Religious Education
The school recognises the importance of children having a sound understanding of their faith, its stories, teachings and practices. The school follows the Religious Education Directory (RED) scheme of work. Religion lessons aim to inspire and engage pupils, developing their understanding and skills whilst recognising the unique nature of the subject and the importance of cultivating a sense of awe and wonder. Inclusion is an important part of all of our teaching and learning and pupils achieve highly in Religious Education and making good progress both during the year and throughout their time at the school.
All students receive Religious Education from the moment they start, to the moment they leave school. As an academic subject it is rigorously planned and delivered with the same expertise as all other core subjects. However, Religious Education is more than just an academic subject. It informs our faith, nurtures our personal quest for God and inspires us to continue on our quest for a greater understanding of God and God’s creation.
St. Alban’s aims to:
- meet the needs of our young people of today in the light of the Church’s faith in Jesus Christ
- strive to uphold the Gospel values as exemplified by Himself.
The Catholic Faith is presented to all pupils through the experience of living, working and praying together; through the Scriptures, the Liturgy and through the Doctrine.
Religious Education Directory (RED)
The RED has been intentionally designed around the model of a ‘spiral curriculum’, with themes and concepts revisited throughout the primary RE curriculum. To signal this, six themes (referred to as curriculum branches) are used to frame the topics covered each year. The child at a Catholic school is being invited to approach RE as a curriculum or learning journey that they follow each year, which delves deeper each subsequent year. The framing curriculum branches are: Creation and Covenant, Prophecy and Promise, Galilee to Jerusalem, Desert to Garden, To the ends of the earth, and Dialogue and encounter.
