The RE curriculum at Temple Mill aims to ensure that all pupils acquire a knowledge and understanding of different religious and other worldviews along with the skills to appreciate and evaluate the varied worldviews and responses to questions, so as to be better able to develop and express their own informed worldview. 

Over time pupils will:

• acquire and develop a knowledge and understanding of different religions and other worldviews (beliefs, practises and lifestyles), including a number of the world religions, especially Christianity. 
• gain an understanding and appreciation of ultimate (fundamental, deep or big) questions.
• acquire and deploy the skills to evaluate the varied worldviews and the different responses to questions encountered, which human life poses
• become better able to clarify and develop their own informed worldviews and to express their own views on the matters and issues encountered. 

In EYFS, children will learn to develop a positive sense of themselves, and others, and to learn how to form positive and respectful relationships. They will have an awareness of different individuals and groups within their immediate community and an emerging moral and cultural awareness. 

By the end of KS1, pupils will have developed their knowledge and understanding of religions and worldviews. They will be beginning to express their own views in response to what they learn using basic subject specific vocabulary. 

Pupils should be finishing primary school with an extended understanding of religions and worldviews, asking challenging questions about religions, belief, values and human life. Pupils should be able to express their own ideas and give reasons to support their ideas and views.

Curriculum Overview

The Right to Withdraw

Parents who wish to withdraw their children from RE should be aware of its aims and what is covered in the RE curriculum and that they are given the opportunity to discuss this if they wish. It should be made clear whether the withdrawal is from the whole RE curriculum or specific parts of it. No reasons need be given.

Important - limitations to withdraw

• If pupils are withdrawn from RE, schools have a duty to supervise them, though not to provide additional teaching.  A pupil may be required to work in another area of the school, such as the library or break out area. 
• Whilst parents or carers have a right to withdraw children from RE, they should note that children may also encounter religions and beliefs and wider aspects of faith in other areas of the curriculum from which there is no right of withdrawal.
• On occasion, spontaneous questions about religious matters are raised by pupils or issues related to religion arise in other curriculum subjects such as history or citizenship (PSHE)  For example, schools promote community cohesion and help pupils to understand ideas about identity and diversity, feelings and emotions within both religious and non-religious contexts.