Religious Education

Our Vision for Religious Education

Our aim is for the children of Holy Trinity Church School to be excited and enthused by R.E. as we strive to broaden and deepen their ideas and understanding within an atmosphere of tolerance and respect.

We follow the guidance of the Church of England Statement of Entitlement and the Church of England Vision for Education - Deeply Christian, Serving the Common Good.

Key documents

RE Statement of Entitlement for Church Schools

RE Progression Grid

Overview

As a Church of England School, R.E. and the purpose and significance of worship are embedded across our Curriculum. Together with Holy Trinity Church, we have selected seven Christian principles to underpin our work. These are Love, Kindness, Co-operation, Trust, Responsibility, Respect and Honesty.

As an Academy, we have created our own R.E. syllabus. We have drawn together elements from Understanding Christianity, Discovery RE, and Awareness, Mystery and Values to provide the RE curriculum for our children.  

Two-thirds of the RE curriculum is focused on Christianity and uses the Understanding Christianity resource, with themes such as; creation, incarnation, salvation and God, please see the RE Curriculum Overview for more detail.

One-third of the RE curriculum uses the Discovery RE resource.  Each year group learns about a different religion, with some year groups in Key Stage 2 revisiting a religion first learnt during Key Stage 1.  Please see the RE Curriculum Overview for more detail.

RE lessons include a range of activities across the unit such as discussion, role-play and hot-seating, alongside many creative tasks such as art and music.  For example, children may be asked to write an additional verse for a Christian worship song, or design a new symbol for a particular religion.  Where possible, we invite visitors in to talk to the children or take the children to visit a local church.

Each term we hold a Spirituality Day with a different theme or focus.  The day starts with an Agape service planned and led by one year group.  The whole school comes together and as part of the Agape, we take part in the sharing of food.  The rest of the day involves exploring the theme in different ways, often creatively.  

The theme of recent Spiritulity Days have included ‘Let Your Light Shine!’, 'Christianity Around the World' and 'Advent'.  We were pleased to hold our Advent Agape in the church and delighted that the parents of year 5 were able to join us and be involved in our special service.

Right of Withdrawal 

Any parent can request permission for their child to be excused from attending religious worship by arranging to see Mr. Beauford to discuss alternative arrangements".