‘Woodfield academy is a place where our day to day mission is to ignite a passion to learn and a desire to succeed in an environment that nurtures all.’

It is a place where learners are taught through our curriculum, to make informed choices and to be responsible for their own actions, through the teaching of four core values; Compassion, Respect, Resilience and Responsibility.

Our curriculum shows a clear progression in both knowledge and skills that our pupils will gain at both key stages in RE, but also how its content contributes to the wider school intent and ethos.

The principal aim for RE is:

To engage pupils in systematic enquiry into significant human questions which religions and worldviews address, so that they can develop the understanding and skills needed to appreciate and appraise varied responses to these questions, as well as developing responses of their own.

Beyond this, RE will contribute to ‘the knowledge and skills that our pupils need in order to take advantage of opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life’. The contribution that RE can make to preparing pupils for life in modern Britain will be significant.

Our curriculum consists of a planned sequence of enquiries to make sure pupils build effectively on prior learning and can see the relevance of their investigations. Offering a clear structure for learning: units of work are based around the three strands of: Believing, Expressing and Living.

In KS2, we use a good grounding of systematic study of individual religions to prepare pupils for thematic study in KS3, where they compare religions and explore key ideas from different perspectives to enrich understanding.

We follow the Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education produced by Worcestershire whereby our teaching promotes the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of our students. It reflects the fact that the religious traditions in Great Britain are in the main, Christian whilst taking account of the teaching and practices of other principal religions represented in Great Britain. Our teaching enables pupils to acquire knowledge and understanding of religious beliefs, attitudes, practices and rituals. They will also develop their own beliefs and values. We do not convert or steer pupils towards a particular religious’ belief. They will also be aware that some people have no attachment to religious beliefs and follow secular philosophies.

Driven by our school and British values, the RE curriculum enables our students to understand themselves in relation to others and develop the skills, qualities and attributes they will need to shape them as citizens ready for a prosperous future in a modern Britain or globally.

“Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads as long as we reach the same goal? In reality, there are as many different religions as there are individuals”. Mahatma Ghandi