At Westfield Primary Academy, we believe that a high-quality religious education will help pupils’ gain a coherent knowledge and understanding, where they can articulate clearly and confidently their personal beliefs, ideas, values and experiences.

RE is taught using the ‘Emmanuel project ‘which is a Suffolk agreed RE syllabus 2014 however, it was refined and updated in 2020 to continue to meet the needs of the curriculum and deepen understanding.  The carefully selected content of the Emmanuel project enables us to provide a consistent whole school approach to RE.

Progression is evident through building upon the pupil’s prior knowledge, allowing them to follow the steps of engaging, enquiring and exploring the different religions, leading to the process of evaluating and expressing to ensure understanding and progress is made. This should inspire and build each child’s ‘religious literacy’, helping them to understand the nature and diversity of religion and belief in the world in which they live and the relationships between different groups of society.

RE offers distinctive opportunities to promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development allowing time for reflection, discussion, dialogue and debate. 

Aims of the Religious Education Curriculum

Although, the Suffolk syllabus is not required in Early Years, the children explore the three major concepts of creation, incarnation and salvations in a way that they can relate to and through experiences which are familiar. Children also have the opportunity to explore and compare other major world religions in order to extend their knowledge and understanding. These units support opportunities within the church calendar, with learning focusing on Christmas, Easter and new beginnings.

The national curriculum for religious education aims to ensure our pupils in;

• Key Stage One
  • Learn about the place of religion and belief in their local community
  • Learn about key features of Christianity
  • Learn about key features of at least one other religion or non- religious worldview

• Key Stage Two
  • Learn about the nature of religion and belief
  • Learn about Christianity
  • Learn about at least two other religions and/or worldviews

Please click on any of the attached documents to view the Intent, Implementation and Impact of our Religious Education Curriculum.