RE Curriculum

Intent

Holy Family aims to educate the whole person in body, mind and soul and to help develop the unique gifts and talents of each individual.

Our Religious Education curriculum aims to:

• Present comprehension content based on the knowledge and understanding of the Catholic faith;
• Enable children to deepen their religious and theological understanding and be able to communicate effectively;
• Develop an authentic vision of the church’s moral and social teaching;
• Raise children’s awareness of the faith and traditions of other religious communities to bring out respect and understanding;
• Develop children’s ability to relate their Catholic faith to daily life;
• Enable children to relate the knowledge they have gained from Religious Education to other subjects;
• Bring clarity to the relationship between faith and life, and between faith and culture.

We use the Religious Education Directory (RED), which was published in June 2023. All year groups will be utilising some resources from a scheme called 'Magister' to support their learning. 

All catholic schools should dedicate 10% of their timetable to the teaching of RE, which roughly equates to 2.5 hours.

Although we are a Catholic school and hope that all families are supportive of our Catholic ethos, parents do reserve the right to withdraw their children from Religious Education.