RE

Religious education at Garlinge Primary School and Nursery seeks to make a major contribution to the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils by helping them gain a knowledge and understanding of major world religions, an appreciation that religions are a way of life and not an abstract system of ideas and the ability to develop their own religious beliefs.

At Garlinge we follow the RE Today model syllabus for Religious Education (RE). RE is taught through the medium of key questions for each year group/ key stage and various world religious are studied in order to discuss these questions including: Christianity; Judaism; Islam; Sikhism; Buddhism and Hinduism. This curriculum has variety, breadth and balance to education enquiring minds. 

Pupils experience a wide variety of teaching and learning activities appropriate to the subject matter to be covered. Pupils will have the opportunity to access the RE curriculum through:

• Engaging in classroom lessons
• Reading texts
• Researching their own information on tablets
• Discussion
• Pair and group work
• Use of the media, i.e. videos, artefacts, pictures, music and drama
• Visits and visitors
• Outside learning experiences 
• Assemblies