Intent

At Studley Infants' School, our Religious Education teaching follows the Coventry and Warwickshire Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education (2024), developed in partnership with Coventry and Warwickshire's SACREs and the Coventry Diocesan Board of Education.  The syllabus is rooted in a religion and worldviews approach, reflecting current thinking and ensuring our curriculum is innovative, inclusive and academically rigorous.

We believe here at Studley Infants' that everyone has a worldview.  Some worldviews may be religious, some are non-religious, but all are personal and individual.  Our RE curriculum recognises and values diversity, enabling pupils to explore, understand and reflect on their own developing worldviews while learning about those of others.

Through this scheme, RE is taught as a journey, where pupils are encouraged to see themselves as 'Worldview Explorers'.  Learning begins with the particular: children's own experiences and the lived experiences of individuals and communities; and grandually moves towards the general: developing and understanding of the shared characteristics and traditions of organised worldviews.

Our curriculum:

• Promotes curiosity, respect and understanding of different religious and non-religious worldviews
• Encourages pupils to explore  how beliefs are lived, interpreted and expressed in diverse ways
• Reflects our local context in Warwickshire while also considering the wider world
• Supports pupils to develop their own personal responsibility, sense of belonging and beliefs

Learning is structured around core concepts which are revisited and deepened through a spiral curriculum, ensuring progression over time.  These include:

• Belonging and Believing
• Wisdom and Guidance
• Personal Responsibility
• Living Well (KS1 only)
• Authority and Power (KS1 only)
• Changes (KS1 only)

Through RE, pupils develop the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to engage thoughtfully with a changing world, preparing them to live well alongside others with differing beliefs and values.

Implementation

RE at Studley Infants' is taught through carefully sequenced units of learning, each shaped by an enquiry question or 'Big Questions'.  These questions arise where core concepts intersect with three key ways of knowing (the disciplinary knowledge):

• Theology - Exploring beliefs, teachings and sources.
• Philosophy - Asking and responding to deep questions about meaning, truth and morality.
• Human and Social Sciences - Understanding how worldviews are lived out in communities and societies.

In some units, Historical Perspectives are also used to support understanding.

Key features of our implementation include:

• A spiral curriculum, where concepts and knowledge and revisited and built upon over time
• Opportunities for pupils to explore both local and global contexts
• Teaching that focuses on lived experiences, avoiding oversimplification and stereotypes

The knowledge has been selected to reflect a changing and diverse world, supporting both breadth and depth of understanding, that will help pupils to make connections between beliefs, values and ways of life.

Assessment in the subject is used to ensure that pupils develop and retain the disciplinary knowledge and skills; can recall and apply key substantive knowledge over time and make progress towards clearly defined end points.