At Quinton Primary School we follow the Coventry and Warwickshire syllabus titled ‘Religion and Worldviews’. This scheme has recently been updated and was launched in schools in September 2024, and provides a vision for the basis of R.E until 2029. This syllabus promotes good, effective and thought-provoking RE and takes full advantage of the local context in which we live. Pupils are invited, through the syllabus, to explore matters of faith, spirituality, peace, reconciliation, community and morality.
In Coventry and Warwickshire, the purpose of RE is to pose and survey answers to deeply relevant questions that individuals and groups, from religious and non-religious worldviews, pursue in their search for meaning, purpose and truth in life.
This process will be achieved through using a multi-disciplinary approach to explore a selection of core concepts that are relevant to most religion and worldviews, at increasing depth.
The desired outcome is that pupils will become aware of their own personal worldview and the positionality that shapes it. They will become increasingly able to hold conversations about their own worldview and those of others and will be wise interpreters of the knowledge they encounter through exploration of diverse, embodied lived expressions of worldviews.
The religion and worldview approach is a new way of thinking about Religious Education. It is accessible, relevant and engaging, it is intellectually rigorous and exciting, and it invites pupils to explore the diversity of modern Britain. We all need to understand the history and ideas of the religious and nonreligious traditions that have shaped our world. That means we need to understand the diversity within those traditions, the differences between them and the common ground they share. Most of all, we need to understand what it means to live in those traditions. How do religious and non-religious people decide what is true, what is real, and what is good?
There are 7 core concepts that the syllabus believes are relevant to all religion and worldviews:
In Early Years…
Pupils encounter Religious Education and Worldviews through the first 3 concepts. They look at belonging, special people in sacred stories and how people treat each other.
In Key Stage 1…
Pupils encounter Religious Education and Worldviews through the first 5 concepts. They look at the choices they make and how these demonstrate their worldview, who to turn to for guidance, similarities in beliefs, who Jesus is and what is important for different people.
In Lower Key Stage 2…
Pupils encounter Religious Education and Worldviews through all 6 concepts. They look at the significance of nature, how views are reflected through the arts and architecture and what religion and worldviews tell us about conflict, peace and reconciliation. They also look at who or what God is and how history and religion have entwined.
In Upper Key Stage 2…
Pupils encounter Religious Education and Worldviews through all 6 concepts. They look at who Jesus is, how ancient stories are still important and why and if religions change or stay the same. They also look at what it means to ‘live well’, how beliefs shape the way we live and how our worldview impacts our understanding of death and beyond.
Please see below for the Long Term Plans for Nursery and Reception-Year 6. These show the key questions that they will cover in each half term.