Religion and Worldviews (RW)

Intent 

At Great Kimble School, our Religion and Worldviews curriculum is designed to nurture big hearts and bold futures by developing pupils’ understanding of faiths, beliefs and worldviews from across the world. We aim to foster curiosity, respect and a genuine love of learning about religion and belief, enabling pupils to explore similarities and differences with openness and thoughtfulness.

Using the ODBE 2023 units as a foundation, our curriculum is carefully mapped to ensure focus, coherence and progression. Knowledge and skills are taught sequentially, building on prior learning and laying strong foundations for future understanding. Through an enquiry-based approach, pupils study the principal world faiths and humanism in a progressive way from Reception to Year 6, with careful consideration given to pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Our curriculum takes pupils on a meaningful journey through key concepts structured around three core strands: Beliefs and Questions, Community and Identity, and Reality and Truth. These strands connect substantive and disciplinary knowledge, while also providing opportunities for pupils to develop personal understanding and reflection.

By exploring religious and non-religious worldviews, pupils develop big hearts through empathy, respect and appreciation of diversity, while gaining the knowledge and critical thinking skills needed to navigate a complex world. In doing so, our Religion and Worldviews curriculum prepares pupils for bold futures as reflective, informed and compassionate individuals.

• Beliefs and questions will focus on theology, looking at the core beliefs and diverse interpretations of text, symbols and teachings of the chosen religions and worldviews.

• Community and identity will focus on Human and Social Science and using data and other sources to examine practices and human expressions of religious and non-religious beliefs.

• Reality and truth will focus on philosophy and ethics, looking at how people decide what is true and reliable drawing on the worldviews covered in the other units. It is in these units that pupils will have the opportunity to explore the wider concept of what a worldview is and how people reach these ideas.

RW is compulsory in schools however, parents can ask to withdraw their child form part or all of lessons. If this is something you wish to discuss, please email the school office FAO Mrs Haynes and Mrs Hunt.