Religious Education
Statement of Curriculum Intent
At Hartpury C of E Primary School, we aim to ensure that all pupils flourish and live life in its fullness, in line with the 2019 Statement of Entitlement by the Church of England Education Office. Our teaching is in line with the 2025 Gloucestershire RE Syllabus aims:
"The Gloucestershire syllabus 2025 asserts the importance and value of religious education for all pupils, with on-going benefits for an open, articulate and understanding society.
The principal aim for religious education in Gloucestershire is for pupils to understand how worldviews influence people’s lives, including their own, through the study of religious and non-religious worldviews, so that they better understand themselves and the world around them, and become better equipped to contribute to and flourish in society."
The 2025 curriculum has three main aims, for our learners to:
- Understand how religious and non-religious worldviews influence people’s lives.
- Engage with religious and non-religious worldviews in thoughtful and scholarly ways
- Understand themselves, and others, and their personal worldviews better
Statement of Curriculum Implementation
We implement RE at Hartpury C of E Primary School in the following ways:
- Children are taught in mixed age classes of two-year groups. With a two year rolling programme, as detailed in our RE Scheme of Work (except for Reception who follow a one year plan).
- We use the Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education in Gloucestershire as the basis for our curriculum. We are currently implementing the 2025 curriculum and transitioning as a school across the 2025-2026 school year.
- Understanding Christianity is used as a key resource for the teaching of Christianity.
The main aim for the new syllabus is incorporating a religion and worldviews approach, helping pupils to understand:
- "a variety of responses to and understandings of the world as presented by religious and non-religious worldviews
- relationships between beliefs, teachings, forms of expression within organised worldviews, and the lived experience of adherent
- questions of meaning, purpose and truth, including about ultimate reality, and how these questions may be posed, addressed, understood, evaluated and responded to differently within worldviews and across disciplines
- the concepts, language and ways of knowing that help organise and make sense of religion and worldviews
- how to deploy a range of different tools and methods used to investigate religious and non-religious worldviews
- how their own personal worldview shapes their encounters with and responses to the world, and how their context, experiences and study can shape their personal worldview."
- A wide range of other resources are available for the teaching of RE, including resource boxes for each of the major religions studied, a set of Good News Bibles and a range of books, DVDs and online resources.
- In EYFS and KS1 RE is taught for 36 hours per year. In KS2 it is taught for 45 hours a year.
Statement of Curriculum Impact
Children’s ongoing progress is monitored carefully by teachers and the RE lead. This provides a very clear picture of each child’s strengths and weaknesses and enables teachers to put in additional support or extra challenge where necessary.
A programme of monitoring is in place to inform senior and subject leaders of consistency and progression in learning. This includes:
- Professional discussion
- Work scrutiny
- Pupil Conferencing
- Lesson Observations
Published November 2025
Review Date September 2026
