Publicity

I learn new things about God and different religions so you know how to respect people.

I feel safe asking challenging questions.

This is the one subject that helps me in other subjects – for example analysis in History.

I liked it when we get creative. I liked when we wrote on leaves our wishes, what we wish for, and what we might like to wash away from the world. I like learning things about God.

We used the RE mark as a tool for our department development plan. In a time where departments are largely judged by outcomes our ‘department development meetings’ have now been re-named ‘department attainment meetings.’ While we recognise the importance of attainment – indeed the RE department at the Ifracombe Academy boasted the best GCSE results in the school and significantly above the national average – we recognise that there are limitations to examination and results cannot tell the whole story. There are always areas for development. The structure of the RE quality mark proved to be a useful tool for development. We worked through it together as a team. For the most part it was an encouragement. Lots of ‘oh yes…we do that…’ as well as suggested areas for development. This document continues to be a point of reference and is useful for setting targets for staff appraisals.

RE starts things and we think ‘this is fantastic’ lets take this across the school!