Our new Religious Education Directory – To Know You More Clearly needs to be in place in our school by September 2025

Titled To Know You More Clearly and published by the CES, the directory sets out the purpose of RE from Early Years Foundation Stage to Year 9 and features a programme of study with a model curriculum, corresponding to the six half-terms of the school year.

Based on the constitutions of the Second Vatican Council and rooted in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the objective of the curriculum is to be religiously literate and engaged young people, with the knowledge, understanding and skills to reflect spiritually, think ethically and theologically, and recognise the demands of religious commitment in everyday life.

This new curriculum will transform our Religious Education lessons and support us to develop Disciples of Christ.

The scheme is divided into 6 branches, one for each half term, with all year groups following the same branch. 

Autumn Term

Branch 1 - Creation and Covenant

Branch 2 - Prophecy and Promise

Spring Term

Branch 3 - Galilee to Jerusalem

Branch 4 - Desert to Garden

Summer Term

Branch 5 - To the ends of the Earth

Branch 6 - Dialogue and Encounter