Religious Education (R.E.)
Subject Leader - Miss S Wright
At Shrubland Street, we know the importance of RE in helping pupils understand roles in society and learn about the importance of tolerance and respect and valuing diversity. This is taught through the understanding of modern British values and its links to spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) education. It helps pupils examine how we develop communities that are harmonious and respectful of others, no matter what their beliefs, colour or background.
As a school, we follow the 2024 Coventry and Warwickshire Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education.
We ensure that our curriculum, in its implementation, is relevant to and enhanced by the school community and local area. We have strong links with the local church and Mandir. Parents and carers are also involved in our RE learning and children are encouraged to share their beliefs and experiences with their peers and younger children.
We celebrate and recognise lots of religious and cultural events throughout the school year in a variety of ways including themed days and weeks such as 'Diwali Day', Eidn and Chinese New Year to which we are grateful for all of the support that our community gives us.
The Coventry and Warwickshire Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education delivers the RE curriculum as a religion and worldviews approach, posing questions around organised worldviews (such as religious traditions). We will explore organised/institutional, communal and individual world views
The syllabus is structured to reflect the fact that the religious traditions in Great Britain are in the main Christian, while taking account of the teaching and practices of the other principal religions represented in Great Britain, such as Islam, Hinudism and Judaism.
RE Curriculum intent:
Through our RE syllabus, pupils will become:
- skilled cultural navigators: exploring the worldviews representing the communities that shape us: home, peer group, school, church/mosque/etc, wider community, global ideas/connections.
- empowered: promoting pupil autonomy and agency in the classroom, seeing themselves as scholarly and also as the subject of study- every single worldview is relevant to the subject; suddenly RE really is for everybody!
- self-aware, reflexive interpreters: critical thinking and authentic engagement with worldviews of others.
- individuals taking responsibility: not only for their own worldview and its development but also as they respectfully learn about the worldviews of others.
Parents do have the right to withdraw children from all or part of the RE curriculum.
If you would like to do this, then please contact Mrs Mills (Head Teacher). Alternative work would be planned for this time in the curriculum.
There are national guidelines regarding a parent's right to withdraw their child from RE lessons. Please take a look at the information below: