Our curriculum intent: why we teach what we teach in Religious Education

• Students will know the story and theological meaning of the Bible, from creation, through fall, and to redemption and restoration. We want students to know the influence that this book, and the person of Jesus, have had on Western civilization and its culture, ethics and major thinkers. Alongside an understanding of a Christian worldview, we want students to explore and understand other major religious worldviews such as Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, as well as atheistic belief systems, so they can see how belief influences practice and causes people to ask and answer the important questions in life.
• Students will be able to read, listen and think well, sympathising with the worldviews and practices of others, as well as received wisdom, while being able to critically appraise them. We want students to be able to reflect on their own worldview, critically appraise it, and articulate it, with justification. Related to this, we want students to be able to ask questions, evaluate evidence well, and justify their conclusions. Students will explore the growth of religious tolerance in modern Britain, and how British Values and human rights have developed over time. We intend students to understand how the belief in the imago Dei has often been a driver in the building of a more equal and fair society.
• Students will develop both academically and personally, particularly as they reflect on the challenge of the person of Jesus Christ in the Bible. We want students to become humble, self-sacrificial servants as they study Religious Education, knowing they are infinitely precious and gifted for a purpose, using their gifts to help others. We want them to be those who understand how truth, error and wisdom is discerned and explored within faith, communicate confidently and clearly, whilst being tolerant and sympathetic, knowing that they and others are valuable. Our intent is that this curriculum will equip students with a religious literacy that builds harmonious relationships in the diversity that makes up modern Britain.

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