Religious Education

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

- Richard Dawkins

Through Religious Education we aim to ensure that our students have a better understanding of the people around them within our community and the wider national community in terms of different faiths, cultures and ethnicities.

We aim to provide students with the opportunity to reflect on their own faith or beliefs as well as learning about the faith and practices of others.  We provide students with the opportunities to discuss, explore and reflect on some of the bigger questions in life, sharing their own ideas as well as learning about ideas of others. 

The national curriculum states in the legal requirement that:  

Every state funded school must offer a curriculum which is balanced and broadly based, and which:

1. Promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils; and
2. Prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

This means:

• Students gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of Christianity, Islam and Buddhism.
• Students are able to think deeper and critically as well as challenge their own ideas and those of others.
• Students are able to explain their ideas and provide evidence for this.
• Students feel equipped to be able to tackle some of the big questions in life.
• Students feel supported and challenged to explore their own beliefs and those of others.