At Co-op Academy Grove we follow the Stoke-on-Trent agreed syllabus for Religious Education.

This scheme ensures pupils make sense of a range of religious and non-religious world views, understand the impact and significance of religious and non-religious world beliefs and ensures they can make connections between religious and non-religious beliefs, concepts, practices and ideas studied.

The purpose of Religious Education.

Religious Education is important for all pupils in the hopes of building an open, articulate and understanding society. 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 Religious Education, pupils learn about religions and beliefs in local, national and global contexts, to discover, explore and consider different answers to various questions.

Pupils 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 equips pupils with systematic knowledge and understanding of a range of religions and beliefs, enabling them to develop their ideas, values and identities.

Religious Education develops in pupils an aptitude for dialogue so that they can participate positively in our society, with its diverse religions and beliefs.

Pupils should gain and deploy the skills needed to understand, interpret and evaluate texts, sources of wisdom and authority and other evidence. They should learn to articulate clearly and confidently their personal beliefs, ideas, values and experiences while respecting the right of others to differ.