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A Curriculum Framework for Religious Education in EnglandThe Religious Education Council of England and Wales
October 2013
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Member bodies of the RE Council October 2013
Accord CoalitionAl-Khoei FoundationAll Faiths and NoneAssociation of Christian Teachers (ACT)Association of RE Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants (AREIAC)Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education (UK)Barnabas in Schools (BRF)Bloxham ProjectBoard of Deputies of British JewsBritish Association for the Study of Religions (BASR)British Humanist AssociationThe Buddhist SocietyCambridge Muslim CollegeCatholic Association of Teachers, Schools and CollegesCatholic Education ServiceChristian Education / RE TodayChurch of England Board of EducationChurch in Wales Division for EducationChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsChurches Together in EnglandClear Vision Trust (Buddhist)Council of African and Afro-Caribbean ChurchesCulham St Gabriel’sDeanery of Great Britain and IrelandThe Farmington InstituteFBFE: The National Council of Faiths and Beliefs in Further EducationFederation of RE CentresFree Church Education CommitteeHindu Council (UK)Hindu Forum of BritainHockerill Educational Foundation
Independent Schools Religious StudiesAssociationInstitute of JainologyInter Faith Network for the United KingdomISKCON Educational ServicesIslamic AcademyJewish Teachers’ AssociationKeswick Hall TrustThe Methodist ChurchMuslim Council of BritainNational Association of Standing Advisory Councils on RENational Association of Teachers of RENational Council of Hindu Temples (UK)NBRIA National Board of (Catholic) REInspectors and AdvisersNational Society (Church of England) for Promoting Religious EducationNational Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United KingdomNetwork of Buddhist Organisations (UK)Network of Sikh OrganisationsThe Oxford FoundationPagan FederationREEP: The Religious Education and Environment ProgrammeReligious Education Movement, Wales St Luke’s College FoundationShap Working PartyStapleford CentreTheology and Religious Studies UK (TRS UK)3FF, Three Faiths ForumTony Blair Faith FoundationUnited SikhsWales Association of SACREs (WASACRE)World Congress of FaithsZoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe
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Contents
Member bodies of the RE Council October 2013 2
FOREWORD 5
INTRODUCTION 6
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: A NATIONAL CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK 9
Appendix: Expectations, progression and achievement in RE 26
Donors 31
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FOREWORD
The place of RE on the basic curriculum has always been clear and local determination of its curriculum has been part of the statutory arrangements for RE over many years. I welcome Religious education: a national curriculum framework as a national benchmark document for use by all those responsible for the RE curriculum locally. I also welcome the wider Review of RE in England of which it is part.
The RE Review, an initiative of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, takes account of wider educational aims, including the aims of the new national curriculum. In particular, it embodies respect for the law and the principles of freedom, responsibility and fairness. It demonstrates a commitment to raising expectations and standards of the RE received by all children and young people.
All children need to acquire core knowledge and understanding of the beliefs and practices of the religions and worldviews which not only shape their history and culture but which guide their own development. The modern world needs young people who are sufficiently confident in their own beliefs and values that they can respect the religious and cultural differences of others, and contribute to a cohesive and compassionate society.
RE’s place on the curriculum will be strong if its role and importance are communicated effectively and widely understood. RE in England compares favourably with equivalent curricula in high performing jurisdictions around the world, but this reputation can only be maintained with a rigorous model of RE.
This RE curriculum framework and the RE Review of which it is part provides for such a model. It has the endorsement of a very wide range of professional organisations and bodies representing faiths and other worldviews. I hope the document will be useful to all those seeking to provide RE of the highest quality for young people in our schools.
Michael Gove
Secretary of State for Education
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INTRODUCTION
Every child and young person who goes to school is entitled to an experience of religious education (RE) that is both academically challenging and personally inspiring. To that end, the RE Council of England and Wales (REC) undertook a review of the subject in England (referred to as ‘the Review’). It has drawn as widely as possible on the expertise of the RE community to develop a benchmark curriculum that promotes high quality learning and teaching in all schools in the coming years, and to map out issues for further development. School structures are becoming increasingly diverse in England. It is important that within this diversity, schools’ RE curricula give all young people the opportunity to gain an informed understanding of religious beliefs and worldviews.1
The REC began the Review early in 2012, as part of its wider strategic plan2 for developing the subject. This decision was supported by the then Minister of State for Schools, Nick Gibb MP, who described the REC as ‘well placed’ to do so in a letter to John Keast, REC Chair, on the 25th January 2012. The REC is uniquely fitted for this task, with its wide membership, the range of views from both faith-based groups and education professionals and its commitment to an inclusive approach to RE.
The main catalyst for the Review was the extensive review of the national curriculum for schools in England, undertaken by the Department for Education (DfE) from January 2011 to July 2013. RE was not part of the DfE review as it is not one of the national curriculum subjects. The REC was clear that a review of RE in England was needed for reasons of equity with other subjects. Large changes to the curriculum have implications for all subjects3, including RE. From September 2014, teachers with responsibility for RE in schools in England will be expected to plan lessons, assess pupil progress, and have their performance held to account, as other teachers do. School leaders will expect them to use the same or similar criteria to those deployed in other subjects in the curriculum. For this reason alone, a new RE curriculum document is needed to support those teachers and schools, laid out in the same style as the documents for the national curriculum.
Beyond the need for parity, a wider set of challenges for RE has arisen in the past three years, mainly as the result of large-scale changes in education made by the Coalition government. These include the introduction of the English Baccalaureate, towards whose achievement GCSE Religious Studies cannot be counted, significant reforms of GCSE and A Level qualifications, the extension of the academies programme and introduction of free schools, all of which have implications for the way in which RE and its curriculum are decided and supported. Local authority cuts have also led to the reduction of local support for RE, and the number of new trainee teachers has been slashed. The total number of GCSE Religious Studies entries has started to decline after many years of growth.
1 The REC recognises that in schools with a religious character, there is likely to be an aspiration that RE (and other aspects of school life) will contribute to pupils’ faith development.
2 http://religiouseducationcouncil.org.uk/about/strategic-plan3 The RE curriculum is set locally, not nationally. Broadly speaking, it is set for community and voluntary controlled schools by
local agreed syllabus conferences, advised by local SACREs, and by governing bodies in the case of academies, free schools and voluntary aided schools.
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The RE community has felt a sense of crisis despite government assurance. This assurance has been challenged by many stakeholders in RE and the threats to RE confirmed in a report of the RE All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), RE: The Truth Unmasked in 2013. The adverse consequences of government policy on RE’s place in schools were recognised subsequently by the Secretary of State for Education on 3rd July 2013. Addressing an event at Lambeth Palace, Michael Gove conceded that RE had been an ‘unintended casualty’ of recent curriculum reforms, and acknowledged that in thinking that RE’s ‘special status’ was protected ‘he had not done enough’. Furthermore, successive triennial Ofsted reports for RE have argued, and the APPG inquiry has confirmed, that there are significant and well-founded concerns about the uneven quality of learning and teaching in RE across the country. In this context, a review presented the RE community with an opportunity not only to reflect again on the nature and purpose of the subject and its distinctive contribution to the curriculum, and to find better ways of articulating these to a general audience, but also to seek ways of raising standards. At its best, RE is an inspirational subject for pupils, as the REC’s Young Ambassadors project has revealed.4
No public money has been allocated to support this Review, even though RE is a subject required on the curriculum of all state funded schools in England. Instead, the Review has been made possible by generous donations from REC members, charitable trusts and other interested organisations. A full list of those donors is given at the end of this document.
The REC was determined to carry out the review in a collaborative and consultative manner. It began with a scoping report in early 2012, followed by a report from an expert panel, mirroring the DfE’s National Curriculum Review, in December 2012. In 2013, task groups took forward the panel’s recommendations, and consultations were held at some points with the whole REC membership and at others with a Steering Group that represented the diversity of the REC. The final text of the Review was agreed by the REC Board on 2 October 2013 and launched at Westminster on 23 October 2013.
4 http://religiouseducationcouncil.org.uk/young-ambassadors
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The Review as a whole resulted in:1. This document - a non-statutory national curriculum framework for RE (NCFRE) to complement the new national curriculum programmes of study (2013) resulting from the DfE’s review of the school curriculum, in which RE was not included
2. Available in the full version of the report – see below - an analysis of the wider context in which RE finds itself, including the opportunities and challenges that face the implementation of the new curriculum framework.
The NCFRE sets out:• the purpose and aims of RE• the contribution of RE to the school curriculum• the breadth of study for RE• the place of RE in the early years• the knowledge, understanding and skills of RE for key stages 1 – 3• RE in key stage 4 and 16-19• an appendix on assessment.
Both 1 and 2 above are available together, and 1 is available as a stand-alone document, both in hard copy and on the REC website www.religiouseducationcouncil.org.uk
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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: A NATIONAL CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Introduction
The national curriculum states the legal requirement that:
Every state-funded school must offer a curriculum which is balanced and broadly based, and which:
• promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils, and
• prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life
and
All state schools... must teach religious education... All schools must publish their curriculum by subject and academic year online.
(‘The national curriculum in England: Framework document’, September 2013, p.4).
This national curriculum framework for RE (NCFRE) in England has been developed by the RE Council of England and Wales, through a review of RE parallel to the Department for Education’s National Curriculum Review, published in September 2013. The key audience is the range of bodies which have responsibility for making RE syllabuses in England. This includes local authority SACREs (which have responsibility for the RE curriculum through an agreed syllabus for local authority schools), academies, free schools, faith and belief communities which run schools and governing bodies in some individual schools. The REC also commends this framework as a contribution to teachers’ thinking, and to public understanding of RE’s role and place in schools today.
The NCFRE does not claim to be an exhaustive or final description of the place, value and scope of RE in 2013, and it is not an official document. However, the breadth of the RE Council’s membership (over 60 national bodies listed inside the front cover), representing professional religious educators and national organisations of religion and belief, gives this document wide currency. The extensive consultation about draft versions of this framework means the document provides a widely supported platform for RE which can encourage a coherent range of RE syllabuses.
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The NCFRE follows the structure of the DfE’s National Curriculum Review, so that RE has documentation that parallels the subjects of the national curriculum. RE is described in terms of purpose, aims and programmes of study for each age group. It also gives clear guidance on RE in the early years and RE for students aged 14-19. As RE is a core subject of the curriculum the Review has largely followed the ways in which English, Mathematics and Science are described in the national curriculum, including examples and notes for key stages 1-3.
In describing progression in RE, the NCFRE illustrates how pupils will develop increasing understanding of wide areas of RE subject knowledge, and also how pupils can develop religious literacy, including the skills of:
• investigating religions and worldviews through varied experiences, approaches and disciplines;• reflecting on and expressing their own ideas and the ideas of others with increasing creativity and clarity;• becoming increasingly able to respond to religions and worldviews in an informed, rational and insightful way.
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Purpose of study
Religious education contributes dynamically to children and young people’s education in schools by provoking challenging questions about meaning and purpose in life, beliefs about God, ultimate reality, issues of right and wrong and what it means to be human. In RE they learn about and from religions and worldviews7 in local, national and global contexts, to discover, explore and consider different answers to these questions. They learn to weigh up the value of wisdom from different sources, to develop and express their insights in response, and to agree or disagree respectfully. Teaching therefore should equip pupils with systematic knowledge and understanding of a range of religions and worldviews, enabling them to develop their ideas, values and identities. It should develop in pupils an aptitude for dialogue so that they can participate positively in our society with its diverse religions and worldviews. Pupils should gain and deploy the skills needed to understand, interpret and evaluate texts, sources of wisdom and authority and other evidence. They learn to articulate clearly and coherently their personal beliefs, ideas, values and experiences while respecting the right of others to differ.
Aims
The curriculum for RE aims to ensure that all pupils:
A. Know about and understand a range of religions and worldviews, so that they can:• describe, explain and analyse beliefs and practices, recognising the diversity which exists within and between communities and amongst individuals;• identify, investigate and respond to questions posed, and responses offered by some of the sources of wisdom8 found in religions and worldviews;• appreciate and appraise the nature, significance and impact of different ways of life and ways of expressing meaning.
B. Express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religions and worldviews, so that they can:
• explain reasonably their ideas about how beliefs, practices and forms of expression influence individuals and communities;• express with increasing discernment their personal reflections and critical responses to questions and teachings about identity, diversity, meaning and value, including ethical issues; • appreciate and appraise varied dimensions of religion or a worldview9.
7The phrase ‘religions and worldviews’ is used in this document to refer to Christianity, other principal religions represented in Britain, smaller religious communities and non-religious worldviews such as Humanism. The phrase is meant to be inclusive, and its precise meaning depends on the context in which it occurs, eg in terms of belief, practice or identity.8 The sources of wisdom found in religions and worldviews will include the key texts, the teachings of key leaders, and key thinkers from different traditions and communities. Examples include the Bible, the Torah and the Bhagavad Gita; the Buddha, Jesus Christ, the Prophet Muhammad, Guru Nanak and humanist philosophers. Other sources of wisdom might come from texts, thinkers, lead-ers and scientists in the contemporary world as well as from experience and informed personal reflection and conscience.9 The RE programme of study usually refers to ‘religions and worldviews’ to describe the field of enquiry. Here, however, the aim is to consider religion and belief itself as a phenomenon which has both positive and negative features, and is open to many inter-pretations: in this aspect of the aims, pupils are to engage with the concept of religion and non-religious belief, not merely with individual examples, and similar critiques should apply to both.
Religious education
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C. Gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with religions and worldviews, so that they can:
• find out about and investigate key concepts and questions of belonging, meaning, purpose and truth, responding creatively;• enquire into what enables different individuals and communities to live together respectfully for the wellbeing of all;• articulate beliefs, values and commitments clearly in order to explain why they may be important in their own and other people’s lives. RE in the school curriculum
RE is a statutory subject of the school curriculum of maintained schools. Academies and free schools are contractually required through the terms of their funding to make provision for the teaching of RE to all pupils on the school roll. Alongside the subject’s contribution to pupils’ mental, cognitive and linguistic development, RE offers distinctive opportunities to promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. RE lessons should offer a structured and safe space during curriculum time for reflection, discussion, dialogue and debate. Lessons should also allow for timely and sensitive responses to be made to unforeseen events of a religious, moral or philosophical nature, whether local, national or global.
The breadth of RE
The law requires that local authority RE agreed syllabuses and RE syllabuses used in academies that are not designated with a religious character ‘must reflect the fact that the religious traditions in Great Britain are in the main Christian, while taking account of the teaching and practices of the other principal religions represented in Great Britain’. This means that from the ages of 5 to 19 pupils in schools10 learn about diverse religions and worldviews including Christianity and the other principal religions. Some schools with a religious character will prioritise learning about and from one religion, but all types of school need to recognise the diversity of the UK and the importance of learning about its religions and worldviews, including those with a significant local presence.
Attainment target*By the end of each key stage, students are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the relevant programme of study.
* Note: the wording of the attainment target for RE follows the same form of words found in the programmes of study of the national curriculum subjects
10 Except those withdrawn by their parents (or by themselves if aged over 18).
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RE in the Early Years Foundation Stage
Pupils should encounter religions and worldviews through special people, books, times, places and objects and by visiting places of worship. They should listen to and talk about stories. Pupils can be introduced to subject specific words and use all their senses to explore beliefs, practices and forms of expression. They ask questions and reflect on their own feelings and experiences. They use their imagination and curiosity to develop their appreciation of and wonder at the world in which they live. Religious education is a legal requirement for all pupils on the school roll, including all those in the reception year.
In line with the DfE’s 2013 EYFS Profile RE should, through planned, purposeful play and through a mix of adult-led and child-initiated activity, provide these opportunities for pupils.
Communication and language:• children listen with enjoyment to stories, songs and poems from different sources and
traditions and respond with relevant comments, questions or actions; • use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events;• answer ‘who’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences in response to stories,
experiences or events from different sources; • talk about how they and others show feelings; • develop their own narratives in relation to stories they hear from different traditions.
Personal, social and emotional development:
• children understand that they can expect others to treat their needs, views, cultures and beliefs with respect;
• work as part of a group, taking turns and sharing fairly, understanding that groups of people, including adults and children, need agreed values and codes of behaviour to work together harmoniously;
• talk about their own and others’ behaviour and its consequences, and know that some behaviour is unacceptable;
• think and talk about issues of right and wrong and why these questions matter;• respond to significant experiences showing a range of feelings when appropriate; • have a developing awareness of their own needs, views and feelings and are sensitive to
those of others;• have a developing respect for their own cultures and beliefs, and those of other people;• show sensitivity to others’ needs and feelings, and form positive relationships.
Subject content
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Understanding the world• children talk about similarities and differences between themselves and others, among
families, communities and traditions;• begin to know about their own cultures and beliefs and those of other people;• explore, observe and find out about places and objects that matter in different cultures
and beliefs.
Expressive arts and design• children use their imagination in art, music, dance, imaginative play, and role-play and
stories to represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings; • respond in a variety of ways to what they see, hear, smell, touch and taste.
Literacy• children are given access to a wide range of books, poems and other written materials to
ignite their interest.
Mathematics• children recognise, create and describe some patterns, sorting and ordering objects
simply.
These learning intentions for RE are developed from relevant areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (DfE 2013). RE syllabus makers will want to provide detailed examples.
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an
d t
he
stat
emen
t ab
ou
t b
read
th o
f lea
rnin
g o
n p
15
, go
od
pra
ctic
e sh
ou
ld e
nab
le p
up
ils t
o s
tud
y C
hri
stia
nit
y an
d a
t le
ast
on
e o
ther
exa
mp
le o
f a r
elig
ion
o
r w
orl
dvi
ew t
hro
ugh
key
sta
ge 1
in a
co
her
ent
way
.
16
Req
uir
emen
tsN
ote
: as
this
is n
ot
a st
atu
tory
do
cum
ent,
th
ese
are
no
t
lega
l req
uir
emen
ts a
s in
th
e n
atio
nal
cu
rric
ulu
m.
Exa
mp
les
and
no
tes
No
te: t
he
exam
ple
s fr
om
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s gi
ven
bel
ow
do
no
t co
nst
itu
te a
syl
lab
us
bu
t ill
ust
rate
wh
at is
mea
nt
in t
he
firs
t co
lum
n
B1
. Ask
an
d r
esp
on
d t
o q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
wh
at in
div
idu
als
and
co
mm
un
itie
s d
o, a
nd
why
, so
th
at p
up
ils c
an id
enti
fy
wh
at d
iffe
ren
ce b
elo
ngi
ng
to a
co
mm
un
ity
mig
ht
mak
e.
•
Pu
pils
fin
d o
ut
abo
ut
wh
at p
eop
le w
ith
dif
fere
nt
relig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
do
to
cel
ebra
te t
he
fru
itfu
lnes
s o
f
the
eart
h (e
.g. i
n H
arve
st fe
stiv
als,
an
d in
gen
ero
sity
to
th
ose
in n
eed
), re
spo
nd
ing
to q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
bei
ng
gen
ero
us
•
Pu
pils
dis
cuss
rea
son
s w
hy s
om
e p
eop
le g
o t
o m
osq
ues
, syn
ago
gues
or
chu
rch
es o
ften
, bu
t o
ther
peo
ple
nev
er
go t
o h
oly
bu
ildin
gs, a
nd
why
so
me
peo
ple
pra
y ev
ery
day
, bu
t o
ther
s n
ot
at a
ll
•
Lin
kin
g to
PSH
E, p
up
ils m
ake
lists
of t
he
dif
fere
nt
gro
up
s to
wh
ich
th
ey b
elo
ng
and
co
nsi
der
th
e w
ays
thes
e
con
trib
ute
to
hu
man
hap
pin
ess.
B2
. Ob
serv
e an
d r
eco
un
t d
iffe
ren
t w
ays
of e
xpre
ssin
g
iden
tity
an
d b
elo
ngi
ng,
res
po
nd
ing
sen
siti
vely
for
them
selv
es.
•
Pu
pils
lear
n a
bo
ut
the
dai
ly li
fe o
f a M
usl
im o
r Je
wis
h c
hild
(eg
fro
m a
tea
cher
’s u
se o
f per
son
a d
olls
), an
d
mak
e an
illu
stra
ted
list
of s
ign
s o
f bel
on
gin
g in
clu
din
g u
sin
g sp
ecia
l fo
od
, clo
thin
g, p
raye
r, sc
rip
ture
, fam
ily li
fe,
wo
rsh
ip a
nd
fest
ivit
ies.
Pu
pils
mak
e a
list
of t
he
way
s th
ey s
ho
w h
ow
th
ey b
elo
ng
as w
ell
•
Pu
pils
exp
ress
cre
ativ
ely
(e.g
. in
art
, po
etry
or
dra
ma)
th
eir
ow
n id
eas
abo
ut
the
qu
esti
on
s: W
ho
am
I? W
her
e
do
I b
elo
ng?
•
Pu
pils
wat
ch a
sh
ort
film
ab
ou
t th
e H
ind
u c
reat
ion
sto
ry a
nd
tal
k ab
ou
t d
iffe
ren
t st
ages
of t
he
cycl
e o
f lif
e.
B3
. No
tice
an
d r
esp
on
d s
ensi
tive
ly t
o s
om
e si
mila
riti
es
bet
wee
n d
iffe
ren
t re
ligio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s.
•
Pu
pils
use
a s
et o
f ph
oto
s o
r a
list
of r
elig
iou
s it
ems
they
hav
e en
cou
nte
red
in k
ey s
tage
1 R
E t
o s
ort
an
d o
rder
,
sayi
ng
wh
ich
item
s ar
e co
nn
ecte
d t
o a
par
ticu
lar
relig
ion
an
d w
hic
h a
re c
on
nec
ted
to
mo
re t
han
on
e re
ligio
n
•
Lin
kin
g to
En
glis
h, p
up
ils u
se k
ey w
ord
s (e
.g. h
oly
, sac
red
, scr
iptu
re, f
esti
val,
sym
bo
l, h
um
anis
t) t
o p
rese
nt
idea
s
or
wri
te a
bo
ut
two
dif
fere
nt
relig
ion
s o
r w
orl
dvi
ews
abo
ut
wh
ich
th
ey h
ave
lear
ned
.
Req
uir
emen
tsN
ote
: as
this
is n
ot
a st
atu
tory
do
cum
ent,
th
ese
are
no
t
lega
l req
uir
emen
ts a
s in
th
e n
atio
nal
cu
rric
ulu
m.
Exa
mp
les
and
no
tes
No
te: t
he
exam
ple
s fr
om
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s gi
ven
bel
ow
do
no
t co
nst
itu
te a
syl
lab
us
bu
t ill
ust
rate
wh
at is
mea
nt
in t
he
firs
t co
lum
n
C1
. Exp
lore
qu
esti
on
s ab
ou
t b
elo
ngi
ng,
mea
nin
g an
d
tru
th s
o t
hat
th
ey c
an e
xpre
ss t
hei
r o
wn
idea
s an
d
op
inio
ns
in r
esp
on
se u
sin
g w
ord
s, m
usi
c, a
rt o
r p
oet
ry.
•
Pu
pils
wo
rk in
gro
up
s to
use
art
, mu
sic
and
po
etry
to
res
po
nd
to
idea
s ab
ou
t G
od
fro
m d
iffe
ren
t re
ligio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s, e
xpre
ssin
g id
eas
of t
hei
r o
wn
an
d c
om
men
tin
g o
n s
om
e id
eas
of o
ther
s
•
Pu
pils
ask
an
d a
nsw
er a
ran
ge o
f ‘h
ow
’ an
d ‘w
hy’ q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
ho
w p
eop
le p
ract
ise
thei
r re
ligio
n
•
Lin
kin
g to
‘Ph
iloso
phy
for
Ch
ildre
n’, p
up
ils t
hin
k ab
ou
t an
d r
esp
on
d t
o ‘b
ig q
ues
tio
ns’
in a
cla
ssro
om
en
qu
iry
usi
ng
a st
ory
of A
dam
an
d E
ve o
r a
vid
eo c
lip o
f ch
ildre
n a
skin
g q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
Go
d a
s a
stim
ulu
s.
C2
. Fin
d o
ut
abo
ut
and
res
po
nd
wit
h id
eas
to e
xam
ple
s
of c
o-o
per
atio
n b
etw
een
peo
ple
wh
o a
re d
iffe
ren
t.
•
Pu
pils
dis
cuss
sto
ries
of c
o-o
per
atio
n fr
om
dif
fere
nt
trad
itio
ns
and
so
urc
es a
nd
mak
e a
‘Rec
ipe
for
livin
g
toge
ther
hap
pily
’ or
a ‘C
lass
ch
arte
r fo
r m
ore
kin
dn
ess
and
less
figh
tin
g’
•
Lin
kin
g to
En
glis
h a
nd
PSH
E p
up
ils c
ou
ld p
lay
som
e co
llab
ora
tive
gam
es, a
nd
tal
k ab
ou
t h
ow
th
e ga
mes
pu
t th
e
teac
hin
g o
f th
e ‘G
old
en R
ule
’ in
to a
ctio
n
•
Pu
pils
no
tice
an
d t
alk
abo
ut
the
fact
th
at p
eop
le c
om
e fr
om
dif
fere
nt
relig
ion
s, r
esp
on
din
g to
th
e q
ues
tio
ns-
‘Ho
w c
an w
e te
ll? H
ow
can
we
live
toge
ther
wh
en w
e ar
e al
l so
dif
fere
nt?
’
C3
. Fin
d o
ut
abo
ut
qu
esti
on
s o
f rig
ht
and
wro
ng
and
beg
in t
o e
xpre
ss t
hei
r id
eas
and
op
inio
ns
in r
esp
on
se.
•
Pu
pils
res
po
nd
to
a q
uie
t re
flec
tio
n o
r a
guid
ed v
isu
alis
atio
n b
y ch
oo
sin
g o
ne
valu
e th
ey t
hin
k th
e w
orl
d n
eed
s
mo
re o
f to
day
fro
m a
list
of v
alu
es, a
nd
by
illu
stra
tin
g th
eir
cho
ice
in d
iffe
ren
t m
edia
•
Lin
kin
g to
En
glis
h, p
up
ils c
ou
ld a
sk q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
goo
dn
ess,
an
d w
rite
sen
ten
ces
that
say
wh
at h
app
ens
wh
en
peo
ple
are
kin
d, t
han
kfu
l, fa
ir o
r ge
ner
ou
s, a
nd
wh
at h
app
ens
wh
en p
eop
le a
re u
nki
nd
, un
grat
efu
l, u
nfa
ir o
r
mea
n
•
Pu
pils
loo
k at
ho
w d
iffe
ren
t p
eop
le h
ave
exp
ress
ed t
hei
r id
eas
abo
ut
Go
d, a
nd
th
ink
and
tal
k ab
ou
t th
eir
ow
n
idea
s ab
ou
t G
od
.
17
Key
sta
ge 2
Pu
pils
sh
ou
ld e
xten
d t
hei
r kn
ow
led
ge a
nd
un
der
stan
din
g o
f rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s12, r
eco
gnis
ing
thei
r lo
cal,
nat
ion
al a
nd
glo
bal
co
nte
xts.
T
hey
sh
ou
ld b
e in
tro
du
ced
to
an
ext
end
ed r
ange
of s
ou
rces
an
d s
ub
ject
sp
ecifi
c vo
cab
ula
ry. T
hey
sh
ou
ld b
e en
cou
rage
d t
o b
e cu
rio
us
and
to
ask
in
crea
sin
gly
chal
len
gin
g q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
relig
ion
, bel
ief,
valu
es a
nd
hu
man
life
. Pu
pils
sh
ou
ld le
arn
to
exp
ress
th
eir
ow
n id
eas
in r
esp
on
se t
o t
he
mat
eria
l th
ey e
nga
ge w
ith
, id
enti
fyin
g re
leva
nt
info
rmat
ion
, sel
ecti
ng
exam
ple
s an
d g
ivin
g re
aso
ns
to s
up
po
rt t
hei
r id
eas
and
vie
ws.
Mo
re s
pec
ifica
lly p
up
ils s
ho
uld
be
tau
ght
to:
12B
read
th: i
n li
ne
wit
h t
he
law
an
d t
he
stat
emen
t ab
ou
t b
read
th o
f lea
rnin
g o
n p
15
ab
ove,
go
od
pra
ctic
e sh
ou
ld e
nab
le p
up
ils t
o
stu
dy
Ch
rist
ian
ity
and
at
leas
t tw
o o
ther
exa
mp
les
of a
rel
igio
n o
r w
orl
dvi
ew t
hro
ugh
key
sta
ge 2
in a
co
her
ent
and
pro
gres
ssiv
e w
ay.
Req
uir
emen
tsN
ote
: as
this
is n
ot
a st
atu
tory
do
cum
ent,
th
ese
are
no
t
lega
l req
uir
emen
ts a
s in
th
e n
atio
nal
cu
rric
ulu
m.
Exa
mp
les
and
no
tes
No
te: t
he
exam
ple
s fr
om
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s gi
ven
bel
ow
do
no
t co
nst
itu
te a
syl
lab
us
bu
t ill
ust
rate
wh
at is
mea
nt
in t
he
firs
t co
lum
n
A1
. Des
crib
e an
d m
ake
con
nec
tio
ns
bet
wee
n d
iffe
ren
t
feat
ure
s o
f th
e re
ligio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s th
ey s
tud
y,
dis
cove
rin
g m
ore
ab
ou
t ce
leb
rati
on
s, w
ors
hip
,
pilg
rim
ages
an
d t
he
ritu
als
wh
ich
mar
k im
po
rtan
t
po
ints
in li
fe, i
n o
rder
to
refl
ect
on
th
eir
sign
ifica
nce
.
•
Pu
pils
mak
e so
me
con
nec
tio
ns
bet
wee
n H
ajj f
or
Mu
slim
s an
d p
ilgri
mag
e to
Lo
urd
es, I
on
a o
r ‘t
he
Ho
ly L
and
’ fo
r
Ch
rist
ian
s, d
escr
ibin
g th
e m
oti
ves
peo
ple
hav
e fo
r m
akin
g sp
irit
ual
jou
rney
s
•
Pu
pils
des
crib
e sp
irit
ual
way
s o
f cel
ebra
tin
g d
iffe
ren
t fe
stiv
als,
an
d r
eflec
t o
n t
he
reas
on
s w
hy s
om
e p
eop
le
valu
e su
ch c
eleb
rati
on
s ve
ry h
igh
ly, b
ut
oth
ers
no
t at
all
•
Pu
pils
co
mp
are
ho
w C
hri
stia
ns,
Mu
slim
s, H
ind
us
or
hu
man
ists
cel
ebra
te a
mar
riag
e an
d e
xpre
ss a
nd
arg
ue
for
idea
s o
f th
eir
ow
n a
bo
ut
par
tner
ship
, in
dis
cuss
ion
s o
r in
wri
tin
g.
A2
. Des
crib
e an
d u
nd
erst
and
lin
ks b
etw
een
sto
ries
and
oth
er a
spec
ts o
f th
e co
mm
un
itie
s th
ey a
re
inve
stig
atin
g, r
esp
on
din
g th
ou
ghtf
ully
to
a r
ange
of
sou
rces
of w
isd
om
an
d t
o b
elie
fs a
nd
tea
chin
gs t
hat
aris
e fr
om
th
em in
dif
fere
nt
com
mu
nit
ies.
•
Lin
kin
g to
En
glis
h, p
up
ils c
on
sid
er h
ow
so
me
text
s fr
om
th
e To
rah
(e.g
. th
e Sh
ema)
, th
e B
ible
(e.g
. 1 C
ori
nth
ian
s
13
) an
d t
he
Qu
r’an
(e.g
. Th
e 1
st S
ura
h, t
he
Op
enin
g) a
re s
een
as
sou
rces
of w
isd
om
in d
iffe
ren
t tr
adit
ion
s. T
hey
resp
on
d t
o t
he
idea
s fo
un
d in
th
e te
xts
wit
h id
eas
of t
hei
r o
wn
•
Pu
pils
inve
stig
ate
asp
ects
of c
om
mu
nit
y lif
e su
ch a
s w
eekl
y w
ors
hip
, ch
arit
able
giv
ing
or
bel
iefs
ab
ou
t p
raye
r,
sho
win
g th
eir
un
der
stan
din
g an
d e
xpre
ssin
g id
eas
of t
hei
r o
wn
•
Pu
pils
co
mp
are
the
text
s in
th
e C
hri
stia
n g
osp
els
that
tel
l th
e st
ori
es o
f sh
eph
erd
s an
d w
ise
men
at
Jesu
s’ b
irth
,
exp
lori
ng
ho
w t
hey
are
rem
emb
ered
an
d c
eleb
rate
d in
a r
ange
of C
hri
stm
as fe
stiv
itie
s.
A3
. Exp
lore
an
d d
escr
ibe
a ra
nge
of b
elie
fs, s
ymb
ols
and
act
ion
s so
th
at t
hey
can
un
der
stan
d d
iffe
ren
t w
ays
of l
ife
and
way
s o
f exp
ress
ing
mea
nin
g.
•
Pu
pils
pu
rsu
e an
en
qu
iry
into
bel
iefs
ab
ou
t w
ors
hip
, rel
atin
g th
e m
ean
ings
of s
ymb
ols
an
d a
ctio
ns
use
d in
wo
rsh
ip s
uch
as
bo
win
g d
ow
n, m
akin
g m
usi
c to
geth
er, s
har
ing
foo
d o
r sp
eaki
ng
to G
od
(e.g
. in
pra
yer)
to
eve
nts
and
tea
chin
gs fr
om
a r
elig
ion
th
ey s
tud
y
•
Pu
pils
co
nsi
der
ho
w t
he
mea
nin
gs o
f a p
arab
le o
f Jes
us
are
exp
ress
ed in
po
etry
, vid
eo, s
tain
ed g
lass
an
d d
ram
a.
•
Pu
pils
des
crib
e th
e im
pac
t o
f Hin
du
tea
chin
g ab
ou
t h
arm
less
nes
s (a
him
sa) o
n q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
wh
at p
eop
le e
at
and
ho
w p
eop
le t
reat
an
imal
s. T
hey
exp
ress
th
eir
ow
n id
eas.
18
Req
uir
emen
tsN
ote
: as
this
is n
ot
a st
atu
tory
do
cum
ent,
th
ese
are
no
t
lega
l req
uir
emen
ts a
s in
th
e n
atio
nal
cu
rric
ulu
m.
Exa
mp
les
and
no
tes
No
te: t
he
exam
ple
s fr
om
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s gi
ven
bel
ow
do
no
t co
nst
itu
te a
syl
lab
us
bu
t ill
ust
rate
wh
at is
mea
nt
in t
he
firs
t co
lum
n
B1
. Ob
serv
e an
d u
nd
erst
and
var
ied
exa
mp
les
of
relig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
so t
hat
th
ey c
an e
xpla
in, w
ith
reas
on
s, t
hei
r m
ean
ings
an
d s
ign
ifica
nce
to
ind
ivid
ual
s
and
co
mm
un
itie
s.
•
Lin
kin
g to
His
tory
an
d D
esig
n T
ech
no
logy
pu
pils
co
nsi
der
ho
w t
he
arch
itec
ture
of c
hu
rch
es, m
osq
ues
, man
dir
s
or
gurd
war
as e
xpre
sses
a c
om
mu
nit
y’s
way
of l
ife,
val
ues
an
d b
elie
fs
•
Pu
pils
dev
elo
p t
hei
r u
nd
erst
and
ing
of b
elie
fs a
bo
ut
life
afte
r d
eath
in t
wo
rel
igio
ns
and
hu
man
ism
thr
ough
seek
ing
answ
ers
to th
eir
own
ques
tion
s an
d ar
ticu
lati
ng r
easo
ns fo
r th
eir
own
idea
s an
d re
spon
ses
•
Pu
pils
use
th
eir
det
aile
d u
nd
erst
and
ing
of r
elig
iou
s p
ract
ice
such
as
the
Fiv
e P
illar
s o
f Isl
am a
nd
wo
rsh
ip o
f a
dei
ty in
a H
ind
u fa
mily
an
d a
man
dir
to
des
crib
e th
e si
gnifi
can
ce o
f bei
ng
par
t o
f a r
elig
ion
.
B2
. Un
der
stan
d t
he
chal
len
ges
of c
om
mit
men
t to
a
com
mu
nit
y o
f fai
th o
r b
elie
f, su
gges
tin
g w
hy b
elo
ngi
ng
to a
co
mm
un
ity
may
be
valu
able
, bo
th in
th
e d
iver
se
com
mu
nit
ies
bei
ng
stu
die
d a
nd
in t
hei
r o
wn
live
s.
•
Pu
pils
exp
lore
th
e liv
es o
f key
lead
ers
fro
m B
ud
dh
ist
and
Ch
rist
ian
co
nte
mp
ora
ry li
fe, d
escr
ibin
g th
e ch
alle
nge
s
they
hav
e fa
ced
an
d t
he
com
mit
men
ts b
y w
hic
h t
hey
hav
e liv
ed
•
Pu
pils
fin
d o
ut
abo
ut
ho
w c
eleb
rati
ng
Div
ali b
rin
gs t
he
Hin
du
or
Sikh
co
mm
un
ity
toge
ther
, an
d e
xpre
sses
com
mit
men
t to
val
ues
of i
nte
rdep
end
ence
an
d g
ener
osi
ty
•
Lin
kin
g to
th
e ex
pre
ssiv
e ar
ts, p
up
ils d
evel
op
th
eir
ow
n im
agin
ativ
e an
d c
reat
ive
way
s o
f exp
ress
ing
som
e o
f
thei
r o
wn
co
mm
itm
ents
su
ch a
s w
ork
ing
har
d a
t sp
ort
or
mu
sic,
car
ing
for
anim
als
and
th
e en
viro
nm
ent,
lovi
ng
thei
r fa
mily
or
serv
ing
Go
d.
B3
. Ob
serv
e an
d c
on
sid
er d
iffe
ren
t d
imen
sio
ns
of r
elig
ion
, so
th
at t
hey
can
exp
lore
an
d s
ho
w
un
der
stan
din
g o
f sim
ilari
ties
an
d d
iffe
ren
ces
wit
hin
and
bet
wee
n d
iffe
ren
t re
ligio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s.
•
Pu
pils
use
th
eir
thin
kin
g ab
ou
t st
ori
es o
f Mo
ses
and
Jes
us
to e
xplo
re h
ow
Jew
s an
d C
hri
stia
ns
tod
ay c
eleb
rate
key
even
ts fr
om
th
eir
his
tory
(e.g
. in
Pas
sove
r an
d L
ent)
•
Pu
pils
list
an
d d
escr
ibe
sim
ilari
ties
an
d d
iffe
ren
ces
in t
he
way
s d
iffe
ren
t tr
adit
ion
s ex
pre
ss w
hat
‘bel
on
gin
g’
mea
ns
to t
hem
•
Lin
kin
g to
En
glis
h, p
up
ils fi
nd
ou
t ab
ou
t d
iffe
ren
t fo
rms
of p
raye
r an
d m
edit
atio
n in
dif
fere
nt
relig
ion
s an
d
wo
rld
view
s, a
nd
wri
te s
om
e p
raye
rs o
r m
edit
atio
ns
suit
ed t
o p
arti
cula
r o
ccas
ion
s an
d t
rad
itio
ns.
Th
is is
on
e
po
int,
am
on
g m
any,
wh
ere
RE
can
pro
vid
e ke
y o
pp
ort
un
itie
s fo
r p
up
ils’ s
pir
itu
al d
evel
op
men
t.
No
te: d
iffe
ren
t d
imen
sio
ns
of r
elig
ion
or
wo
rld
view
incl
ud
e, fo
r ex
amp
le, n
arra
tive
s, b
elie
fs, e
thic
s, a
nd
so
cial
life
19
Req
uir
emen
tsN
ote
: as
this
is n
ot
a st
atu
tory
do
cum
ent,
thes
e ar
e n
ot
lega
l req
uir
emen
ts a
s in
the
nat
ion
al c
urr
icu
lum
.
Exa
mp
les
and
no
tes
No
te: t
he
exam
ple
s fr
om
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s gi
ven
bel
ow
do
no
t co
nst
itu
te a
syl
lab
us
bu
t ill
ust
rate
wh
at is
mea
nt
in t
he
firs
t
colu
mn
C1
. Dis
cuss
an
d p
rese
nt
tho
ugh
tfu
lly
thei
r o
wn
an
d o
ther
s’ v
iew
s o
n
chal
len
gin
g q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
bel
on
gin
g,
mea
nin
g, p
urp
ose
an
d t
ruth
, ap
ply
ing
idea
s o
f th
eir
ow
n in
dif
fere
nt
form
s
incl
ud
ing
(e.g
.) re
aso
nin
g, m
usi
c, a
rt a
nd
po
etry
.
•
Pu
pils
dis
cuss
dif
fere
nt
per
spec
tive
s o
n q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
the
beg
inn
ings
of l
ife
on
Ear
th, s
o t
hat
th
ey c
an d
escr
ibe
dif
fere
nt
way
s sc
ien
ce a
nd
rel
igio
ns
trea
t q
ues
tio
ns
of o
rigi
ns
•
Lin
kin
g w
ith
th
e ex
pre
ssiv
e ar
ts c
urr
icu
lum
, pu
pils
cre
ate
wo
rks
of a
rt o
r m
usi
c w
hic
h e
xpre
ss t
hei
r u
nd
erst
and
ing
of w
hat
it
mea
ns
to b
elo
ng
to a
rel
igio
n o
r w
orl
dvi
ew
•
Pu
pils
dis
cuss
an
d d
ebat
e re
aso
ns
why
dif
fere
nt
peo
ple
hav
e d
iffe
ren
t id
eas
abo
ut
the
div
ine
e.g.
wh
eth
er G
od
is r
eal a
nd
wh
at
Go
d is
like
.
No
te: p
up
ils a
re n
ot
req
uir
ed t
o e
xpre
ss p
erso
nal
bel
iefs
in a
ny c
oer
cive
way
in R
E; g
oo
d R
E e
nco
ura
ges
an o
pen
hea
rted
an
d
bro
ad m
ind
ed a
pp
roac
h t
o d
iffe
ren
t b
elie
fs.
C2
. Co
nsi
der
an
d a
pp
ly id
eas
abo
ut
way
s in
wh
ich
div
erse
co
mm
un
itie
s ca
n
live
toge
ther
for
the
wel
l-b
ein
g o
f all,
resp
on
din
g th
ou
ghtf
ully
to
idea
s ab
ou
t
com
mu
nit
y, v
alu
es a
nd
res
pec
t.
•
Pu
pils
dis
cove
r an
d e
xplo
re w
hat
Jew
ish
peo
ple
, hu
man
ists
an
d C
hri
stia
ns
teac
h a
bo
ut
ho
w p
eop
le c
an li
ve t
oge
ther
for
the
wel
l-b
ein
g o
f all
•
Pu
pils
dis
cuss
an
d a
pp
ly id
eas
fro
m d
iffe
ren
t re
ligio
us
cod
es fo
r liv
ing
(e.g
. Co
mm
and
men
ts, P
rece
pts
or
Ru
les)
, to
co
mp
ile a
char
ter
of t
hei
r o
wn
mo
ral v
alu
es, a
pp
lyin
g th
eir
idea
s to
issu
es o
f res
pec
t fo
r al
l
•
Lin
kin
g to
Mat
hem
atic
s an
d G
eogr
aphy
, pu
pils
use
loca
l an
d n
atio
nal
cen
sus
stat
isti
cs t
o d
evel
op
acc
ura
te u
nd
erst
and
ing
of
the
relig
iou
s p
lura
lity
of t
hei
r lo
calit
y an
d o
f Bri
tain
to
day
.
No
te: T
his
wo
rk o
ffer
s va
luab
le o
pp
ort
un
itie
s fo
r en
gage
men
t w
ith
rel
igio
ns
wit
h a
sig
nifi
can
t lo
cal p
rese
nce
: pu
pils
may
lear
n a
bo
ut
the
con
trib
uti
on
s o
f, fo
r ex
amp
le, J
ain
s, Z
oro
astr
ian
s o
r m
emb
ers
of t
he
Bah
á’í f
aith
to
inte
r fa
ith
wo
rk. T
hes
e
com
mu
nit
ies
can
als
o b
e st
ud
ied
els
ewh
ere
in t
he
RE
cu
rric
ulu
m.
C3
. Dis
cuss
an
d a
pp
ly t
hei
r o
wn
an
d
oth
ers’
idea
s ab
ou
t et
hic
al q
ues
tio
ns,
incl
ud
ing
idea
s ab
ou
t w
hat
is r
igh
t
and
wro
ng
and
wh
at is
just
an
d fa
ir,
and
exp
ress
th
eir
ow
n id
eas
clea
rly
in
resp
on
se.
•
Pu
pils
ap
ply
th
eir
ow
n id
eas
abo
ut
just
ice
and
fair
nes
s to
th
e w
ork
of t
hre
e d
evel
op
men
t ch
arit
ies
such
as
Ch
rist
ian
Aid
,
Isla
mic
Rel
ief a
nd
Oxf
am
•
Pu
pils
wri
te p
ersu
asiv
ely
abo
ut
the
reas
on
s w
hy p
eop
le w
ho
hav
e a
par
ticu
lar
relig
iou
s b
ackg
rou
nd
or
no
n-r
elig
iou
s
wo
rld
view
try
to
hel
p p
eop
le w
ho
are
vu
lner
able
(eg
vict
ims
of n
atu
ral d
isas
ters
or
pre
jud
ice,
peo
ple
wh
o li
ve w
ith
dis
abili
ties
or
peo
ple
aff
ecte
d b
y w
ar)
•
Lin
kin
g to
Cit
izen
ship
Ed
uca
tio
n, p
up
ils c
on
sid
er t
he
Ten
Co
mm
and
men
ts (J
ewis
h) a
nd
th
e F
ive
Pre
cep
ts (B
ud
dh
ist)
,
exp
ress
ing
thei
r id
eas
abo
ut
righ
t an
d w
ron
g in
th
e lig
ht
of t
hei
r le
arn
ing.
No
te: t
his
is o
ne
po
int,
am
on
g m
any,
wh
ere
RE
can
pro
vid
e ke
y o
pp
ort
un
itie
s fo
r p
up
ils’ m
ora
l dev
elo
pm
ent.
20
13B
read
th: i
n li
ne
wit
h t
he
law
an
d t
he
stat
emen
t ab
ou
t b
read
th o
f lea
rnin
g o
n p
15
ab
ove,
go
od
pra
ctic
e sh
ou
ld e
nab
le p
up
ils t
o s
tud
y C
hri
stia
nit
y an
d a
t le
ast
two
oth
er e
xam
ple
s o
f a r
elig
ion
or
wo
rld
view
th
rou
gh k
ey s
tage
3 in
a c
oh
eren
t an
d p
rogr
essi
ve w
ay.
Key
sta
ge 3
Stu
den
ts s
ho
uld
ext
end
an
d d
eep
en t
hei
r kn
ow
led
ge a
nd
un
der
stan
din
g o
f a r
ange
of r
elig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews1
3, r
eco
gnis
ing
thei
r lo
cal,
nat
ion
al a
nd
glo
bal
co
nte
xt.
Bu
ildin
g o
n t
hei
r p
rio
r le
arn
ing,
th
ey le
arn
to
ap
pre
ciat
e re
ligio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s in
sys
tem
atic
way
s. T
hey
sh
ou
ld d
raw
on
a w
ide
ran
ge o
f su
bje
ct s
pec
ific
lan
guag
e
con
fid
entl
y an
d fl
exib
ly, l
earn
ing
to u
se t
he
con
cep
ts o
f rel
igio
us
stu
dy
to d
escr
ibe
the
nat
ure
of r
elig
ion
. Th
ey s
ho
uld
un
der
stan
d h
ow
bel
iefs
infl
uen
ce t
he
valu
es a
nd
live
s
of i
nd
ivid
ual
s an
d g
rou
ps,
an
d h
ow
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s h
ave
an im
pac
t o
n w
ider
cu
rren
t af
fair
s. T
hey
sh
ou
ld b
e ab
le t
o a
pp
rais
e th
e p
ract
ices
an
d b
elie
fs t
hey
stu
dy
wit
h in
crea
sin
g d
isce
rnm
ent
bas
ed o
n a
nal
ysis
, in
terp
reta
tio
n a
nd
eva
luat
ion
, dev
elo
pin
g th
eir
cap
acit
y to
art
icu
late
wel
l-re
aso
ned
po
siti
on
s.
Mo
re s
pec
ifica
lly s
tud
ents
sh
ou
ld b
e ta
ugh
t to
:
21
Req
uir
emen
tsN
ote
: as
this
is n
ot
a st
atu
tory
do
cum
ent,
th
ese
are
no
t le
gal
req
uir
emen
ts a
s in
th
e n
atio
nal
curr
icu
lum
.
Exa
mp
les
and
no
tes
No
te: t
he
exam
ple
s fr
om
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s gi
ven
bel
ow
do
no
t co
nst
itu
te a
syl
lab
us
bu
t ill
ust
rate
wh
at is
mea
nt
in t
he
firs
t
colu
mn
A1
. Exp
lain
an
d in
terp
ret
way
s th
at
the
his
tory
an
d c
ult
ure
of r
elig
ion
s an
d
wo
rld
view
s in
flu
ence
ind
ivid
ual
s an
d
com
mu
nit
ies,
incl
ud
ing
a w
ide
ran
ge
of b
elie
fs a
nd
pra
ctic
es, i
n o
rder
to
app
rais
e re
aso
ns
why
so
me
peo
ple
sup
po
rt a
nd
oth
ers
qu
esti
on
th
ese
infl
uen
ces.
•
Lin
kin
g to
His
tory
, stu
den
ts p
lan
an
d r
epo
rt o
n a
n in
vest
igat
ion
into
th
e im
pac
t o
f tw
o k
ey le
ader
s, t
hin
kers
or
fou
nd
ers
of
relig
ion
s o
r w
orl
dvi
ews
on
th
eir
com
mu
nit
ies
or
on
ind
ivid
ual
s to
day
•
Stu
den
ts e
xam
ine
ho
w s
pir
itu
al e
xper
ien
ces
(su
ch a
s se
nsi
ng
the
pre
sen
ce o
f Go
d, o
r th
e ex
per
ien
ce o
f an
swer
ed p
raye
r) h
ave
an
imp
act
on
so
me
mem
ber
s o
f dif
fere
nt
com
mu
nit
ies.
Th
ey d
evel
op
rea
son
ed a
rgu
men
ts t
o s
up
po
rt t
hei
r id
eas
abo
ut
thes
e ki
nd
s o
f
clai
ms
or
even
ts
•
Lin
kin
g to
Geo
grap
hy, s
tud
ents
inve
stig
ate
the
dem
ogr
aph
ics
of C
hri
stia
nit
y, J
ud
aism
or
Sikh
ism
or
‘No
Rel
igio
us
bel
ief’
in t
hei
r
loca
l are
a an
d w
ider
reg
ion
.
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te: t
his
is a
n a
spec
t o
f RE
th
at p
rovi
des
man
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pp
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un
itie
s fo
r st
ud
ents
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ult
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l dev
elo
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ent.
A2
. Exp
lain
an
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terp
ret
a ra
nge
of b
elie
fs, t
each
ings
an
d s
ou
rces
of w
isd
om
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uth
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d w
orl
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ing
the
wo
rld
.
•
Stu
den
ts d
evel
op
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mo
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nin
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ills
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tud
yin
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um
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m a
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ays
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ve. T
hey
co
mp
are
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eas
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h C
hri
stia
n s
ou
rces
of a
uth
ori
ty a
nd
wis
do
m, r
esp
on
din
g sy
stem
atic
ally
•
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den
ts s
elec
t an
d in
terp
ret
text
s fr
om
th
e Q
ur’
an a
nd
Had
ith
to
exp
lain
an
d e
xem
plif
y th
eir
un
der
stan
din
g o
f Mu
slim
bel
iefs
an
d
way
s o
f see
ing
the
wo
rld
•
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den
ts c
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sid
er h
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red
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tin
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uch
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the
Tora
h o
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hag
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Git
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ther
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urc
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do
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rovi
de
eth
ical
guid
ance
an
d s
pir
itu
al n
urt
ure
to
mem
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s o
f dif
fere
nt
com
mu
nit
ies
•
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den
ts c
on
sid
er w
hy s
o m
any
sou
rces
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isd
om
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uth
ori
ty in
rel
igio
ns
and
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rld
view
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few
are
wo
men
.
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pp
rais
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me
sou
rces
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emal
e w
isd
om
, fro
m w
ith
in o
r b
eyo
nd
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s
•
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den
ts c
on
sid
er t
he
imp
ort
ance
of e
xper
ien
ce a
s a
sou
rce
of w
isd
om
an
d a
uth
ori
ty in
clu
din
g re
ligio
us
exp
erie
nce
an
d e
very
day
hu
man
exp
erie
nce
.
No
te: T
he
focu
s o
n in
terp
reta
tio
n o
f rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s re
qu
ires
lear
ner
s to
be
acti
ve in
en
gagi
ng
wit
h t
exts
an
d is
sues
an
d
resp
on
din
g w
ith
rea
son
ed id
eas
of t
hei
r o
wn
.
A3
. Exp
lain
ho
w a
nd
why
ind
ivid
ual
s
and
co
mm
un
itie
s ex
pre
ss t
he
mea
nin
gs o
f th
eir
bel
iefs
an
d v
alu
es
in m
any
dif
fere
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form
s an
d w
ays
of l
ivin
g, e
nq
uir
ing
into
th
e va
riet
y,
dif
fere
nce
s an
d r
elat
ion
ship
s th
at
exis
t w
ith
in a
nd
bet
wee
n t
hem
.
•
Stu
den
ts in
vest
igat
e th
e lif
e, t
each
ing
and
exa
mp
le o
f Jes
us,
res
po
nd
ing
to C
hri
stia
n t
heo
logy
an
d o
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vie
ws
of h
is in
flu
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wit
h t
hei
r o
wn
inte
rpre
tati
on
s an
d in
sigh
ts
•
Stu
den
ts p
lan
an
inve
stig
atio
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to e
xam
ple
s o
f dai
ly p
ract
ice
of B
ud
dh
ists
, Ch
rist
ian
s, H
ind
us,
Jew
ish
peo
ple
, Mu
slim
s an
d /
or
Sikh
s in
Bri
tain
, exa
min
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in p
arti
cula
r so
me
sim
ilari
ties
an
d d
iffe
ren
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in s
pir
itu
al p
ract
ice,
eth
ics,
bel
iefs
an
d c
om
mu
nit
y lif
e
•
Stu
den
ts e
xplo
re d
iffe
ren
t w
ays
of e
xpre
ssin
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elie
fs a
nd
val
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rch
itec
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, mu
sic,
med
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nd
th
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ts, b
uild
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thei
r
un
der
stan
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f div
ersi
ty w
ith
in t
he
relig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
they
stu
dy.
No
te: T
he
focu
s in
th
is a
im o
n e
xpre
ssio
n a
nd
co
mm
un
icat
ion
co
nn
ects
th
e w
ays
peo
ple
fro
m d
iffe
ren
t re
ligio
us
or
no
n-r
elig
iou
s
back
grou
nds
expr
ess
thei
r id
eas
to th
e w
ays
lear
ners
them
selv
es e
xpre
ss th
eir
own
idea
s. B
oth
are
equa
lly im
port
ant i
n go
od R
E
lear
ning
.
22
Req
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emen
tsN
ote
: as
this
is n
ot
a st
atu
tory
do
cum
ent,
th
ese
are
no
t le
gal
req
uir
emen
ts a
s in
th
e n
atio
nal
curr
icu
lum
.
Exa
mp
les
and
no
tes
No
te: t
he
exam
ple
s fr
om
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s gi
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bel
ow
do
no
t co
nst
itu
te a
syl
lab
us
bu
t ill
ust
rate
wh
at is
mea
nt
in t
he
firs
t
colu
mn
A1
. Exp
lain
an
d in
terp
ret
way
s th
at
the
his
tory
an
d c
ult
ure
of r
elig
ion
s an
d
wo
rld
view
s in
flu
ence
ind
ivid
ual
s an
d
com
mu
nit
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incl
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a w
ide
ran
ge
of b
elie
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nd
pra
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n o
rder
to
app
rais
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aso
ns
why
so
me
peo
ple
sup
po
rt a
nd
oth
ers
qu
esti
on
th
ese
infl
uen
ces.
•
Lin
kin
g to
His
tory
, stu
den
ts p
lan
an
d r
epo
rt o
n a
n in
vest
igat
ion
into
th
e im
pac
t o
f tw
o k
ey le
ader
s, t
hin
kers
or
fou
nd
ers
of
relig
ion
s o
r w
orl
dvi
ews
on
th
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com
mu
nit
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or
on
ind
ivid
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s to
day
•
Stu
den
ts e
xam
ine
ho
w s
pir
itu
al e
xper
ien
ces
(su
ch a
s se
nsi
ng
the
pre
sen
ce o
f Go
d, o
r th
e ex
per
ien
ce o
f an
swer
ed p
raye
r) h
ave
an
imp
act
on
so
me
mem
ber
s o
f dif
fere
nt
com
mu
nit
ies.
Th
ey d
evel
op
rea
son
ed a
rgu
men
ts t
o s
up
po
rt t
hei
r id
eas
abo
ut
thes
e ki
nd
s o
f
clai
ms
or
even
ts
•
Lin
kin
g to
Geo
grap
hy, s
tud
ents
inve
stig
ate
the
dem
ogr
aph
ics
of C
hri
stia
nit
y, J
ud
aism
or
Sikh
ism
or
‘No
Rel
igio
us
bel
ief’
in t
hei
r
loca
l are
a an
d w
ider
reg
ion
.
No
te: t
his
is a
n a
spec
t o
f RE
th
at p
rovi
des
man
y o
pp
ort
un
itie
s fo
r st
ud
ents
’ so
cial
an
d c
ult
ura
l dev
elo
pm
ent.
A2
. Exp
lain
an
d in
terp
ret
a ra
nge
of b
elie
fs, t
each
ings
an
d s
ou
rces
of w
isd
om
an
d a
uth
ori
ty in
clu
din
g
exp
erie
nce
in o
rder
to
un
der
stan
d
relig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
as c
oh
eren
t
syst
ems
or
way
s o
f see
ing
the
wo
rld
.
•
Stu
den
ts d
evel
op
th
eir
mo
ral r
easo
nin
g sk
ills
by s
tud
yin
g m
ora
l id
eas
fro
m H
um
anis
m a
bo
ut
goo
d w
ays
to li
ve. T
hey
co
mp
are
thes
e id
eas
wit
h C
hri
stia
n s
ou
rces
of a
uth
ori
ty a
nd
wis
do
m, r
esp
on
din
g sy
stem
atic
ally
•
Stu
den
ts s
elec
t an
d in
terp
ret
text
s fr
om
th
e Q
ur’
an a
nd
Had
ith
to
exp
lain
an
d e
xem
plif
y th
eir
un
der
stan
din
g o
f Mu
slim
bel
iefs
an
d
way
s o
f see
ing
the
wo
rld
•
Stu
den
ts c
on
sid
er h
ow
sac
red
wri
tin
gs s
uch
as
the
Tora
h o
r th
e B
hag
avad
Git
a, o
r o
ther
so
urc
es o
f wis
do
m, p
rovi
de
eth
ical
guid
ance
an
d s
pir
itu
al n
urt
ure
to
mem
ber
s o
f dif
fere
nt
com
mu
nit
ies
•
Stu
den
ts c
on
sid
er w
hy s
o m
any
sou
rces
of w
isd
om
an
d a
uth
ori
ty in
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s ar
e m
en, a
nd
so
few
are
wo
men
.
Th
ey a
pp
rais
e so
me
sou
rces
of f
emal
e w
isd
om
, fro
m w
ith
in o
r b
eyo
nd
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s
•
Stu
den
ts c
on
sid
er t
he
imp
ort
ance
of e
xper
ien
ce a
s a
sou
rce
of w
isd
om
an
d a
uth
ori
ty in
clu
din
g re
ligio
us
exp
erie
nce
an
d e
very
day
hu
man
exp
erie
nce
.
No
te: T
he
focu
s o
n in
terp
reta
tio
n o
f rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s re
qu
ires
lear
ner
s to
be
acti
ve in
en
gagi
ng
wit
h t
exts
an
d is
sues
an
d
resp
on
din
g w
ith
rea
son
ed id
eas
of t
hei
r o
wn
.
A3
. Exp
lain
ho
w a
nd
why
ind
ivid
ual
s
and
co
mm
un
itie
s ex
pre
ss t
he
mea
nin
gs o
f th
eir
bel
iefs
an
d v
alu
es
in m
any
dif
fere
nt
form
s an
d w
ays
of l
ivin
g, e
nq
uir
ing
into
th
e va
riet
y,
dif
fere
nce
s an
d r
elat
ion
ship
s th
at
exis
t w
ith
in a
nd
bet
wee
n t
hem
.
•
Stu
den
ts in
vest
igat
e th
e lif
e, t
each
ing
and
exa
mp
le o
f Jes
us,
res
po
nd
ing
to C
hri
stia
n t
heo
logy
an
d o
ther
vie
ws
of h
is in
flu
ence
wit
h t
hei
r o
wn
inte
rpre
tati
on
s an
d in
sigh
ts
•
Stu
den
ts p
lan
an
inve
stig
atio
n in
to e
xam
ple
s o
f dai
ly p
ract
ice
of B
ud
dh
ists
, Ch
rist
ian
s, H
ind
us,
Jew
ish
peo
ple
, Mu
slim
s an
d /
or
Sikh
s in
Bri
tain
, exa
min
ing
in p
arti
cula
r so
me
sim
ilari
ties
an
d d
iffe
ren
ces
in s
pir
itu
al p
ract
ice,
eth
ics,
bel
iefs
an
d c
om
mu
nit
y lif
e
•
Stu
den
ts e
xplo
re d
iffe
ren
t w
ays
of e
xpre
ssin
g b
elie
fs a
nd
val
ues
in a
rch
itec
ture
, mu
sic,
med
ia a
nd
th
e ar
ts, b
uild
ing
thei
r
un
der
stan
din
g o
f div
ersi
ty w
ith
in t
he
relig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
they
stu
dy.
No
te: T
he
focu
s in
th
is a
im o
n e
xpre
ssio
n a
nd
co
mm
un
icat
ion
co
nn
ects
th
e w
ays
peo
ple
fro
m d
iffe
ren
t re
ligio
us
or
no
n-r
elig
iou
s
back
grou
nds
expr
ess
thei
r id
eas
to th
e w
ays
lear
ners
them
selv
es e
xpre
ss th
eir
own
idea
s. B
oth
are
equa
lly im
port
ant i
n go
od R
E
lear
ning
.
Req
uir
emen
tsN
ote
: as
this
is n
ot
a st
atu
tory
do
cum
ent,
th
ese
are
no
t le
gal
req
uir
emen
ts a
s in
th
e
nat
ion
al c
urr
icu
lum
.
Exa
mp
les
and
no
tes
No
te: t
he
exam
ple
s fr
om
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s gi
ven
bel
ow
do
no
t co
nst
itu
te a
syl
lab
us
bu
t ill
ust
rate
wh
at is
mea
nt
in t
he
firs
t co
lum
n
B1
. Exp
lain
th
e re
ligio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s w
hic
h t
hey
enco
un
ter
clea
rly,
rea
son
ably
and
co
her
entl
y; e
valu
ate
them
, dra
win
g o
n a
ran
ge o
f
intr
od
uct
ory
leve
l ap
pro
ach
es
reco
gnis
ed in
th
e st
ud
y o
f
relig
ion
or
theo
logy
.
•
Stu
den
ts p
lan
, wri
te a
nd
del
iver
an
illu
stra
ted
tal
k ab
ou
t d
iffe
ren
t vi
ews
of l
ife
afte
r d
eath
, fro
m, f
or
exam
ple
, a h
um
anis
t, a
Bu
dd
his
t an
d
a C
hri
stia
n, u
sin
g ar
gum
ents
fro
m p
hilo
sop
hy o
f rel
igio
n a
nd
hu
man
exp
erie
nce
to
eva
luat
e va
ried
idea
s th
ou
ghtf
ully
•
Stu
den
ts u
se id
eas
fro
m t
he
soci
olo
gy o
f rel
igio
n, t
he
psy
cho
logy
of r
elig
ion
or
the
ph
iloso
phy
of r
elig
ion
to
exp
lain
th
e ap
pea
l of a
no
n-
relig
iou
s o
r a
Bu
dd
his
t, Is
lam
ic o
r C
hri
stia
n id
enti
ty t
o m
illio
ns
of p
eop
le in
Bri
tain
an
d /
or
the
wid
er w
orl
d t
od
ay
•
Stu
den
ts e
xper
ien
ce d
ialo
gue
bet
wee
n m
emb
ers
of d
iffe
ren
t re
ligio
ns
and
th
ose
wh
o h
old
a n
on
-rel
igio
us
wo
rld
view
. Th
ey c
on
sid
er
theo
logi
cal q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
tru
th t
hat
ari
se, g
ivin
g re
aso
ns
for
the
idea
s th
ey h
old
.
No
te: i
n w
ork
ing
to m
eet
this
aim
, stu
den
ts m
ay e
nco
un
ter
relig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
wit
h a
sig
nifi
can
t lo
cal p
rese
nce
, eve
n if
th
eir
nat
ion
al n
um
ber
s ar
e sm
all.
Exa
mp
les
mig
ht
incl
ud
e m
emb
ers
of t
he
Bah
á’í f
aith
, Jai
ns,
Zo
roas
tria
ns,
Lat
ter
Day
Sai
nts
or
Jeh
ovah
’s
Wit
nes
ses.
B2
. Ob
serv
e an
d in
terp
ret
a
wid
e ra
nge
of w
ays
in w
hic
h
com
mit
men
t an
d id
enti
ty
are
exp
ress
ed. T
hey
dev
elo
p
insi
ghtf
ul a
nal
ysis
an
d
eval
uat
ion
of c
on
trov
ersi
es
abo
ut
com
mit
men
t to
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s, a
cco
un
tin
g fo
r
the
imp
act
of d
iver
sity
wit
hin
and
bet
wee
n c
om
mu
nit
ies.
•
Stu
den
ts in
vest
igat
e an
d e
valu
ate
in a
n e
ssay
th
e in
flu
ence
of s
om
e co
nte
mp
ora
ry ‘g
reat
live
s’ o
n r
elig
iou
s co
mm
un
itie
s an
d t
he
wid
er
wo
rld
, wei
ghin
g u
p w
ays
in w
hic
h t
he
com
mit
men
t o
f key
lead
ers
can
insp
ire
wh
ole
co
mm
un
itie
s. T
hey
als
o c
on
sid
er q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
po
ssib
le d
ange
rs o
f co
mm
itm
ent
•
Stu
den
ts u
se a
n e
thn
ogr
aph
ic a
pp
roac
h t
o in
terv
iew
bel
ieve
rs r
epre
sen
tin
g d
iver
sity
wit
hin
a t
rad
itio
n a
bo
ut
wh
at m
akes
rel
igio
us
livin
g
chal
len
gin
g in
Bri
tain
to
day
e.g
. fro
m S
un
ni a
nd
Sh
i’a Is
lam
, Pro
test
ant
and
Cat
ho
lic C
hri
stia
nit
y o
r O
rth
od
ox a
nd
Ref
orm
Ju
dai
sm.
•
Stu
den
ts s
elec
t a
relig
iou
s co
ntr
over
sy in
cu
rren
t af
fair
s to
inve
stig
ate
(exa
mp
les:
Wh
at r
igh
ts c
an m
igra
nt
relig
iou
s co
mm
un
ity
mem
ber
s ex
pec
t in
th
e U
K w
ith
reg
ard
to
th
eir
relig
iou
s p
ract
ice?
Why
do
so
me
peo
ple
co
nver
t fr
om
on
e re
ligio
n t
o a
no
ther
? W
hy m
igh
t
som
e p
eop
le fr
om
dif
fere
nt
relig
iou
s gr
ou
ps
or
wo
rld
view
s th
ink
that
pro
tect
ing
the
envi
ron
men
t is
no
t a
maj
or
pri
ori
ty?)
Stu
den
ts p
rese
nt
argu
men
ts fr
om
bo
th s
ides
of t
he
con
trov
ersy
to
sh
ow
th
eir
abili
ty t
o a
nal
yse
issu
es fr
om
dif
fere
nt
per
spec
tive
s.
No
te: E
nga
gem
ent
wit
h c
on
trov
ersi
al is
sues
is a
t th
e h
eart
of g
oo
d R
E a
nd
on
e ai
m o
f th
e su
bje
ct is
to
en
able
res
pec
tfu
l dis
agre
emen
t.
B3
. Co
nsi
der
an
d e
valu
ate
the
qu
esti
on
: wh
at is
rel
igio
n?
An
alys
e th
e n
atu
re o
f rel
igio
n
usi
ng
the
mai
n d
isci
plin
es b
y
wh
ich
rel
igio
n is
stu
die
d.
•
Stu
den
ts c
on
sid
er t
he
qu
esti
on
s: W
hat
is r
elig
ion
? W
hat
is a
wo
rld
view
? T
hey
dev
elo
p s
kills
to
inte
rpre
t cl
aim
s m
ade
by d
iffe
ren
t
relig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
abo
ut
the
nat
ure
of r
ealit
y an
d t
he
valu
e o
f rel
igio
n
•
Stu
den
ts u
se m
eth
od
s o
f stu
dy
fro
m h
isto
ry, t
heo
logy
an
d p
hilo
sop
hy t
o a
ssem
ble
a c
oh
eren
t ca
se fo
r th
eir
answ
er t
o t
he
qu
esti
on
: In
the
twen
ty fi
rst
cen
tury
wo
rld
, is
relig
ion
a fo
rce
for
goo
d, o
r n
ot?
•
Stu
den
ts e
xam
ine
qu
esti
on
s ab
ou
t w
het
her
rel
igio
n a
nd
sp
irit
ual
ity
are
sim
ilar
or
dif
fere
nt,
ab
ou
t h
ow
dif
fere
nt
relig
ion
s an
d
wo
rld
view
s re
late
to
eac
h o
ther
an
d a
bo
ut
colla
bo
rati
on
an
d c
on
flic
t b
etw
een
ind
ivid
ual
s an
d c
om
mu
nit
ies,
incl
ud
ing
inte
r fa
ith
.
•
Stu
den
ts c
on
sid
er q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
wh
eth
er d
iffe
ren
t re
ligio
ns
are
com
pat
ible
or
inco
mp
atib
le, i
n fo
r ex
amp
le t
hei
r id
eas
abo
ut
Go
d o
r
the
ult
imat
e re
alit
y o
r d
ecid
ing
ho
w t
o li
ve a
go
od
life
.
No
te: i
t is
in m
eeti
ng
this
aim
of R
E t
hat
stu
den
ts b
uild
an
un
der
stan
din
g o
f rel
igio
n it
self
as
a p
hen
om
eno
n, r
ath
er t
han
mer
ely
stu
dyi
ng
relig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
on
e by
on
e.
23
Req
uir
emen
tsN
ote
: as
this
is n
ot
a st
atu
tory
do
cum
ent,
thes
e ar
e n
ot
lega
l req
uir
emen
ts a
s in
th
e
nat
ion
al c
urr
icu
lum
.
Exa
mp
les
and
no
tes
No
te: t
he
exam
ple
s fr
om
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s gi
ven
bel
ow
do
no
t co
nst
itu
te a
syl
lab
us
bu
t ill
ust
rate
wh
at is
mea
nt
in t
he
firs
t
colu
mn
C1
. Exp
lore
so
me
of t
he
ult
imat
e
qu
esti
on
s th
at a
re r
aise
d b
y h
um
an li
fe,
mak
ing
wel
l-in
form
ed a
nd
rea
son
ed
per
son
al r
esp
on
ses
and
exp
ress
ing
insi
ghts
th
at d
raw
on
a w
ide
ran
ge o
f
exam
ple
s in
clu
din
g th
e ar
ts, m
edia
an
d
ph
iloso
phy
.
•
Lin
kin
g to
Sci
ence
, stu
den
ts e
xam
ine
argu
men
ts a
bo
ut
qu
esti
on
s o
f ori
gin
s an
d p
urp
ose
in li
fe (W
her
e d
o w
e co
me
fro
m?
Why
are
we
her
e?)
•
Stu
den
ts d
evel
op
insi
ght
into
an
d u
nd
erst
and
ing
of w
hy s
om
e p
eop
le a
rgu
e th
at s
cien
ce a
nd
rel
igio
n c
an b
e co
mp
atib
le a
nd
oth
ers
argu
e th
at t
hey
can
no
t
•
Lin
kin
g to
exp
ress
ive
arts
, stu
den
ts in
vest
igat
e th
e w
ays
dra
ma,
bro
adca
st m
edia
an
d v
isu
al a
rtis
ts e
xplo
re q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
the
mea
nin
g o
f lif
e, s
elec
tin
g an
d e
xpla
inin
g ex
amp
les
that
th
ey fi
nd
co
mp
ellin
g an
d r
elat
ing
thes
e to
th
e te
ach
ing
of d
iffe
ren
t
relig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
•
Stu
den
ts d
evel
op
th
eir
skill
s in
rea
son
ing
and
co
nst
ruct
ing
argu
men
ts b
y d
ebat
ing
qu
esti
on
s an
d d
ilem
mas
ab
ou
t th
e n
atu
re o
f
hu
man
life
an
d t
he
mo
ral r
esp
on
sib
iliti
es o
f bei
ng
hu
man
.
No
te: t
his
aim
in R
E c
on
nec
ts p
hilo
sop
hic
al r
easo
nin
g w
ith
oth
er fo
rms
of e
xpre
ssio
n, u
sin
g th
e va
ried
tal
ents
stu
den
ts b
rin
g
to t
he
sub
ject
.
C2
. Exa
min
e an
d e
valu
ate
issu
es a
bo
ut
com
mu
nit
y re
lati
on
s an
d r
esp
ect
for
all
in t
he
ligh
t o
f dif
fere
nt
per
spec
tive
s fr
om
vari
ed r
elig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews.
•
Stu
den
ts c
on
sid
er w
hat
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s sa
y ab
ou
t w
hat
mak
es p
eop
le h
appy
. Th
ey s
eek
and
art
icu
late
exp
lan
atio
ns
for
links
bet
wee
n c
har
acte
r, w
ell-
bei
ng
and
hap
pin
ess,
esp
ecia
lly in
rel
atio
n t
o li
vin
g w
ith
dif
fere
nce
in o
ur
com
mu
nit
ies
•
Lin
kin
g to
Cit
izen
ship
Ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
His
tory
, stu
den
ts c
on
sid
er r
esp
on
ses
to g
eno
cid
e fr
om
dif
fere
nt
relig
ion
s, fo
r ex
amp
le
stu
dyi
ng
the
tho
ugh
t, t
heo
logy
an
d a
ctiv
ism
of P
rim
o L
evi,
Elie
Wie
sel a
nd
Die
tric
h B
on
ho
effe
r in
res
po
nse
to
Naz
ism
.
No
te: t
his
aim
of R
E p
rovi
des
sig
nifi
can
t o
pp
ort
un
itie
s fo
r sp
irit
ual
, mo
ral,
soci
al a
nd
cu
ltu
ral d
evel
op
men
t.
C3
. Exp
lore
an
d e
xpre
ss in
sigh
ts in
to
sign
ifica
nt
mo
ral a
nd
eth
ical
qu
esti
on
s
po
sed
by
bei
ng
hu
man
in w
ays
that
are
wel
l-in
form
ed a
nd
wh
ich
invi
te p
erso
nal
resp
on
se, u
sin
g re
aso
nin
g w
hic
h m
ay
dra
w o
n a
ran
ge o
f exa
mp
les
fro
m r
eal
life,
fict
ion
or
oth
er fo
rms
of m
edia
.
•
Stu
den
ts c
on
sid
er t
he
imp
act
of e
thic
al c
ho
ices
. Th
ey c
ou
ld c
reat
e a
‘mu
lti-
pat
h n
arra
tive
’ ab
ou
t a
con
tem
po
rary
mo
ral i
ssu
e,
sho
win
g w
hat
th
e co
nse
qu
ence
s o
f dif
fere
nt
cho
ices
mig
ht
be
and
eva
luat
ing
the
imp
act
of m
ora
l ch
oic
es w
ith
dis
cern
men
t
•
Stu
den
ts m
ake
com
pel
ling
and
rea
son
able
co
nn
ecti
on
s b
etw
een
wh
at r
elig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
teac
h a
nd
wh
at t
hey
say
ab
ou
t
issu
es s
uch
as
star
vati
on
aro
un
d t
he
wo
rld
, th
e sa
nct
ity
of l
ife,
env
iro
nm
enta
l eth
ics,
war
or
pre
jud
ice
•
Stu
den
ts c
on
sid
er p
hilo
sop
hic
al, e
thic
al a
nd
rel
igio
us
qu
esti
on
s ab
ou
t w
hat
it m
ean
s to
be
hu
man
, fo
r ex
amp
le q
ues
tio
ns
po
sed
in r
elat
ion
to
th
e d
evel
op
men
t o
f new
med
ical
tec
hn
olo
gies
.
No
te: t
his
aim
of R
E p
rovi
des
sig
nifi
can
t o
pp
ort
un
itie
s fo
r st
ud
ents
’ mo
ral a
nd
so
cial
dev
elo
pm
ent.
24
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Key stage 4 and RE 16-19
All students14 should extend and deepen their knowledge and understanding of religions and worldviews, reflecting local, national and global contexts. Building on their prior learning, they appreciate and appraise the nature of different religions and worldviews in systematic ways. They should use a wide range of concepts in the field of Religious Studies confidently and flexibly to interpret, contextualise and analyse the expressions of religions and worldviews they encounter. They should be able to research and investigate the influence and impact of religions and worldviews on the values and lives of both individuals and groups, evaluating their impact on current affairs. They should be able to appreciate and appraise the beliefs and practices of different religions and worldviews with an increasing level of discernment based on interpretation, evaluation and analysis, developing and articulating well-reasoned positions. They should be able to use some of the different disciplines of Religious Studies (eg textual study, philosophical and sociological approaches) to analyse the nature of religion.
More specifically students should be taught to:• investigate and analyse the beliefs and practices of religions and worldviews using a range of
arguments and evidence to interpret and evaluate issues and draw balanced conclusions;• synthesise their own and others’ ideas and arguments about sources of wisdom and authority using
coherent reasoning, making clear and appropriate reference to their historical, cultural and social contexts;
• analyse in a coherent and well informed way the forms of expression and ways of life found in different religions and worldviews;
• use different disciplines and methods by which religions and worldviews are studied to analyse their influence on individuals and societies;
• account for varied interpretations of commitment to religions and worldviews and for responses to profound questions about the expression of identity, diversity, meaning and value;
• argue for and justify their own positions with regard to key questions about the nature of religion, providing a detailed evaluation of the perspectives of others;
• enquire into and develop insightful evaluations of ultimate questions about the purposes and commitments of human life, especially as expressed in the arts, media and philosophy;
• use a range of research methods to examine and critically evaluate varied perspectives and approaches to issues of community cohesion, respect for all and mutual understanding, locally, nationally and globally;
• use ideas from phenomenological approaches to the study of religions and beliefs to research and present skilfully a wide range of well-informed and reasonable arguments which engage profoundly with moral, religious and spiritual issues.
14All state funded schools must teach RE to all students on school rolls, including all those in 14-19 education, unless withdrawn by their parents (or by themselves if aged 18 or over). It is important that teaching enables progression from the end of key stage 3, in ways that meet the varied learning needs of all students. All students can reasonably expect their learning will be accredited. These modes of accreditation include nationally accredited courses in RE such as GCSE and A level RS. Good practice examples include many schools of different types where all students take GCSE RS or other accredited courses at 16. Requirements are different in FE and sixth form colleges (see: http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curriculum/a0064886/religious-education-in-english-schools-non-statutory-guidance-2010)
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This appendix provides an interim response to the REC’s expert panel report, which recommended that ‘new instruments for describing achievement in RE are created, that teachers can use working alongside the DfE’s new descriptions of achievement in subjects like English, Mathematics and Science.’
Mirroring the subjects of the national curriculum, RE syllabus makers and teachers have used an eight level scale to describe learning intentions, expectations and achievements for many years. The effectiveness of such scales has been a contested area in RE as in other subjects, and as the DfE has set aside 8 level scales for other subjects, this document does not offer an 8 level scale for RE. Consultations on the RE Council’s draft materials suggested a wide consensus about the need for further future national work in this area, but mixed professional views about this: many teachers will wish to continue to use RE levels, while others will not.
The NCFRE includes this statement: ‘By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the relevant programme of study.’ This statement is also included in the programmes of study for each subject of the national curriculum. There is a clear expectation that pupils’ achievements will continue to be weighed up by teachers using criteria arising from the programmes of study. The RE Council notes that the DfE expects schools to have a curriculum and assessment framework that meets a set of core principles57 and commends this advice to syllabus makers and teachers in RE as they plan particular ways of describing achievement in RE in those schools for which they have responsibility.
The core principles are that assessment should:
1. set out steps so that pupils reach or exceed the end of key stage expectations in the new national curriculum;
2. enable teachers to measure whether pupils are on track to meet end of key stage expectations;
3. enable teachers to pinpoint the aspects of the curriculum in which pupils are falling behind, and recognise exceptional performance;
4. support teachers’ planning for all pupils;
5. enable the teacher to report regularly to parents and, where pupils move to other schools, providing clear information about each pupil’s strengths, weaknesses and progress towards the end of key stage expectations.
AppendixExpectations, progression and achievement in religious education: a contribution to current discussion.
57 These 5 expectations upon schools are drawn from Primary assessment and accountability under the new national curriculum, a DfE consultation document published July 2013.
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In the light of these DfE concerns and in relation to RE, syllabus makers and teachers will need to consider these 5 questions, to which we provide answers from the subject review below.
What steps within an assessment framework enable pupils to reach or exceed the end of key stage expectations in the RE curriculum? In RE, at 7, 11 and 14, pupils should show that they know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the programme of study This should enable teachers to plan, assess and report on progress in RE as outlined in the principles above.
Areas of enquiry to be included The programme of study enables pupils to increase and deepen their knowledge and understanding of key areas of enquiry in RE. These relate to the religions and worldviews studied. The range of key areas of enquiry in RE can be described like this:
• beliefs, teachings, sources of wisdom and authority; • ways of living; • ways of expressing meaning; • questions of identity, diversity and belonging; • questions of meaning, purpose and truth; • questions of values and commitments.
While this list bears a close relation to previous versions of RE curriculum guidance (e.g. the QCA non statutory National Framework for RE of 2004), the purpose of its inclusion here is to provide a checklist of areas in which pupils will make progress in RE and also to guide syllabus makers in developing appropriate statements of attainment for different groups of pupils. This task will require further work within the RE community.
Gaining and deploying skills The programme of study also illustrates progression in skills across the 5-14 age range. In relation to the religions and worldviews they study, pupils are increasingly enabled to develop both their knowledge and understanding and their expression and communication through the skills that they gain and deploy. While the programme of study makes clear the skills that are expected of learners at the end of each key stage, progress towards these outcomes will need careful planning in schemes of learning.
The progression in understanding and skills that the programmes of study envisage are made explicit in the grid below. This is presented for syllabus makers to consider as they approach the task of designing instruments that will enable fair, valid and manageable assessment for learning in RE.
A: K
no
w a
bo
ut
&
un
der
stan
dA
t th
e en
d o
f key
sta
ge
1 p
up
ils w
ill b
e ab
le t
o:
At
the
end
of k
ey s
tage
2 p
up
ils
will
be
able
to
:A
t th
e en
d o
f key
sta
ge 3
pu
pils
will
be
able
to
:
A1
. Des
crib
e, e
xpla
in
and
an
alys
e b
elie
fs, a
nd
pra
ctic
es, r
eco
gnis
ing
the
div
ersi
ty w
hic
h e
xist
s
wit
hin
an
d b
etw
een
com
mu
nit
ies
Rec
all a
nd
nam
e d
iffe
ren
t
bel
iefs
an
d p
ract
ices
,
incl
ud
ing
fest
ival
s, w
ors
hip
,
ritu
als
and
way
s o
f lif
e, in
ord
er t
o fi
nd
ou
t ab
ou
t th
e
mea
nin
gs b
ehin
d t
hem
Des
crib
e an
d m
ake
con
nec
tio
ns
bet
wee
n d
iffe
ren
t fe
atu
res
of t
he
relig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
they
stu
dy,
dis
cove
rin
g m
ore
ab
ou
t ce
leb
rati
on
s,
wo
rsh
ip, p
ilgri
mag
es a
nd
th
e ri
tual
s
wh
ich
mar
k im
po
rtan
t p
oin
ts in
life
, in
ord
er t
o r
eflec
t o
n t
hei
r id
eas
Exp
lain
an
d in
terp
ret
way
s th
at t
he
his
tory
an
d
cult
ure
of r
elig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
infl
uen
ce
ind
ivid
ual
s an
d c
om
mu
nit
ies,
incl
ud
ing
a w
ide
ran
ge
of b
elie
fs a
nd
pra
ctic
es, i
n o
rder
to
ap
pra
ise
reas
on
s
why
so
me
peo
ple
su
pp
ort
an
d o
ther
s q
ues
tio
n t
hes
e
infl
uen
ces
A2
. Id
enti
fy, i
nves
tiga
te
and
res
po
nd
to
qu
esti
on
s
po
sed
by,
an
d r
esp
on
ses
off
ered
by,
so
me
of
the
sou
rces
of w
isd
om
fou
nd
in r
elig
ion
s an
d
wo
rld
view
s
Ret
ell a
nd
su
gges
t m
ean
ings
to s
om
e re
ligio
us
and
mo
ral
sto
ries
, exp
lori
ng
and
dis
cuss
ing
sacr
ed w
riti
ngs
and
so
urc
es o
f wis
do
m a
nd
reco
gnis
ing
the
com
mu
nit
ies
fro
m w
hic
h t
hey
co
me
Des
crib
e an
d u
nd
erst
and
lin
ks b
etw
een
sto
ries
an
d o
ther
asp
ects
of t
he
com
mu
nit
ies
they
are
inve
stig
atin
g,
resp
on
din
g th
ou
ghtf
ully
to
a r
ange
of s
ou
rces
of w
isd
om
an
d t
o b
elie
fs
and
tea
chin
gs t
hat
ari
se fr
om
th
em in
dif
fere
nt
com
mu
nit
ies
Exp
lain
an
d in
terp
ret
a ra
nge
of b
elie
fs, t
each
ings
and
so
urc
es o
f wis
do
m a
nd
au
tho
rity
in o
rder
to
un
der
stan
d r
elig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
as c
oh
eren
t
syst
ems
or
way
s o
f see
ing
the
wo
rld
A3
. Ap
pre
ciat
e an
d
app
rais
e th
e n
atu
re,
sign
ifica
nce
an
d im
pac
t
of d
iffe
ren
t w
ays
of l
ife
and
way
s o
f exp
ress
ing
mea
nin
g
Rec
ogn
ise
som
e d
iffe
ren
t
sym
bo
ls a
nd
act
ion
s w
hic
h
exp
ress
a c
om
mu
nit
y’s
way
of l
ife,
ap
pre
ciat
ing
som
e si
mila
riti
es b
etw
een
com
mu
nit
ies
Exp
lore
an
d d
escr
ibe
a ra
nge
of b
elie
fs,
sym
bo
ls a
nd
act
ion
s so
th
at t
hey
can
un
der
stan
d d
iffe
ren
t w
ays
of l
ife
and
way
s o
f exp
ress
ing
mea
nin
g
Exp
lain
ho
w a
nd
why
ind
ivid
ual
s an
d c
om
mu
nit
ies
exp
ress
th
e m
ean
ings
of t
hei
r b
elie
fs a
nd
val
ues
in
man
y d
iffe
ren
t fo
rms
and
way
s o
f liv
ing,
en
qu
irin
g
into
th
e va
riet
y, d
iffe
ren
ces
and
rel
atio
nsh
ips
that
exis
t w
ith
in a
nd
bet
wee
n t
hem
Aim
s in
RE:
a p
rogr
essi
on
gri
d
28
B: E
xpre
ss &
co
mm
un
icat
eA
t th
e en
d o
f key
st
age
1 p
up
ils w
ill b
e ab
le t
o:
At
the
end
of k
ey s
tage
2 p
up
ils
will
be
able
to
:A
t th
e en
d o
f key
sta
ge 3
pu
pils
will
be
able
to
:
B1
. Exp
lain
rea
son
ably
thei
r id
eas
abo
ut
ho
w
bel
iefs
, pra
ctic
es a
nd
form
s
of e
xpre
ssio
n in
flu
ence
ind
ivid
ual
s an
d c
om
mu
nit
ies
Ask
an
d r
esp
on
d
to q
ues
tio
ns
abo
ut
wh
at c
om
mu
nit
ies
do
, an
d w
hy, s
o t
hat
they
can
iden
tify
wh
at
dif
fere
nce
bel
on
gin
g to
a
com
mu
nit
y m
igh
t m
ake
Ob
serv
e an
d u
nd
erst
and
var
ied
exam
ple
s o
f rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s so
that
th
ey c
an e
xpla
in, w
ith
rea
son
s, t
hei
r
mea
nin
gs a
nd
sig
nifi
can
ce t
o in
div
idu
als
and
co
mm
un
itie
s
Exp
lain
th
e re
ligio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s w
hic
h t
hey
enco
un
ter
clea
rly,
rea
son
ably
an
d c
oh
eren
tly;
eval
uat
e th
em, d
raw
ing
on
a r
ange
of i
ntr
od
uct
ory
leve
l ap
pro
ach
es r
eco
gnis
ed in
th
e st
ud
y o
f rel
igio
n o
r
theo
logy
B2
. Exp
ress
wit
h in
crea
sin
g
dis
cern
men
t th
eir
per
son
al
refl
ecti
on
s an
d c
riti
cal
resp
on
ses
to q
ues
tio
ns
and
teac
hin
gs a
bo
ut
iden
tity
,
div
ersi
ty, m
ean
ing
and
val
ue
Ob
serv
e an
d r
eco
un
t
dif
fere
nt
way
s o
f
exp
ress
ing
iden
tity
an
d
bel
on
gin
g, r
esp
on
din
g
sen
siti
vely
for
them
selv
es
Un
der
stan
d t
he
chal
len
ges
of
com
mit
men
t to
a c
om
mu
nit
y o
f fai
th
or
bel
ief,
sugg
esti
ng
why
bel
on
gin
g to
a
com
mu
nit
y m
ay b
e va
luab
le, b
oth
in t
he
div
erse
co
mm
un
itie
s b
ein
g st
ud
ied
an
d
in t
hei
r o
wn
live
s
Ob
serv
e an
d in
terp
ret
a w
ide
ran
ge o
f way
s in
wh
ich
com
mit
men
t an
d id
enti
ty a
re e
xpre
ssed
. Th
ey d
evel
op
insi
ghtf
ul e
valu
atio
n a
nd
an
alys
is o
f co
ntr
over
sies
abo
ut
com
mit
men
t to
rel
igio
ns
and
wo
rld
view
s,
acco
un
tin
g fo
r th
e im
pac
t o
f div
ersi
ty w
ith
in a
nd
bet
wee
n c
om
mu
nit
ies
B3
. Ap
pre
ciat
e an
d a
pp
rais
e
vari
ed d
imen
sio
ns
of
relig
ion
58
No
tice
an
d r
esp
on
d
sen
siti
vely
to
so
me
sim
ilari
ties
bet
wee
n
dif
fere
nt
relig
ion
s an
d
wo
rld
view
s
Ob
serv
e an
d c
on
sid
er d
iffe
ren
t
dim
ensi
on
s o
f rel
igio
n, s
o t
hat
th
ey c
an
exp
lore
an
d s
ho
w u
nd
erst
and
ing
of
sim
ilari
ties
an
d d
iffe
ren
ces
bet
wee
n
dif
fere
nt
relig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
Co
nsi
der
an
d e
valu
ate
the
qu
esti
on
: wh
at is
rel
igio
n?
An
alys
e th
e n
atu
re o
f rel
igio
n u
sin
g th
e m
ain
dis
cip
lines
by
wh
ich
rel
igio
n is
stu
die
d
58
Th
e R
E p
rogr
amm
e o
f stu
dy
usu
ally
ref
ers
to ‘r
elig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews’
to
des
crib
e th
e fi
eld
of e
nq
uir
y. H
ere
the
aim
is t
o c
on
sid
er r
elig
ion
an
d b
elie
f its
elf a
s a
ph
eno
men
on
w
hic
h h
as b
oth
po
siti
ve a
nd
neg
ativ
e fe
atu
res,
an
d is
op
en t
o m
any
inte
rpre
tati
on
s: in
th
is a
spec
t o
f th
e ai
ms,
pu
pils
are
to
en
gage
wit
h t
he
con
cep
t o
f rel
igio
n a
nd
no
n-r
elig
iou
s b
elie
f, n
ot
mer
ely
wit
h in
div
idu
al e
xam
ple
s, a
nd
sim
ilar
crit
iqu
es s
ho
uld
ap
ply
to
bo
th.
29
Th
e co
nte
nt
in A
ims
A a
nd
B w
ill b
e th
e ve
hic
le t
hro
ugh
wh
ich
th
e sk
ills
in A
im C
will
be
dev
elo
ped
C: G
ain
& d
eplo
y sk
ills
At
the
end
of k
ey
stag
e 1
pu
pils
will
be
able
to
:
At
the
end
of k
ey s
tage
2 p
up
ils
will
be
able
to
:A
t th
e en
d o
f key
sta
ge 3
pu
pils
w
ill b
e ab
le t
o:
C1
. Fin
d o
ut
abo
ut
and
inve
stig
ate
key
con
cep
ts a
nd
qu
esti
on
s
of b
elo
ngi
ng,
mea
nin
g,
pu
rpo
se a
nd
tru
th,
resp
on
din
g cr
eati
vely
;
Exp
lore
qu
esti
on
s ab
ou
t
bel
on
gin
g, m
ean
ing
and
tru
th s
o t
hat
th
ey c
an
exp
ress
th
eir
ow
n id
eas
and
op
inio
ns
in r
esp
on
se
usi
ng
wo
rds,
mu
sic,
art
or
po
etry
Dis
cuss
an
d p
rese
nt
thei
r o
wn
an
d
oth
ers’
vie
ws
on
ch
alle
ngi
ng
qu
esti
on
s
abo
ut
bel
on
gin
g, m
ean
ing,
pu
rpo
se
and
tru
th, a
pp
lyin
g id
eas
of t
hei
r
ow
n t
ho
ugh
tfu
lly in
dif
fere
nt
form
s
incl
ud
ing
(e.g
.) re
aso
nin
g, m
usi
c, a
rt
and
po
etry
Exp
lore
so
me
of t
he
ult
imat
e q
ues
tio
ns
that
are
rai
sed
by
hu
man
life
in w
ays
that
are
wel
l-in
form
ed a
nd
wh
ich
invi
te r
easo
ned
per
son
al r
esp
on
ses,
exp
ress
ing
insi
ghts
th
at d
raw
on
a w
ide
ran
ge o
f exa
mp
les
incl
ud
ing
the
arts
,
med
ia a
nd
ph
iloso
phy
C2
. En
qu
ire
into
wh
at
enab
les
dif
fere
nt
com
mu
nit
ies
to li
ve
toge
ther
res
pec
tfu
lly fo
r
the
wel
l-b
ein
g o
f all
Fin
d o
ut
abo
ut
and
resp
on
d w
ith
idea
s to
exam
ple
s o
f co
-op
erat
ion
bet
wee
n p
eop
le w
ho
are
dif
fere
nt
Co
nsi
der
an
d a
pp
ly id
eas
abo
ut
way
s
in w
hic
h d
iver
se c
om
mu
nit
ies
can
live
toge
ther
for
the
wel
l-b
ein
g o
f all,
resp
on
din
g th
ou
ghtf
ully
to
idea
s ab
ou
t
com
mu
nit
y, v
alu
es a
nd
res
pec
t
Exa
min
e an
d e
valu
ate
issu
es a
bo
ut
com
mu
nit
y co
hes
ion
an
d r
esp
ect
for
all i
n t
he
ligh
t o
f dif
fere
nt
per
spec
tive
s
fro
m v
arie
d r
elig
ion
s an
d w
orl
dvi
ews
C3
. Art
icu
late
bel
iefs
,
valu
es a
nd
co
mm
itm
ents
clea
rly
in o
rder
to
exp
lain
reas
on
s w
hy t
hey
may
be
imp
ort
ant
in t
hei
r o
wn
and
oth
er p
eop
le’s
live
s.
Fin
d o
ut
abo
ut
qu
esti
on
s
of r
igh
t an
d w
ron
g an
d
beg
in t
o e
xpre
ss t
hei
r
idea
s an
d o
pin
ion
s in
resp
on
se.
Dis
cuss
an
d a
pp
ly t
hei
r o
wn
an
d
oth
ers’
idea
s ab
ou
t et
hic
al q
ues
tio
ns,
incl
ud
ing
idea
s ab
ou
t w
hat
is r
igh
t
and
wro
ng
and
wh
at is
just
an
d fa
ir,
and
exp
ress
th
eir
ow
n id
eas
clea
rly
in
resp
on
se.
Exp
lore
an
d e
xpre
ss in
sigh
ts in
to
sign
ifica
nt
mo
ral a
nd
eth
ical
qu
esti
on
s
po
sed
by
bei
ng
hu
man
in w
ays
that
are
wel
l-in
form
ed a
nd
wh
ich
invi
te
per
son
al r
esp
on
se, u
sin
g re
aso
nin
g
wh
ich
may
dra
w o
n a
ran
ge o
f exa
mp
les
fro
m r
eal l
ife,
fict
ion
or
oth
er fo
rms
of
med
ia.
30
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