Our school follows the revised RE syllabus for Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford.

We organise the RE curriculum through RE focused weeks to ensure that it is taught as a discrete subject.  RE is also covered in collective worship, visits to places of worship, through school nativity productions and through learning about festivals. 

Children begin to learn about RE in EYFS thinking about which stories and places are special and why. They also think about where we belong and why our world in special. Nursery and Reception will encounter religions and worldviews through special people, books, times, places and objects.  They will listen to and talk about stories with religious links. 

From Year 1 to Year 6, pupils explore three key themes across the year:

• Believing

• Expressing

• Living

Each half term, pupils focus on one key question that helps them explore what people believe, how these beliefs influence their lives, and how this relates to their own ideas and experiences.  The three key themes; believing, expressing and living are revisited throughout each year group with prior knowledge and skills revisited and built on as children progress through the school. 

The syllabus introduces children to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as non‑religious worldviews such as Humanism. Learning builds progressively each year, revisiting and deepening prior knowledge.

RE allows pupils’ the ability to engage with ideas about British values, such as tolerance and respect for people who hold varied beliefs and world views.  RE contributes to pupils’ readiness to participate in life in modern, diverse Britain.  RE is never coercive: this area of learning is not about making pupils into believers but tries to help them become literate and articulate about religions and beliefs, and to be thoughtful members of a society, so that in learning from religion they are able to make informed choices about how they want to live their lives whilst also understanding more about the faith of other people they meet. 

Parents in England have the legal right to withdraw their child from all or part of Religious Education and/or collective worship under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. This applies to all state-funded schools, including academies and free schools.