The purpose of the RE curriculum is for our Accrington Academy students to know and understand a range of religious and non-religious worldviews and be able to critically engage with those views. Our students should gain an appreciation for how these worldviews have impacted the world they live in at a local, national and global level.
Here we explore these principles in the context of the RE Curriculum:
Entitlement:
All pupils have the right to study the core units of the United Learning RE curriculum, which expose students to key religious and non-religious views that have deeply affected the lives ofpeople.
Coherence:
The RE curriculum is planned with carefully sequenced lessons and aims to provide a narrative to religious and non-religious views. The RE curriculum considers the disciplines which sit underneath the subject and makes powerful links to English, History and Geography in particular.
Mastery:
Students are expected to ‘get better’ at RE as they progress through the curriculum
Adaptability:
The RE curriculum contains core units which all schools are expected to teach, however, we also provide optional units for schools to have flexibility in teaching RE within their local context. Lessons are centrally planned by the Subject Advisor, but schools are expected to adapt these lessons for their local context and the individual classes they teach.
Representation:
The RE curriculum is planned with diversity and inclusion in mind. All students should see themselves within the RE curriculum as it covers a great variety of traditions and perspectives. We also explicitly deal with issues of equality within the curriculum.
Education with character:
Through exposure to the big ideas of religious and nonreligious belief, students have explicit opportunities for spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
- Parents have the right to withdraw their children from all or part of religious education.
- For any requests to withdraw your child from religious education, please contact the school to arrange a meeting with the Principal in the first instance.
Further information about the right to withdraw from RE can be found on the NATRE (National Association of Teachers of RE) website.