Religious Education

At Cedars Primary School and Nursery our Religious Education curriculum aims to develop deep thinkers who are open-minded about religion and worldviews. We use carefully planned units from KAPOW and the Milton Keynes agreed syllabus to ensure our curriculum is relevant to pupils, reflecting and preparing them for life in modern Britain.

Through the scheme, children will secure a deep understanding of concepts in order to be able to make connections, ask and respond to challenging questions, learn to respect and appreciate worldviews that are different to their own and consider their personal preconceptions, responses and views.

Children will build their conceptual knowledge through studying religions and worldviews locally, nationally and globally in our progressive curriculum, enabling them to make links and connections between worldviews, develop disciplinary skills and build on their understanding of their positionality in relation to their learning.

By visiting key ‘big questions’ and building on prior knowledge, pupils will learn about how religion and worldviews are lived experiences across the world, consider the impact of worldviews on society and have opportunities to consider their personal worldviews.

Kapow’s scheme alongside the Milton Keynes syllabus, enables pupils to meet the government guidance, which states that RE must reflect that ‘the religious traditions in Great Britain are, in the main, Christian while taking account of the teaching and practices of the other principal religions represented in Great Britain’.