• Evaluate what they value and what this new material means to them.
• Explore concepts common to all, shared by some, or distinctive to particular religions.