RE

At St Peter’s Religious Education is classed as a core subject and aims to be of a quality to engage pupils’ intellect, heart and imagination.

We follow the Learning and Growing as the People of God Strategy for all our Religious Education lessons, which is the curriculum strategy for Religious Education in Catholic Primary Schools in the Archdiocese of Birmingham. The Strategy provides teachers with a range of suggested cross-curricular activities which can be differentiated to suit the learning needs of the children in their class for them to explore the Catholic faith and achieve the learning outcomes. There is a strong emphasis on pupils engaging with and responding to questions of life in the light of religious teaching.

This flexible approach enables teachers to incorporate their own creative teaching ideas into the delivery of the Strategy.

The Strategy is divided into a number of units for each year group, usually 12, which cover four main areas of study:

• The Liturgical Seasons of the Church’s Year: The children find out about the significance of each season, its particular signs and symbols and the different liturgies celebrated in each season.
• Scripture: The children study both Old Testament and New Testament Scripture in order to give them familiarity and knowledge of Scripture as well as enabling them to explore and understand how Catholic beliefs are rooted in what Scripture reveals to us.
• The Sacraments: There is a strong Sacramental focus in each year group. The Year 3 book fully prepares the children to receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist in Year 3.
• Living as Christians including Prayer: The children learn about what it is to live as Christians today, how the Church is organised from global to parish level and also the opportunities which exist for them to participate in the life of the Church.

In each unit, there are additional planned opportunities to pray and time to reflect.

The long term plan for Religious Education outlines the units which are covered at each stage in every year group to meet the above criteria.

Here are some examples of class work and collaboration from our Class RE Learning Journals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you wish to speak to the Religious Education Lead then please contact Mrs. Catherine Clubley.

Other Faith and Religions

At St. Peter’s pupils are taught that each person is a unique individual, created in the image and likeness of God to whom God has given special gifts to be used for the good of other people.  Our school mission of ‘Love God and Love One Another’ underpins our approach to preparing pupils for life in a multi-cultural society.

Each year group is allocated a different religion to study.  This can be done through a whole school focus week, individual lessons on special festival days or a mini-topic week during the year decided by the year group teachers.