Religious Education has a significant role for the development of pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. At West Croft, we aim to promote respect and open-mindedness towards others with different faiths and beliefs. We encourage pupils to develop their sense of identity and belonging through self-awareness and reflection.

Christianity is taught in every year group and the enquiry approach adds challenge, requiring children to retain knowledge and apply it to each unit’s big question whilst incorporating British Values. With this, pupils also look into the religious beliefs in Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Sikhism across their time at West Croft to create a tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs.

Through using an enquiry-based model, children’s critical thinking skills will be developed, their motivation to learn increased, and their knowledge and understanding of others beliefs, and their own, will be enhanced.

Our aim is to create children that can show empathy with people and their beliefs, religious or otherwise. RE does not try to persuade into a ‘correct way’ of thinking and believing but rather to inform and develop the skills to understand that others beliefs can differ from our own.