Religious Education

At Dore Primary School, our children receive high-quality RE lessons that enable them to grow up to be healthy, kind, responsible and independent members of society with an awareness of those with a faith and what spirituality means to them. We aim to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, and to tackle many of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up locally, nationally and globally.

We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society.   Our children are able to understand and empathise with those who have a faith, and have the skills necessary to support each other as they grow up in a diverse, changing world. We want them to feel confident in their sense of self, to understand who they are, what makes them special and the importance of celebrating the differences between each other. We want them to feel empowered to navigate their way through life being able to manage the various risks that they will face, with knowledge, confidence and resilience. Throughout this journey, we want them to make choices that keep themselves and others safe, and know what to do and who they can go to if they ever need help or support.  

Please note: all parents and carers have the right to withdraw their child from all or part of RE.

We use Discovery RE Scheme of Work to teach discrete RE lessons at Dore Primary School. This scheme uses an enquiry-based approach which also links to the statutory RE required in the Sheffield Curriculum “Enquiring Minds”.  The scheme is a progressive and sequential programme building on the skills and learning intentions in each year group.   Our learning also links to our school expectations and values, the Early Years Development Matters Document in FS2, SMSC opportunities, British Values (Democracy, Rule of Law, individual Liberty, Mutual Respect, Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs) and skills and attitudes to enquiry-based learning.   We work with our local community by visiting different places of worship. We have opportunities to visit Christ Church Dore, Madinah Mosque and Sheffield Cathedral to link with our units of work. We welcome visitors to school where this links to learning.

Through the development of our values led teaching we are always looking out for opportunities to celebrate diversity and to show respect and understanding to those with or without a faith or belief in a religion.

RE – INTENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT STATEMENT: