Religious Education
“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
Jimmy Carter
Promoting Tolerance and Appreciation
for Different Faiths and those with no Faith
RE is positively and routinely taught throughout school with purpose and intention for each year group. It is broken down in to different objectives for each year group to make sure they cover a breadth of knowledge for each of the worlds main religions. We give children the chance to learn about Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism while promoting tolerance and appreciation for those religions and their impact on the world.
Outcomes and Expectations
At Loxley we follow the ‘Enquiring Minds and Open Hearts’ approach to RE learning. We believe children learning RE allows for provoking challenging questions about human life, beliefs, communities and ideas. In RE pupils learn from religions and world views about different ways of life in local, national and global contexts. They discover, explore and consider many different answers to questions about human identity, meaning and value. By the end of Year 6 we expect children to leave Loxley to respond thoughtfully to a range of beliefs and teachings. Explore and present their own findings on religions in their community.
How we do it
To make sure children get a depth of RE learning, we make sure each year group looks at a range of aspects to religions eg: special places, rites and rituals, celebrations and festivals and leaders and teachings. Work is expressed through art, story telling, songs and where appropriate visits and visitors so children can experience first hand the importance of their own and others’ religions. We allow children at Loxley to explore their own ideas on faith and what it means to have or not have a faith.
