Our Endeavour Religious Education Vision

‘R.E is like an iceberg. As you unpack ideas, you come to understand deeper meaning.’

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Personal Empowerment

At Endeavour, we design our curriculum in ways that lead to children being able to actively participate in their lives. In RE, by learning the knowledge and concepts that we have chosen to learn in detail, children learn to think critically, which prepares them to be active participants in their own lives. This prepares them to be active participants in their own lives. For example, by repeatedly returning to the Golden Threads of ‘community’, ‘belonging’, ‘special’ and ‘love’ in increasingly complex ways develops transferable critical thinking. This critical thinking prepares children to make decisions about their lives and to access learning about any area of RE with success in Secondary School. 

Furthermore, RE is a crucial component of our curriculum because it helps us to pass on the best that has been thought and known and to ensure that our children leave Primary School with an expected amount of knowledge about the world. 

Cultural Transmission

At Endeavour, we design our curriculum in a way that ensures that we pass on the best that has been thought and known. In RE, by developing fluency in the knowledge that we have identified should be developed fluently, we give our children important knowledge that empowers them to thrive. For example, we want our children to develop fluency in the following areas:

• Golden Thread Concepts:
  • ‘community’
  • ‘belonging’
  • ‘special’
  • ‘love’
• Key components of knowledge about each belief system:
  • key beliefs
  • special books
  • places of worship and places of interest
  • key events
• Chosen religions and worldviews:
  • Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Judaism
  • Buddhism
  • Islam
  • Sikh Faith
  • Humanism
• Cycle of Enquiry

As well as giving children empowering knowledge that allows children to participate in their own lives and to enter society with an expected amount of knowledge, RE also prepares children for citizenship.

Preparation for Citizenship

At Endeavour, we design our curriculum in a way that prepares children to make informed decisions as members of a democratic society. In RE, by developing fluent knowledge of the Golden Threads of ‘community’, ‘belonging’, ‘special’ and ‘love’, we prepare our children to make informed decisions. For example, we know that children who can identify ‘love’ in communities that do not immediately look like their own, will be more able to participate in democratic debate free from prejudice. Furthermore, we know that children who have developed fluent knowledge of the concept of ‘belonging’ will be better motivated to take shared ownership of decisions being made about their community.

In addition to empowering children to participate in their lives, giving an expected amount of knowledge and preparing children to make informed decisions, the RE curriculum prepares children to thrive in the workplace.

Preparation for Work

At Endeavour, we design our curriculum in a way that prepares children for work. In RE, by developing fluent knowledge of the Golden Threads of ‘community’, ‘belonging’, ‘special’ and ‘love’, we prepare our children to succeed at work. We know that RE develops transferable skills and the ability to appreciate the differences and recognise the similarities in different belief systems, which prepares our children to work in modern Britain.

When designing our curriculum, we ensure that we select knowledge and structure its implementation in ways that lead to personal empowerment, cultural transmission, preparation for citizenship and preparation for work. However, we also acknowledge that there exists the injustice of disadvantage and so we shape our curriculum around the core aim of tackling disadvantage.