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.

 

Aims of Religious Education

At our school, Religious Education aims:

  1. To develop children’s knowledge and understanding of the key principles, values, beliefs and teachings of Christianity, with a particular focus on the Anglican tradition.
  2. To provide a wide range of encounters with religion and worldviews which help pupils form coherent views of the world and apply these to their own experiences.
  3. To encourage and develop children’s interest and opinions about concepts that are common to humanity and religion, enabling them to recognise and express their own values and beliefs.
  4. To enable children to consider the effects religion and worldviews have on people’s lives, and to understand and respect different beliefs, values and traditions.
  5. To enable each child to make reasoned, philosophical and informed judgements on religious, spiritual and moral issues.
  6. To provide opportunities for children to reflect on, analyse and evaluate beliefs, values and practices using appropriate subject vocabulary and disciplinary approaches.
  7. To foster attitudes such as curiosity, open-mindedness, self-understanding, respect, wonder and appreciation which are fundamental to spiritual development and human flourishing.
  8. To enable children to recognise and appreciate values such as integrity, faithfulness, compassion, generosity, courage, justice and love.
  9. To understand the importance and value of living within diverse communities and contributing positively to society.
  10. To support pupils in understanding democracy, mutual respect, individual liberty, tolerance and the rule of law in line with British Values and the Prevent Duty.
  11. To develop pupils’ religious literacy so that they can engage critically, respectfully and knowledgeably with religion and belief in contemporary society.