RE Curriculum
Here at the Rosary we aim to fulfil our Mission Statement – Jesus Christ, Son of Mary, Son of the God is the centre of the Rosary community, where we live, love and learn together – through the delivery of the curriculum and through the messages inherent in the values which we share and permeate through all areas of school life.
Religious Education is not solely about developing each child’s religious knowledge. It is concerned with providing opportunities and experiences through which each child can grow and develop in their faith and spirituality. As a school, we aim to develop every child’s Spiritual, Moral, Social, Vocational and Cultural skills as a part of the RE programme linking to the teachings of Christ. Furthermore, it is concerned with providing opportunities whereby each child can experience expressions of our Catholic culture and heritage.
Our school follows the curriculum strategy – Discerning Disples – provided by the Archdiocese of Birmingham for teaching RE in a Catholic primary school.
RE is allocated 10% of curriculum time in line with the expectations of the Archdiocese. Children will participate in whole school masses, class masses, hymn practices and prayer services.
Discerning Disciples
Discerning Disciples is the religious education curriculum for Catholic primary schools in the Archdiocese of
Birmingham. It has been developed in full accordance with the Religious Education Directory (RED), the curriculum
directory issued by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales which sets out what pupils in Catholic
schools should know, understand, and be able to do in religious education.
The curriculum supports the shared mission of our diocesan family of schools: forming Christ-centred pilgrims of
hope with kind hearts, questioning minds, a thirst for knowledge and a hunger for justice.
Discerning Disciples is organised into the six •branches’ of the RED, which align with the Catholic Church’s liturgical
year:
Creation and Covenant
Prophecy and Promise
Galilee to Jerusalem
Desert to Garden
TO the Ends Of the Earth
Dialogue and Encounter
Across these branches, pupils encounter Sacred Scripture, deepen their knowledge and understanding of Catholic
faith and teaching, study prayer, liturgy, and the sacraments, and consider how faith is lived in the world. Through
Dialogue and Encounter, they also leam about other faiths and religions, and develop the knowledge, understanding,
and dispositions needed for respectful dialogue.
At the heart of Discerning Disciples are the REDs three ways of knowing: understand, discern and respond. Pupils are therefore encouraged not simply to acquire religious knowledge, but to think deeply about What they learn, make
connections, consider different perspectives and make thoughtful judgements. In doing so, religious education helps
pupils to grow in knowledge, wisdom and understanding and to reflect on how what they learn might shape the way
they live.
