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Castle Bromwich Infant School

    • Religious Education

    Intent 

    Religion and beliefs shape our values and show up in what we say and how we behave. RE is an important subject in developing an individual’s knowledge and understanding of the religions and beliefs which form part of society. Religious Education provokes challenging questions about the meaning and purpose of life, beliefs about God and oneself, right and wrong, and what it means to be human.

    Through RE, pupils are encouraged to demonstrate kindness by showing respect, empathy, and understanding towards others, recognising the importance of compassion in a diverse world. They develop perseverance as they engage with complex ideas, reflect deeply, and explore challenging questions about belief, identity, and values. RE also fosters a sense of belonging, helping pupils to understand their place within their school, local, and global communities, and to appreciate the shared human experiences that connect people of all faiths and world-views.

    RE develops pupils’ knowledge and understanding of principal religions, other religious traditions, and world-views. It also contributes to pupils’ personal development and well-being, offering opportunities for reflection and spiritual growth, and deepening their understanding of the significance of religion in the lives of others – individually, communally, and cross-culturally.

    At Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery School, our curriculum is underpinned by three core values that shape every aspect of our children's learning journey: perseverance, belonging, and kindness. These values are not simply words on our walls – they are the driving forces that inform our curriculum intent, implementation, and the impact we strive to achieve for every child.

    Perseverance is woven throughout our curriculum to ensure that all children develop resilience, determination, and a growth mindset. We design learning experiences that challenge our pupils appropriately, teaching them that mistakes are valuable opportunities for learning and that sustained effort leads to success. Through carefully sequenced teaching and supportive scaffolding, we help children build the confidence to tackle new concepts, persist when learning becomes difficult, and celebrate their progress along the way.

    Belonging is at the heart of our inclusive curriculum. We are committed to ensuring that every child – regardless of background, starting point, or individual need – feels valued, respected, and an integral part of our school community. Our curriculum celebrates diversity, promotes equality, and actively removes barriers to learning and wellbeing. We create opportunities for children to understand and appreciate different cultures, faiths, and perspectives, whilst developing a strong sense of identity and pride in who they are. Through our curriculum, children learn that they belong not only to our school community but also to the wider world, with rights and responsibilities as active citizens.

    Kindness permeates every interaction and learning opportunity within our school. Our curriculum explicitly teaches children to show empathy, compassion, and respect towards others, whilst also developing their understanding of healthy relationships and emotional wellbeing. We provide rich opportunities for children to collaborate, support one another, and contribute positively to their school and local community. Through our focus on kindness, children learn to recognise and celebrate the achievements of others, to offer help when it's needed, and to treat everyone – including themselves – with care and consideration.

    Together, these three values ensure that our curriculum not only delivers high-quality academic outcomes but also nurtures well-rounded, confident, and compassionate individuals who are prepared for their next steps in education and for life in modern Britain.

    Curriculum Drivers
    Big ideas
    Mapping
    1. Learning for Life
    2. Learning together; Making connections
    3. Learning and Living Healthily
    4. Learning and Living in our Community and the Wider World
    • Ofsted  outcomes
    • British Values
    • Anti-radicalisation
    • Critical thinking and Growth Mindset
    • Personal Development
    • Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam Judasim Sikhism
    • Progression of skills and knowledge
    • Builds on, embeds and deepens prior learning
    • Enquiry, discussion underpin teaching and learning to ensure depth subject knowledge,detailed planning

    Implementation

    We deliver our RE curriculum through ‘The Discovery RE scheme of work ’, a locally agreed syllabus. We will adopt the infant scheme of work aged 4–7. It uses an enquiry-based approach to teaching and learning. This is based upon four steps of enquiry: engagement, investigation, evaluation and expression. Christianity is taught in every year group, with Christmas and Easter given a new focus each year to develop learning progressively. The curriculum also covers Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism. Humanist perspectives are added when appropriate in some enquiries. It supports Ofsted outcomes, SMSC, British Values, Anti-radicalisation, critical thinking, growth mindset and personal development. The in-built assessment processes within each scheme allow for evidence of ‘impact’ to be easily captured and recorded.  This is supported further by our tracking software ‘Insights’.

    Teaching
    Support and challenge
    Retaining Knowledge
    • Modelling through clear presentation of subject matter
    • Responsive and adaptive to the needs of children
    • Assessment for learning throughout
    • Promoting independence through learning and play
    • Impactful questioning that promotes deeper thinking and talk
    • Promoting the use of everyday language
    • Developmentally appropriate, which leads to high levels of productivity
    • Scaffolding through resources, models, peer support and adult interaction
    • Addressing errors at the point of misconception
    • Delving deeper through questioning, both adult-led and child-led
    • Use feedback, learning conversations, play partnering and sustained shared thinking strategies to reinforce and extend learning
    • Sequential mapping and skills progression that revisits and reinforces taught content
    • Learning environment that reinforces taught knowledge and encourages application of new learning with continuous provision inviting children to turn to science as part of their play and exploration

    Impact

    Our RE curriculum has a clear impact on children’s learning and personal development. Children look forward to RE and talk confidently about what they have learnt. Through our enquiry approach, they ask big questions, listen respectfully to different viewpoints and explain their own ideas with growing confidence. They show curiosity and respect for different faiths and ways of life, and begin to reflect on what matters to them and to others. This prepares them well to live and learn in a diverse world.

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