Religious Education is inclusive for all children taught throughout the school following the Manchester Diocese Syllabus and reflects the overall aims, values, and philosophy of the school. At St Thomas Leesfield, Christianity plays an important role in the children’s learning as we are a Church of England school. Religious Education links in with all other curriculum areas, particularly PSHE and British Values, in promoting the spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development of our children.

We encourage our pupils to ask questions about the world and to reflect on their own beliefs, values and experiences. Our Ethos is developed around the 18 Christian values and underpins everything we do in our school.

Religious Education Curriculum is high quality, well thought out and is cohesively sequenced and planned to demonstrate progression.  Through our whole school ethos and the teaching of RE we aim to:

• Ensure our Christian ethos underpins everything we do with Christ at the centre.
• Using the ‘Understanding Christianity’ resource, Agreed Syllabus and discrete weekly RE lessons, ensure that the children have the opportunity to fully immerse in their learning and embed the teaching and ‘Sticky Learning’ objectives (see Subject Leaders Long Term Plans).
• Provide a celebration of learning for each topic which demonstrates progression across the school.
• Provide weekly lessons covering events in the Liturgical Year and Bible stories / work.
• Embed a Class RE Book, to develop the children’s thoughts and feelings around the R.E. topics and Christian values/themes.
• Develop and deepen their thinking and understanding of religious festivals. Enhanced through Rev Woodall’s ‘Experiences’ in church linked to important Christian celebrations.
• Evidence Pupil Voice/Pupil discussions about their learning through Pupils Chats and Ethos Committee. (Headteachers as well as Subject Leaders).
• Plan and organise a range of visiting vicars and clergy to develop the children’s understanding of Christianity and other faiths.
• Plan and organise visits to other religious places such as local Mosques.
• Enable our Year 3 and 5 children to take part in the Linking Project to work with a different Oldham primary school (Mayfield) to develop links and friendships with children from another culture and religion.
• Build on their understanding of ‘The Big Story’ through the ‘Understanding Christianity’ frieze.
• Strengthen links between school and church through our regular celebrations in church and work with Rev Woodall.

Our children experience and learn about Judaism, Hinduism and Islam during their time at St Thomas’. We value the religious background of all members of the school community and hope that this will encourage individuals to share their own experiences with others freely.  All religions and their communities are treated with respect and sensitivity and we value the links, which are, and can be made between home, school, and a faith community.  We promote teaching in Religious Education that stresses open enquiry and first-hand experiences wherever possible for both staff and children.

Please access the documents below.

	Reception SMSC Curriculum	[pdf 233KB]
	Year 1 SMSC Curriculum	[pdf 184KB]
	Year 2 SMSC Curriculum	[pdf 184KB]
	Year 3 SMSC Curriculum	[pdf 158KB]
	Year 4 SMSC Curriculum	[pdf 187KB]
	Year 5 SMSC Curriculum	[pdf 187KB]
	Year 6 SMSC Curriculum	[pdf 187KB]