Westbury Leigh RE
At Westbury Leigh CofE Primary School we want children to love Religious Education! Through it, we can explore and make sense of the diversity of the world in which we live. We are able to develop our empathy, tolerance and compassion to become deep-thinking, caring and considerate citizens who want to make a difference to our school, community and world.
Through our RE teaching we aim:
- To provoke challenging questions about the ultimate meaning of life, beliefs about God, the nature of reality and morality.
- To develop pupils’ knowledge and understanding of Christianity, other principal world religions, religious traditions and world-views, which offer answers to ultimate questions.
- To encourage pupils to develop their sense of identity and belonging, in order to flourish within communities, as responsible citizens in society and global communities.
- To teach pupils to develop respect for others and their beliefs and helps to challenge prejudice.
- To prompt pupils to consider their responsibilities to themselves and to others, and to explore how they might contribute to their communities and to wider society encouraging empathy, generosity and compassion.
Our curriculum:
At Westbury Leigh, we view RE as a core subject and are committed to ensuring that a minimum of 5% of discrete curriculum time in KS1 and 2 is dedicated to it.
Our RE teaching follows the Wiltshire Agreed Syllabus, and is informed by the RE Today scheme which incorporates Understanding Christianity. We consider the Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Islamic and Humanist world views throughout our curriculum, and celebrate wider worldviews annually on Multi-Faith Day. We believe that this is a combination which allows our pupils to become religiously literate; enabling them to be knowledgeable about a range of worldviews as well as aspirational in developing their own morality and spirituality.
Children each have individual RE exercise books which are used in conjunction with class floor books. Floor books are used throughout a unit as a means of recording discussions and debates, individual quotes, thoughts or prayers, analysis, mind maps and photos of creative learning such as drama, performances and compositions. This allows us to be creative and exploratory in our learning. RE is explored through the disciplines of theology (believing), philosophy (thinking) and sociology (doing).
RRS Article 14: the right to choose your own religion and beliefs
