Religious Education

Vision

We recognise that Christ is at the centre of our school and the teaching of Religious Education is at the heart of the curriculum and ethos of St John’s Catholic Primary School. This permeates through every aspect of school life. We believe that, through example and teaching, our children will come to know of God’s love and compassion for everyone, and work towards living by the Gospel values following the example that Jesus gave us to “Love one another as I have loved you.” We hope to foster a sensitive and reflective attitude to life.

We firmly believe that

“Christ is the centre of our school community where we live, love and learn together”

The aim of Religious Education in St John’s Catholic Primary School is to provide a programme that takes into account the religious and educational needs of our children. It is for all. It is a collaborative activity which respects and promotes the child’s innate capacity for wonder, awe and reverence i.e. for the ‘spiritual’. To ensure this will follow the Archdiocese Curriculum recommendations ''To know You more clearly' for Nursery- Year 3 and 'Come and See' in years 4-6 for more information click here

Our aims are:

For RE to be a core subject central to the life of our school, taught discreetly and developmentally.
To engage with the deepest questions of life, deepening knowledge and understanding and the application to life itself.
To provide opportunities to apply and use their knowledge and skills in cross-curricular studies to deepen their understanding and think creatively.
For pupils and staff to engage with their own and others’ beliefs and values so that we all have a love of learning and a desire to go on learning.
To engage with questions of meaning and purpose enabling others to think critically about their own questions of meaning and purpose.
To offer children a sense of self worth through their experience of belonging to a caring community and an awareness of the demands of religious commitment in everyday life.

The Religious Education Curriculum Directory reveals the Good News and makes the little stories of children meet the big stories told by the disciples.

Wonder at God's gifts inevitably flows into reflection and enjoyment of the gifts, into prayers of praise and thanksgiving.

Through the curriculum, children learn about the story of the life, death and risen Jesus through sacred texts, parables, sensory experiences, the symbols and gestures of the sacraments.

The curriculum shares the importance of each individual’s gift and talents in producing, writing, using and learning. In responding to this encounter, children learn that dignity, loving friendships, responsibility, care for our world and its people, and peace are values they meet in Jesus, who calls everyone to live a life of love.

In order to achieve this we follow the Liverpool Archdiocesan R.E. programmes 'To know You more clearly' in EYFS-Year 3 and “Come and See” in Years 4-6.

To know You more clearly explores the same 6 strands across the year groups and 'Come and See' follows a central theme but each year group study different topics. In addition to the topics studied, one week is dedicated to Judaism and one week to Islam/Hinduism (2 year cycle).