1. RE in the New Curriculum sEPTEMBER 2014
Course tutors:
Marilyn Cowling
Sue Holmes
RE in the New Curriculum sEPTEMBER 2014
September 16, pm
Priory Centre, Hull
September 24
Parkside Primary, Goole
September 25
Boynton Primary, Bridlington
Twilight session to focus on ways in which to manage time/incorporate/make links for RE within your new curriculum model.

2. First, the time issue…
In KS1 for example, if English and maths are taught during the morning sessions then the remaining 9 subjects (no MFL required) get half an afternoon each with one session remaining to share. (Collective worship should not come out of curriculum time). Over a year, 36 weeks, that gives each foundation subject and RE an additional 4 sessions. In KS2 following a similar pattern but including MFL, each foundation subject and RE may be given one session (usually of one hour) per week.

3. Second, blending RE within a thematic or creative curriculum Approach…
Incorporating RE within a thematic approach will depend largely on the themes themselves and how well the teaching objectives and learning outcomes of the statutory ‘fields of enquiry’ may be addressed. It may be necessary to teach some discrete RE lessons or have BIG RE learning days to ensure that the statutory elements of the Agreed Syllabus are met. We will consider further how this issue may be addressed as it will apply to all subjects of the new curriculum where a school follows a thematic or creative curriculum model.

4. Third, teaching RE whilst meeting the requirements of other subjects (& Vice versa)
Looking at the statutory requirements and guidance of the Programmes of Study for each subject in Key Stages 1 & 2 we can see many opportunities to meet the attainment targets of RE whilst teaching, for example, English, art & design, history, music, etc. Where you think that the new curriculum has left gaps (e.g. science & the environment,WW1) … RE may be the vehicle to include something that has always been popular and considered worthy of study.

5. Every state-funded school must offer a curriculum which is balanced and broadly based and which:
promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society, and
prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.
The school curriculum comprises all learning and other experiences that each school plans for its pupils. The national curriculum forms one part of the school curriculum.
All state schools are also required to make provision for a daily act of collective worship and must teach religious education to pupils at every key stage and sex and relationship education to pupils in secondary education.
See Section 78 of the 2002 Education Act: which applies to all maintained schools. Academies are also required to offer a broad and balanced curriculum in accordance with Section 1 of the 2010 Academies Act:

6. What is statutory in RE?
The six Fields of Enquiry are the only statutory elements of our Agreed Syllabus:
Beliefs, teachings and sources
Practices and ways of life
Expressing meaning
Identity, diversity and belonging
Meaning, purpose and truth
Values and commitments
…and the related teaching objectives and learning outcomes are what needs to be covered in KS1 and KS2.
Will need careful mapping and auditing in a thematic curriculum model.

7. New Curriculum P.o.S - English
Year 1 - Units 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3 will provide opportunities to meet criteria for speaking and listening. In addition Units 1.2 and 1.3 may support writing requirements Year 4 – All RE Units provide opportunities for pupils to achieve some of the criteria for reading, writing and speaking and listening Year 6 – All RE Units provide opportunities for pupils to achieve most reading criteria, some writing and most of the speaking and listening criteria

8. Maths
Year 1 - Units 1.2 & 1.3 may provide opportunities to use time and ordering vocabulary, language of days, months and years and order and arrange objects Year 4 - Unit 4.3 may provide opportunities to use bar charts, pictograms and line graphs (fortune lines for RE) Year 5/6 - Unit 5.1 may provide opportunities to measure and identify angles, understand regular polygons, know and use angle rules, translate and reflect shapes through exploration of Islamic geometric designs

9. Art & dESIGN
Year 1 - Unit 1 may provide opportunities to use a range of materials, use drawing, painting and sculpture Year 4 – Units 4.1 & 4.3 may provide opportunities to use sketchbooks to collect, record and evaluate ideas, improve mastery of techniques of drawing, painting and sculpture, learn about great artists, architects and designers Year 6 – Unit 6.2 may provide opportunities to use sketchbooks to collect, record and evaluate ideas, improve mastery of techniques of drawing, painting and sculpture, learn about great artists, architects and designers

10. computing
Year 1 - Unit 1.1 may provide opportunities to organise, store, retrieve and manipulate data, units 1.2 & 1.3 may provide opportunities to communicate online safely and respectfully and recognise uses of IT outside of school Year 4 - all RE units provide opportunities to use the internet safely and appropriately and collect and present data appropriately Year 6 - Unit 6.3 may provide opportunities to be discerning in evaluating digital content

11. Design & Technology
Year 1 - Unit 1.1 may provide opportunities to use a range of tools & materials to complete practical tasks, understand where food comes from; and Unit 1.3 to design purposeful, functional and appealing products and to evaluate existing products and their own ideas Year 4 - Units 4.1 & 4.3 may provide opportunities to understand seasonality; prepare and cook mainly savoury dishes Year 6 - Unit 6.2 may provide opportunities to cook savoury dishes for a healthy and varied diet

12. Geography
Year 1 - Unit 1.3 may provide opportunities to use four compass point directions and simple vocabulary
Year 4 - Unit 4.3 may provide opportunities to study a region of the UK (not local area) and use fieldwork to observe, measure and record
Year 6 - Units 5.3 & 6.1 may provide opportunities to name and locate counties, cities, regions & features of UK

13. history
Year 1 - Unit 1.1 may provide opportunities to consider changes in living memory; lives of significant historical figures, significant local people, events of local importance Year 4 - Unit 4.3 may provide opportunities to learn about earliest ancient civilisations i.e. Ancient Sumer, Indus Valley Year 6 - Unit 6.1 may provide opportunities to consider crime and punishment; Islamic civilisation, including Baghdad…

14. Science
Year 1 - Unit 1.2 may provide opportunities to identify plants and animals and their parts and to identify and name common materials and compare and classify materials Year 4 - Unit 4.3 may provide opportunities to classify living things, explore food chains, consider changes of state, the water cycle Year 6 - Unit 6.2 may provide opportunities to link to the BIG questions raised by the study of evolution and adaptation and also links back to 4.3

15. Music
Year 1 - Units 1.1 & 1.3 may provide opportunities to sing songs, listen to and understand live and recorded music, make and combine sounds musically Year 4 - Units 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 may provide opportunities to listen with attention to detail, appreciate a wide range of live and recorded music and begin to develop understanding of the history of music Year 6 - Unit 6.3 may provide opportunities to develop an understanding of the history of music, including great musicians and composers

16. School curriculum
All schools are required to set out their school curriculum on a year by year basis and make this available online. Is RE included and published online in exactly the same way, as part of this requirement?