Religious Education
Religious Education is a core subject in all Catholic Schools. Here at Sacred Heart, we recognise its importance and the teaching of RE is given 10% of our timetabled teaching time.
In Years 4,5 and 6, we use The Way, the Truth and The Life for our RE teaching and refer to the new interpretation of learning objectives from the Diocese. There are 6 topics across the year.
In Reception, KS1 and Year 3, we use the scheme ‘Lighting the Path’ to meet the requirements of the new Religious Education Directory for Catholic schools in England and Wales. The scheme has been adapted to incorporate appropriate challenge for Year 3. Lighting the Path scheme of work will be extended to KS2 once resources are available.
We also teach our children about other world faiths across the school, with a lesson dedicated to this every half-term.
We have daily Celebration of the Word; Class based Celebration of the Word takes place Monday to Thursday with a Whole School Celebration of the Word on Fridays.
We also have regular class assemblies on Fridays where Special Mention awards are handed out and parents are warmly invited to these. Regular Whole School Masses and Class Masses in Key Stage 2 take place throughout the year, families and parishioners attend these.