Intent: Religious Studies at Brimsham encourages aspirational students to develop enquiring insights into six major world religions.  They respectfully consider religious responses to real life scenarios by using and developing their skills of empathy, understanding reflection, as well as analysis and evaluation. Our curriculum equips students with religious literacy to support them in navigating and respecting a multi-cultural and pluralistic world. Students are challenged to question their own beliefs and encouraged to question what is ethical in the world.  Through independent learning, they identify the responsibility of the impact that they can have on the world around them.

Mr M Valentine
Head of Humanities
mvalentine@brimsham.com

• Curriculum
• Principles of reading in: Religious Studies

While education policy changes, the legal requirement for RE for all registered pupils remains unchanged. RE is an entitlement for all pupils, unless they have been withdrawn by their parents from some or all of the RE curriculum. Right of withdrawal: this was first granted when religious education was religious instruction and carried with it the connotation of induction into the Christian faith. RE has been very different from this for some time. It is inclusive and wide-ranging, exploring a range of religious and non-religious worldviews. However, in the UK, parents still have the right to withdraw their children from RE on the grounds that they wish to provide their own religious education. (School Standards and Framework Act 1998 S71 (3)).