RE
Overview
At St James’s, we believe that RE is an integral part of our broad and balanced curriculum. We aim to explore what people believe and what difference this makes to how they choose to live their lives. RE lessons at St James’s foster children’s curiosity in exploring the concept of religion and enable them to gain the knowledge, skills and understanding to reflect upon questions raised by religion and belief whilst displaying respect and tolerance for those who have different beliefs to their own. In additional to this, the journey that our children embark on encourages them to reflect upon what we learn from each religion in order to apply this to their own lives, choices and values. In turn, this allows our children to make informed decisions about their own religious beliefs.
Useful Links
Church of England Religious Education - click here
RE Long term plan - click here
RE Rationale - click here
Withdrawing from RE lessons
Parents and Carers have a right to withdraw their child, wholly or partly from:
Receiving religious education (RE) given in the school in accordance with the school's basic curriculum.
Attendance at religious worship in the school
As set out in section 71(1) of the https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/31/section/71
If you would like to withdraw your child from RE please organise a meeting with the Headteacher so that this can be discussed.
Where a child is removed from RE at their parent's request the school has a duty to supervise the pupils but not to:
Provide additional teaching of RE
Incur additional costs
