North Ferriby CE Primary School Curriculum

Religious Education at North Ferriby

The Core Christian values at North Ferriby Church of England Primary School are Courage, Friendship, Perseverance and Respect . These values underpin our curriculum and enrich all aspects of our pupils’ education. Our curriculum prepares children for the future by developing Heathy and Safe, Trusting, Enterprising and Creative members of the local community. Embedded within our teaching and learning, are opportunities for the pupils to understand the meaning and significance of the Christian faith.

As a Church of England school, Religious Education is centred on Christianity as a ‘diverse and living faith’ (Statement of Entitlement, 2019). The curriculum has been designed around our Vision Statement and Core Christian Values. Other world faiths are studied and celebrated as an integral part of our Religious Education delivery to ensure that children ‘gain a knowledge and understanding of a range of religions and worldviews’ (Statement of Entitlement, 2019). It encourages an understanding of the meaning and significance of faith and promotes respect and tolerance through the experience it offers to all its pupils to reflect our fundamental British Values.

We have the highest aspirations for our pupils and have created a bespoke and inclusive curriculum where children are encouraged to be active learners, have confidence to share experiences and opinions, and to flourish academically. We aim to promote and provide a safe environment where children feel nurtured, accepted and valued.

We endeavour to deliver the highest quality teaching and learning within the context of Christian belief and practice ‘through sequential religious education’ (Statement of Entitlement February 2019). As a Voluntary Controlled school, we adhere to and implement the East Riding Agreed Syllabus as a basis for our curriculum. The Understanding Christianity resource is used to supplement this. Philosophy for Children is embedded into the curriculum to promote critical and independent thinkers about key concepts and discussion points.

At North Ferriby CE Primary School, we follow the Locally Agreed Syllabus – A Syllabus for Religion and Worldviews. This syllabus promotes an enquiry approach to learning. It provides our pupils with the opportunity to develop knowledge about the religions and worldviews they study, which helps them to understand the society in which we live, the culture we inherit and the wider world of which we are a part.

The Teaching of RE Through a Structured Process

All pupils at North Ferriby have access to a broad, balanced and enriching Religious Education curriculum through an enquiry approach developing religious knowledge and world views. This is done through a spiral designed scheme of work with the following key principles in mind:

Cyclical: Pupils return to the key areas again and again during their time at North Ferriby.

Increasing Depth: Each time a key area is revisited it is covered with greater complexity.

Prior Knowledge: Upon returning to each key area, prior knowledge is utilised so pupils can build upon previous foundations, rather than starting again.

This ensures that the our scheme of work identifies what pupils already know before outlining the new learning in the next stage of the learning journey. Children will develop an understanding of key concepts from a range of religions and worldviews, through engaging with quality resources and deploying the skills needed to understand, interpret and critically evaluate texts, sources of wisdom and authority. Our children explore their own responses and those of others to questions of meaning, purpose and truth, enabling them to develop their own ideas, values and identity. They can then participate fully and positively in our society with its diverse religions and many differing worldviews.

Scheme of Work Structure

Lesson 1
A new unit is introduced by asking the children a question to get them thinking about an aspect of the religion being taught. Children are invited to share what they already know about the relevant religion and are given the opportunity to ask questions. These questions will be answered by the end of each lesson.

Unit Lessons
Discovery RE is an enquiry-based learning approach from Foundation Stage to Year 6. Through engaging and interactive lessons, children will investigate enquiry modules covering Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism. This scheme is linked closely with the Hull and East Riding SACRE syllabus.

Summary
The unit of learning finishes with a summary of the religion studied. The enquiry questions from the beginning of the theme, including the children’s questions, are revisited to ensure these have been answered.

Impact of Religious Education at North Ferriby

Our pupils study, Religious Education in depth and are are given the opportunity to enhance their own spiritual, moral, social and cultural development whilst given the teaching tools to recognise the right for people to hold different beliefs within an ethnically and socially diverse society.

Our curriculum prepares pupils for life in a modern diverse community with a strong moral compass building around the school’s core values and the fundamental British Values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.

“I can tell you about the Christmas story and gifts Jesus was given by the wise men; gold, frankincense and myrrh.”

Jude, Year 1

“I know how to show kindness and Jesus healed a paralysed man.”
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Alexander, Year 2

“I can explain what different religions believe in and compare their beliefs and moral values to ours.”

George, Year 6

“I understand the relevance of Sikh stories today and how this shapes their religion.”

Ava, Year 5

NORTH FERRIBY CE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Religious Education at North Ferriby

The Teaching of RE Through a Structured Process

Impact of Religious Education at North Ferriby