RE is essential for learning, it helps us become broad-minded about life, rather than staying closed minded.
RE provides space in the curriculum where learners and their teachers can explore the important ideas about what it means to be human and to learn about religion and worldviews.
RE is full of the big questions of meaning and purpose, how we celebrate and how we decide what is right and wrong. The REQM team enjoys working with schools and pupils finding out what they enjoy about religious education and what could make it even better.
The RE Quality Mark has been managed by the RE Council of England and Wales since 2015.
Where RE is well taught it gives pupils and students the chances to think about, reflect and respond to matters of faith, belief and values through the study of religion and worldviews. Pupils say RE opens their eyes to how others see the world and gives them the chance to express their insights about how we respond to the big questions of being human.
RE is essential for learning, it helps us become broad-minded about life, rather than staying closed minded.
I’ve learned more in RE than any other subject, especially about things that matter like ethical issues.
In RE I get a sense of being with everyone else in the class in a way that doesn’t happen in other lessons.
Work is often based around ‘Questions of Wonder’ which are introduced at the start of a topic and returned to on a regular basis as well as when the topic is being completed. This has led to some very interesting questions from pupils, leading on to interesting discussion work. Two in particular were recorded in the lesson observation notes I was shown. ‘Who made God?’ and ‘I don’t know how God went into an incarnation and stayed as normal God.’
I learn new things about God and different religions so you know how to respect people.
RE is challenging- in a good way!
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