Curriculum
Religious Education
Religious Education
RE finds common religious principles amongst the different ideologies throughout the world that supports us to respect one another and live in relative peace.
RE at St Mary’s
Through RE we develop and nurture our spirituality through developing a relationship with God through exploration of awe and wonder in Christianity and World faiths.
It provides us with a platform to express our vision and we strive to demonstrate and live by what Jesus said in John 15:12: ‘Love one another as I have loved you,’ by showing friendship and compassion to those in our community and the wider world.
Our age appropriate curriculum, led by the LDBS unit plans and supported by Godly play and Biblical text analysis, allows us to discuss, create and reflect our thoughts, views and opinions about the Big Questions in Christianity and World faiths in a safe space. Through this we develop our religious literacy and build up memory about religious vocabulary, beliefs and practices.
We explore stories, people, beliefs, practices and values shown in faith and endeavour to reflect those values and our school values in our own lives.
It helps us to think and reflect on the issues in our modern world and how we can support, care for, show tolerance to and respect for everything God created.
It allows us to flourish spiritually, morally and culturally through a sense of peace and calm, living out our vision and values and enriching our learning through trips to places of worship.
It provides us with an understanding that we all belong in our diverse community and world as we explore people from world faiths and the Bible who our children can identify with.
Additionally, through our close links with Hornsey Parish Church, our local church, and trips to our church, as well as other world faith places of worship we enrich and enhance our skills, knowledge and understanding even further.
Through all these endeavours, our RE curriculum gives us the wisdom to expand our minds spiritually, socially, morally and culturally so allowing us to hope and aspire for a better world, flourish as people and fulfil the Church of England’s belief of living ‘Life in all its fullness’ (John 10:10).
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RE Whole School Curriculum Map
What is Spirituality at St Mary’s 2024 – 2025
How our school vision is shown in RE 2024-2025
Our RE Curriculum map is designed utilising the LDBS Curriculum but also reflects our children’s abilities and how they can achieve as well as how they can build up memory and religious literacy. We see progression through the development of RE skills and the Big Questions asked as children move through the years.
