Intent:

To prepare students for life in modern Britain by developing students' abilities to:

• Understand the world's major religious and non-religious beliefs.
• Appreciate the lives of those who seek to practice these different beliefs and ways of life.
• Evaluate of the above in the context of both modern multi-cultural UK and the world at large.
• To be personally enriched and intellectually challenged: to think critically (analysis) and empathetically (tolerance) about a broad range of issues so that they can genuinely and generously represent another person's point of view, whilst still having confident convictions about their own.
• Debate articulately with each other about various issues in a spirit of generous, humble and patient enquiry.

In short: to help students to become more curious, considerate, compassionate and confident about the world around them.

Implementation:

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*In accordance with the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 section 71, parents have the right to withdraw their children from all or part of RE and acts of collective worship on religious grounds. Parents should make their wishes known to the Headteacher who will ensure that any pupils who are withdrawn are appropriately supervised while the act of collective worship / RE lesson takes place. Pupils can be withdrawn wholly or partly from acts of collective worship only by parents.