Religious Education

From September 2025, we will be following the new Gloucestershire Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education (2025). The Syllabus asserts the importance and value of religious education for all pupils, with on-going benefits for an open, articulate and understanding society. At Mitton Manor, We view Religious Education as a major element in the spiritual, moral and cultural education provision and as a means by which children acquire knowledge and understanding of major world religions, an appreciation of ultimate questions and responses to them, and an opportunity to develop their own believes, values and worldviews.

(Gloucestershire Agreed Syllabus 2025 - 2030)

RE at Mitton Manor

In RE at Mitton Manor Primary School, we want our children to develop and understanding of the major world religions as well as an appreciation of nonreligious worldviews. We want the children to enjoy their learning through stories and texts, asking and answering questions and taking part in religious practices. Children enjoy philosophy for children sessions to explore non-religious worldviews. At Mitton Manor, our children will acquire knowledge and understanding of major world religions, an appreciation of ultimate questions and responses to them, and an opportunity to develop their own believes and values. We want Mitton Manor children to leave school being able to reflect on their own ideas, values and ways of living and apply these to their lifestyles.

Mitton Manor's RE Highlights

At our school, Religious Education (RE) plays an important role in helping children to develop their understanding of the world around them. This year we have introduced the new RE scheme for Gloucestershire which ensures that our curriculum is broad, balanced, and engaging for all pupils. Through carefully planned lessons, children are given the opportunity to learn about different religions and world beliefs, exploring key teachings, traditions, and celebrations. They also consider what it is like to live in the UK today as part of a community that is made up of many different faiths and worldviews.

We believe that RE should be an active and enriching subject. To support this, children benefit from a range of high-quality experiences, including talks from guest speakers representing different religions, the use of rich artefacts and resources loaned through Gloucestershire Library Services, and visits to local places of worship. These experiences help to bring learning to life, allowing children to ask questions, share ideas, and develop curiosity, respect, and understanding for people of all backgrounds and beliefs.

Our RE teaching reflects the wider values of our school, encouraging children to show kindness, respect, and tolerance, and helping them to grow into thoughtful and responsible members of their community.

Important Religious Education Documents

We aim through our teaching to encourage pupils to understand:
 

• a variety of responses to and understandings of the world as presented by religious and non-religious worldviews
• relationships between beliefs, teachings, forms of expression within organised worldviews, and the lived experience of adherents
• questions of meaning, purpose and truth, including about ultimate reality, and how these questions may be posed, addressed, understood, evaluated and responded to differently within worldviews and across disciplines
• the concepts, language and ways of knowing that help organise and make sense of religion and worldviews
• how to deploy a range of different tools and methods used to investigate religious and non-religious worldviews
• how their own personal worldview shapes their encounters with and responses to the world, and how their context, experiences and study can shape their personal worldview.

(Gloucestershire Agreed Syllabus 2025-2030)

The Right of Withdrawal from Religious Education:

Religion and belief have become more visible in public life in recent years, making it important that all pupils should have an opportunity to engage in RE.  However, parents or carers may request that their child/ children be excused from all or part of the religious education (RE) lessons provided.

Parents should request or discuss this with the head teacher prior to withdrawal.