At Hanslope Primary School, our Religious Education curriculum is built upon the Milton Keynes Agreed Syllabus and is sequenced through a carefully planned two-year rolling programme. This ensures that all pupils experience a broad, balanced and coherent RE curriculum, regardless of whether they begin a phase in Cycle A or Cycle B.
Our curriculum is organised around clear golden threads. These golden threads help pupils make meaningful connections across religions, worldviews, concepts and year groups. Through revisiting key ideas over time, pupils develop a deeper, more connected and more secure understanding of religion and belief.
Across the school, pupils develop both substantive knowledge and disciplinary knowledge. Substantive knowledge is the core content pupils learn about religions and worldviews, including beliefs, practices, sacred texts, celebrations, communities and ways of living. Disciplinary knowledge is how pupils learn to think and work as scholars of religion and worldviews, including asking questions, exploring different perspectives, interpreting sources, making comparisons, reflecting on meaning and evaluating ideas.
Vocabulary is carefully planned and revisited so that pupils can discuss religious and non-religious worldviews with increasing accuracy, confidence and respect. Through this approach, pupils build the knowledge and skills needed to understand diversity, make connections and engage thoughtfully with important questions about belief, identity, meaning and purpose.
Subject Leader: Mrs Jenny Broughton