St Anthony's Catholic Primary School
Religious Education
Aims of Religious Education
Our aims for teaching and learning in Religious Education as a Catholic school promote our vision and purpose for all children, guiding them to learn and grow with us as they become the next generation of Catholics in the wider world.
These aims include:
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To present engagingly a comprehensive content which is the basis of knowledge and under- standing of the Catholic faith;
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To enable pupils continually to deepen their religious and theological understanding and be able to communicate this effectively;
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To present an authentic vision of the Church’s moral and social teaching so that pupils can make a critique of the underlying trends in contemporary culture and society;
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To raise pupils’ awareness of the faith and traditions of other religious communities in order to respect and understand them;
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To develop the critical faculties of pupils so that they can relate their Catholic faith to daily life;
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To stimulate pupils’ imagination and provoke a desire for personal meaning as revealed in the truth of the Catholic faith;
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To enable pupils to relate the knowledge gained through Religious Education to their under- standing of other subjects in the curriculum;
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To bring clarity to the relationship between faith and life, and between faith and culture.
The outcome of excellent Religious Education is religiously literate and engaged young people who have the knowledge, understanding and skills – appropriate to their age and capacity – to reflect spiritually, and think ethically and theologically, and who are aware of the demands of religious commitment in everyday life.
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