Mrs Snowden is Shade's RE leader.
At Shade, we follow the Believing and Belonging RE Agreed Syllabus for Calderdale, Kirklees and Leeds, produced by SACRE for teaching from 2024-2029. Shade’s R.E curriculum recognises the importance of developing our pupils as individuals so they can grow up to be responsible citizens. The title, Believing and Belonging, reflects the twin aims that RE must stimulate interest and nurture understanding of religion and worldviews, while also contributing to children’s’ awareness of diversity in our communities and world.
The syllabus is designed around six learning pathways. These have been developed from ‘Big Ideas’ and act as the framework for sequencing learning in religion and worldviews at all key stages at Shade. We teach a broad, but rigorous RE curriculum, allowing children to understand different religions and worldviews in the context of our local communities and country. Our RE curriculum also provides opportunities for deeper focused study of specific topics and questions.
Please see the ‘RE long term plan’ for more information about the learning pathways taught throughout the year.
RE is taught weekly in Key Stage 1, and children in Key Stage 2 cover four learning pathways throughout the year. Children are given opportunities to develop a broad and balanced understanding of religions and worldviews. This empowers them to develop and use critical thinking skills, broadens their perspectives of faiths and culture and encourages tolerance of diversity. This helps them to develop their own personal worldview, identity, values and spirituality and contribute to becoming positive citizens of the world. Discussions, activities and photographs are recorded in class floor books which can be looked back at by children over the course of the year.
Children in EYFS regularly celebrate themselves, their families, people who are special to them and festivals around the world through stories, circle time and art activities.
RE links to Shade’s PSHE curriculum by developing well rounded children who will become responsible citizens. Through the RE curriculum we make a key contribution to children’s personal development generally and to school’s provision for PSHE, for example by providing opportunities for children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.