Welcome to Northcote’s RE Page!
Our R.E. Subject Leader is Mr McMurtry.
Below is an overview of our R.E Curriculum:
RE Overview 2024-2025
R.E. at Northcote
At Northcote, we base our work on the following religions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. Our work is based around how people worship in each religion, we read religious stories and discover how we can learn from each religion. To support our teaching and learning in R.E and deliver the locally agreed syllabus for Liverpool, we have adopted the ‘Jigsaw R.E’ scheme of work.
The Liverpool syllabus lists three aims of RE – these are listed below and referred to in the learning outcomes.
The RE curriculum aims to ensure that all pupils…
A. Know about and understand a range of religions and worldviews.
B. Express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religions and worldviews.
C. Gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with religions and worldviews.
The Liverpool syllabus is structured around enquiry-based units in all key stages and Jigsaw RE also uses enquiry-based units.
Jigsaw RE is an enquiry-based approach to Religion and Worldviews Education, a different enquiry for every half-term focusing on one religion at a time.
The aim is to deepen children’s critical thinking skills through greater subject knowledge and also to allow their own spiritual development.
Each enquiry has a big enquiry question e.g. What is the best way for a Sikh to show commitment to God? and this is explored with a 4-step process:
Engagement (How can I make connections between my world and the world of religion?)
Investigation (What do I need to learn about the religion in order to answer the big question)
Evaluation (How well can I apply this knowledge to the big question using critical thinking/evaluation
skills?)
Expression (Can I express what difference this enquiry has made to me, my thinking and my starting
point?)
Which religions when in the Liverpool Agreed Syllabus 2021?
The Liverpool syllabus stipulates the following coverage:
In Reception, Children will encounter Christianity and other faiths, as part of their growing sense of self, their own community and their place within it.
During Key Stage 1 Pupils study Christianity and Islam or Judaism
During Key Stage 2 Pupils study Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism
The curriculum map at the top of this page outlines which religions are covered in each year group in line with the locally agreed syllabus.
Staff are trained internally by the RE coordinator of any new developments in the subjects and given insight into new resources that may be of use in the classroom. The RE coordinator attends RE courses offered by the local authority.
RE is allocated time during foundation sessions, occasionally teachers may prefer to teach a unit in a block to strengthen a particular topic. The Northcote prayer is a weekly feature of the KS1 and KS2 assemblies, reinforcing morals and values expected from all pupils.
RE is given a yearly budget and this is spent on a range of resources that can support learning in the classroom.
R.E. Policy
(Reviewed policy to be uploaded.)