RE (Religious Education at Bransgore)
“From Loving Roots, we are Growing in the Forest”
Our vision is deeply rooted in John 13:34-35: “Love one another as I have loved you.”
This call to love is not passive. It is an invitation to challenge, support, and raise one another up recognising that each child and adult is a unique creation of God, worth of effort, dignity, and care. Like a forest, our community grows stronger through connection, diversity, and nurture.
We are inspired by Psalm 1:3: “They are like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither – whatever they do prospers”.
Our vision is that everyone flourishes like the tree in Psalm 1, deeply rooted, nurtured by God’s word, and resilient in faith. We believe that flourishing means more than achievement: it means living a full, hopeful, and purposeful life, growing in wisdom, strength and love.
With this in mind…
Every child at Bransgore Primary School will have the opportunity to flourish in R.E. through the high quality, sequential teaching of a range of religious traditions and worldviews. Children will explore, ask and answer challenging questions through an enquiry-based approach, drawing on the disciplines of theology, philosophy and social sciences as a way of understanding what others believe and how this can impact on the way they may choose to live.
A learner in R.E. will:
- Acquire a rich, deep knowledge of a variety of beliefs and practices
- Explore core concepts relating to religious traditions and worldviews
- Develop both knowledge of religious traditions and worldviews and skills, including enquiry, analysis, interpretation, evaluation and reflection
- Understand the role of foundational texts, beliefs, rituals and practices in a range of religious traditions and worldviews
- Engage in discussions which encourage spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
- Show tolerance of and respect for different religious traditions and worldviews
- Appreciate the diverse, global nature of religious traditions and worldviews
- Explore their own religious, spiritual and/or philosophical ways of seeing, values, living, thinking, believing and belonging