Our Intent

The Religious Education curriculum at Brookland Junior School aims to inspire pupils’ natural curiosity with a ‘Big Question’ that respects and understands other cultures and beliefs. This exploration of enquiry allows pupils to express their own critical responses whilst investigating and building on prior learning. 

RE is an interactive subject for discussion of ethics and morality. It enables pupils to consider what people believe and do, why they believe it, and the impact these beliefs have on their everyday lives. It supports a ‘worldviews’ approach of contextualised self-reflection, open exploration of religious/non-religious content, concepts and experiences from institutional and individual religion/worldview and universal application of concepts to pupils’ sense of their place in the world. 

Brookland Junior School follows the Hertfordshire SACRE Agreed Syllabus of Religious Education (2023-2028), divided into eight key areas, covered across each key stage to ensure progression in the belief system whilst avoiding unnecessary repetition of content. Here, clear learning objectives that are measurable and achievable for all pupils are set. Alongside this, picture stimuli, sources of wisdom, artefacts, clips, visits or visitors are used to create and support interactive and engaging lessons.