RE
Subject Leader – Mrs Brennan
Our Mission Statement:
'Together in God’s family, we grow in faith, knowledge & love to reach our full potential, and to become the people that we are created to be.'
At St. Mary’s and St. Benedict’s we use the ‘Magister Resource’ Religious Education programme to teach RE throughout our school. Religious Education is taught through the process of Understand, Discern and Respond. This follows the six branches which invites pupils to learn about an aspect of Revelation, Scripture, life in Christ, and life in Church, and to discern what their learning means academically and experientially enabling them to see, judge, and to act through a deeper knowledge of the Christian faith.
The six branches are: Creation and Covenant, Prophecy and Promise, Galilee to Jerusalem, Desert to Garden, To the Ends of the Earth and Dialogue and Encounter. The pattern is outlined in the Religious Education Directory 2023, ‘To Know You More Clearly’.
The ‘Magister’ curriculum will also be supported by:
- Children engaging in mass by preparing and presenting readings in masses in church and school.
- Children preparing and joining in with collective worships in class.
- Children preparing and presenting assemblies linked to the Gospel of the week.
- Children’s engagement with the chaplaincy team who present to each class regularly.
- Children’s involvement in various aspects of community life in the parish such as Pentecost Day, Advent celebrations and Easter assemblies.
Religious Education in our School
Collective Worship
Collective Worship is an essential part of the daily life of our school. All acts of prayer in school will: Give glory to God, be a quality activity fundamental to the life of the school and its Catholic character, enable pupils to develop skills so that they can prepare, organise and lead prayer times and give pupils positive liturgical experiences, appropriate to their age.
Our Chaplaincy Team
Our Chaplaincy Team work on several school and parish wide projects to support everyone in our community to live by The Gospel Values. When children begin in Year 5 they can become part of our Chaplaincy team and support others in their spiritual journey.
Our Chaplaincy team are excellent Catholic role models, promoting friendship, love and respect in school and in the wider community. They help us live by our school mission statement of
'With Jesus, we learn as a joyful family and flourish to be the best that we can be'.
Our Chaplaincy Team holds events with the Parish: collective worships, a Rosary Lunch and coffee mornings help raise money for charities and RE resources in school. With the money raised, we have managed to buy collective worship resources for each class along with class bibles.
Our Chaplaincy Team will undertake the following activities during the year:
- Planning and presenting collective worship to the younger children
- Actively participating in assemblies
- Planning and presenting in class and whole school masses
- Being involved in our church liturgical year, including special seasons such as Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter.
- Planning parish events such as Rosary lunches, parish coffee mornings and collective worships.
- Presenting whole school events/ initiatives such as Pentecost Day or charitable events such as CAFOD.
British Values
At St Mary and St Benedict’s Catholic Primary School, we reinforce British values in the following ways:
As a Catholic School we actively promote values, virtues and ethics that shape our pupils' character and moral perspective, through the teachings of the Church. We are confident that our continued focus on the Gospel Values will give our pupils the necessary awareness of what it means to be a good citizen in Britain today and embed in them the building blocks of a future successful and productive life. We believe through the teaching of our school curriculum, we promote tolerance, acceptance, peace, being non-judgmental, humility, justice, the dignity of each human being, forgiveness, generosity, fairness, discipline and hope.
You can find out more about how we promote British Values here.
SEND Pupils
For further information on how we cater for the needs of SEND pupils, please visit our SEND page and refer to our SEND policy.