St Benedict's Catholic Primary School

Religious Education is at the core of our curriculum at St Benedict's Catholic Primary School. Our curriculum complies with the Requirements of the Bishops of England and Wales and has been designed in line with the new Religious Education Directory (To Know You More Clearly).

 With support from the Liverpool Archdiocese, we introduced the new Religious Education Directory (RED) 'To know you more Clearly' in Reception and Year 1/2 in 2023/24. This school year (2024) we have rolled out across all year groups. The new RED will be compulsory in all Catholic schools in all classes by September 2026.

  This new directory seeks to present the teaching of religious education in a sequential and progressive form, rooted in the liturgical year. The framework has four structural elements:

 •Knowledge lenses which indicate what should be known by the end of each age phase. These are split into hear, believe, live and celebrate.

 •The ‘ways of knowing’ are the skills which develop as the children progress through their curriculum journey. These are split into understand, discern and respond. 

 •Expected outcomes are set for each age phase and indicate what pupils are expected to know, remember and be able to do.

 •Curriculum branches are the way the programme of study presents its model curriculum. There are six half term branches which are the same in each year group:

 Autumn 1- Creation and Covenant - Encounter the God who creates and calls all people with a focus on the accounts of Creation.

 Autumn 2- Prophecy and Promise - Explore the expectant waiting for the Messiah through the Advent season.

 Spring 1- Galilee to Jerusalem - Experience the ministry of Jesus and the Word of God. They will learn through parables, encounters, miracles and teachings.

 Spring 2- Desert to Garden - Study the season of Lent and its culmination in the events of Holy Week.

 Summer 1- To the ends of the Earth - Study the events that flowed from the Resurrection and Ascension in the coming of the Holy Spirit and the work of the apostles and early Church.

 Summer 2- Dialogue and Encounter - Learn how Christians work together with people of different religious backgrounds, building an understand that all people work towards a common good and should respect all humanity.