At St. Clement’s, we are committed to creating a Christ-centred learning community where every child is nurtured to believe, achieve, and flourish as a confident, life-long learner.
“Growing together in Faith, Love, and Learning”

Religious Education (RE) is central to our curriculum and school life at St Clement's. Our core intent in teaching Religious Education is to help our pupils to grow together in faith, love and learning. We want our children to develop knowledge, understanding, the ability to reflect and analyse, as well as opportunities for reflection and spiritual encounter. Within our Catholic community, we aim to provide a rich variety of experiences that nurture both a strong sense of belonging and each child’s individual journey of faith.

Through our curriculum, collective worship, school Masses, and celebrations, we encourage our children to be active participants in RE. These experiences help them recognise their value as a unique individual and a child of God, and feel a true sense of belonging within our school family.

In line with the stipulation of the Bishop's Conference of England and Wales, the school spends 10% of the teaching week on Religious Education.

Religious Education 

At St Clement's we use the diocesan approved scheme "Day By Day" which presents the teaching of religious education in a sequential and progressive form. 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 for each half-term which are the same in each year. 

Curriculum branches:

• 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, 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 the early Church.
• Summer 2 – Dialogue and Encounter – Learn how Christians work together with people of different religious backgrounds, building an understanding that all people work towards a common good and should respect all humanity.

In terms of assessment, the RE curriculum requires schools to assess children against the end of phase statements. Children are assessed as meeting or not meeting the expected outcomes. The language of ‘working at greater depth’ in not used in the assessment of the RE curriculum. 

Multifaith Programme

When studying Branch Six: Dialogue and Encounter, children have an opportunity to learn about other faiths. Children of other faiths in the school have the opportunity to share their religion with their peers and all children are able to have an understanding of what life is like for a child of another faith by the time they leave us.

Right to withdraw pupils from all or part of RE

Please click here for guidance on the right of withdrawal from religious education and/or collective worship in schools in England.