"We may have different religions, different languages, different coloured skin, but we all belong to one human race." - Kofi Annan

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The member of staff responsible for Religious Education is Ms Cespedes.

 

How Dovecotes Primary School’s Religious Education Curriculum Promotes Our Core Values:

 

Be Creative – To consider how people can express their religion to others. To promote inquisitive minds around fundamental questions concerning the meaning and purpose of life. To reflect upon their own spiritual development and how religion can be used to resolve issues and problem solve.

 

Be Ambitious - To introduce pupils to the best that has been thought and said through studying the work of different religions and their scriptures. To give pupils the skills they need to rationally and intelligently explore the fundamental questions of life.

 

Be Honest - To explore what is right and wrong, through the teachings of moral stories in order to learn about justice and fairness and the impact of different moral choices.

 

Be Kind - To encourage respectful dialogue between each other. To develop positive attitudes and tolerance towards people, communities, beliefs and customs that may be different to our own. 

 

Be Brave - To provide pupils with a safe environment where they feel confident to share ideas, opinions and beliefs through open discussion, learning how to disagree agreeably and talk about their own and the beliefs of others in a respectful and appropriate way.

 

Be Healthy - To recognise how religion can be beneficial for spiritual well-being, promoting positive emotions such as love, hope, compassion, happiness, peace, contentment, gratitude, forgiveness, empathy and acceptance in our lives.

 

Intent – What Do We Aspire For Our Children? 

 

Dovecotes is a multicultural school in a multicultural city.  We celebrate our school’s rich diversity and use our RE curriculum to provide pupils with the skills and knowledge to be well-informed, empathetic citizens. Our children acquire knowledge of different world faiths and the connections between them, learning from religion so that they can better understand the beliefs and values which have shaped and continue to have an important influence on the world we live in. Our R.E Curriculum aims to develop a sense of wonder and prompt philosophical questioning, encouraging pupils to remain openminded about different faiths and world views. Pupils will understand how prayer, worship and reflection plays an important part in developing identity and belonging and will develop respect for and sensitivity to others whose faith and beliefs are different to their own. 

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The Aim of RE in Wolverhampton – knowing, expressing, gaining skills

 

The curriculum for religious education aims to ensure that all pupils:

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A. Know about and understand a range of religions and worldviews, so that they can:

Use their knowledge of religions to describe, explain and analyse beliefs and practices, recognising the diversity which exists within and between communities;
Identify, investigate and respond to questions posed by, and responses offered by some of the sources of  wisdom found in religions and worldviews;
Appreciate and appraise the nature, significance and impact of different ways of life and ways of expressing meaning.
 

B. Express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religions and worldviews, so that they can:
Explain reasonably their ideas about how beliefs, practices and forms of expression influence individuals and communities;
Express with increasing discernment their personal reflections and critical responses to questions and teachings about identity, diversity, meaning and value.
Appreciate and appraise varied dimensions of religion.
 

C. Gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with religions and worldviews, so that they can:
Find out about and investigate key concepts and questions of belonging, meaning, purpose and truth, responding creatively;
Enquire into what enables different communities to live together respectfully for the wellbeing of all;
Articulate beliefs, values and commitments clearly in order to explain reasons why they may be important in their own and other people's lives.

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By the end of EYFS children will:

 

• Consider what makes them unique and special.

• Developing a growing sense of the child’s awareness of self, their own community and their place within this,

• understand that people have different beliefs and celebrate special times in different ways.

• Look at different festivals (Christmas, Easter, Eid, Diwali, Chinese New Year) and explore food and clothes linked to them.

• understand that some places are special to members of my community.

• Explore the natural world and respond to questions such as What makes the world a wonderful place? Model and encourage responses to ‘why’ questions such as ‘Why should we look after the world?’

 

By the end of key stage 1 and key stage 2: