Our RE Curriculum
At Mount Pleasant we follow the Oak Academy scheme of work. This curriculum prepares pupils to navigate the diversity of religious and non-religious worldviews they may encounter at school and throughout their lives. Pupils will build their understanding of religious and non-religious worldviews in human life, their teaching and traditions as well as the day-to-day experience of followers. Our aim is that through studying these, pupils understand the place of religion and non-religion in Britain today.
We introduce pupils to a breadth of case studies as an essential way of understanding the diversity within religious and non-religious worldviews. For example, pupils learn how different people relate to rituals such as baptism or naming a child. We build complexity by introducing pupils to different worldviews within religion, such as Shi’a pilgrimage to Karbala in key stage 2. We also explore the reasons for our religious landscape in the UK and how people live religion differently around the world. For example, we study Buddhist communities in both the UK and Asia.
We acknowledge that pupils approach RE from their own position or perspective, influenced by their values, experiences, and sense of identity. Our curriculum enables pupils to reflect on their own perspective when they encounter different people, worldviews or subject content. For example, after learning about reconciliation in South Africa, pupils reflect on the idea of forgiveness. In key stage 3 pupils examine how different Sikhs might understand the concept of sewa in relation to equality and then relate this to their own position.
Our curriculum develops pupils’ understanding of disciplines and methods in RE. Each unit is driven by one of three disciplines; social science, philosophy or theology. Pupils will learn about and apply disciplinary questions, tools and methods. For example, social science drives a key stage 2 unit on pilgrimage, as pupils explore case studies of followers who made pilgrimage and consider what they might tell us about the impact of pilgrimage.
"You have the right to choose your own religion and beliefs." Article 14
Subject Leader: Mrs Blackham