The religious education curriculum at Grange Lane is designed to allow pupils to share their experiences and to learn from one another and the religions and beliefs in our community. It’s important that our syllabus for RE should promote understanding between all people. Religious education makes a priority of ‘a broad and balanced curriculum equipping pupils with the life skills they need to be independent and successful.’ The principle aim of RE is to engage pupils in an enquiry approach, where they can develop an understanding and appreciation for the expression of beliefs, cultural practices and influence of principle religious and worldviews in the local, national and wider global community.  The curriculum focuses on big questions to be explored about life, to find out what people believe and what difference this makes to how they live, so that pupils can make sense of religion, reflecting on their own ideas and ways of living. The curriculum focuses on three strands of religious education, Believing, Expressing and Living and is based around a key question approach, where the questions open up the content to be studied. At Grange Lane we follow ‘the Doncaster SACRE agreed syllabus for RE 2019.’  The syllabus reinforces the importance of RE as an academic discipline. It enables understanding of concepts and the development of skills and attitudes so that our pupils can explore wider issues of religion and belief in religiously literate ways. The syllabus prepares the children and young people for active citizenship in a diverse and rapidly changing world, exploring some aspects of British Values in relation to religions and worldviews.

We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about and from religions and worldviews in local, national and global contexts, to discover, explore and consider different answers to these questions. They will be equipped with systematic knowledge and understanding of a range of religions and worldviews, enabling them to develop their ideas, values and identities. Our children are encouraged to develop an aptitude for dialogue so that they can participate positively in our society, with its diverse religions and worldviews. The curriculum is designed to result in children understanding what it means to be a British Citizen or, someone from another country who lives in Britain and will develop an awareness and tolerance of living in a multi-cultural society and being mutually respectful towards the beliefs of others.  Pupils are given opportunities for the children to work interactively, using other curriculum areas e.g music, drama art, with the teacher acting as the facilitator. Specify key vocabulary is to be used and its meaning. They should be introduced to an extended range of sources and subject specific vocabulary. Pupils will know what they will be learning today and what they have been taught in previous year groups

Doncaster is a vibrant and unique community in a region of wide diversity of religion and belief. The population of Yorkshire and Humberside includes large communities of Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jewish people, Buddhists and Sikhs. Many children come from families that hold non-religious life stances such as Humanism. RE taught using this syllabus allows all learners to share their experiences and to learn from one another and the religions and beliefs in our community.  To develop the RE curriculum we have utilised the Doncaster SACRE agreed syllabus for RE 2019 and the RE Today scheme of work , which also identifies links to British Values, Cultural Capital, SMSC and uses a cross-curricular approach.   

Every year group’s units of work must include: