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)

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)