RE | St. Margaret's C.E. Junior School

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Religious Education – RE

As a Church of England school, the teaching of Religious Education at St Margaret’s is central to our curriculum. The 1988 Education Act states that ‘Religious Education has equal standing in relation to core subjects of the National Curriculum in that it is compulsory for all registered pupils’.

Through our Religious Education curriculum, we aim:

to engage pupils in enquiring into and exploring questions arising from the study of religion, faith and belief, so as to promote their personal, spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
to provide our pupils with the knowledge and understanding of Christianity and other principal religious faiths, traditions and beliefs represented in Great Britain and the wider world.
to develop our pupils’ understanding of the ways in which beliefs influence people’s behaviour, practices and outlook.
to enable our pupils to develop a positive attitude towards people who hold religious beliefs different from their own.
to enable our pupils to apply the insights of the principal religious faiths and traditions to their own search for identity and significance.
to enable our pupils to become aware of their own beliefs and values and to have a positive attitude to the search for meaning and purpose in life.