Religious Education

The Lime Religious Education Curriculum aims to develop knowledge and understanding of religion, providing learners with the ability to think critically and reflect personally. 

As a Trust, Discovery RE is used to deliver Religious Education lessons of the highest quality, providing a range of planning and assessment materials to support the delivery and enhance the skills of the learners.   

The belief of Discovery RE is that, using an enquiry-based model well, children’s critical thinking skills can be developed, their motivation to learn increased, and their knowledge and understanding of, and empathy with people and their beliefs, religious or otherwise, will be enhanced. This approach takes very seriously the philosophy that children are free to make their own choices and decisions concerning religion and belief. RE does not try to persuade but rather to inform and develop the skills with which evaluation can take place. 

Discovery RE advocates an enquiry model with a 4-step approach as the basis for implementation. Every unit (enquiry) is based around a key question. The key question for the enquiry is such that it demands an answer that weighs up ‘evidence’ (subject knowledge) and reaches a conclusion based on this. This necessitates learners using their subject knowledge and applying it to the enquiry question, rather than this knowledge being an end in itself. Discovery RE focuses on critical thinking skills, on personal reflection into the learner’s own thoughts and feelings, on growing subject knowledge and nurturing spiritual development. 

Assessment is a major contributor in evidencing the impact and this needs to be tracked to ensure that  learners are building on their skills and knowledge over time. It can then show progression and also uniformity between parallel classes ensuring that in-school gaps or anomalies are dealt with. 

Parents and carers have the right to withdraw their child from all or part of the RE curriculum. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the school.