Through the study of Religious Education and Worldviews, students will know and understand that every person has or occupies a worldview, whether religious or non- religious, and this fundamentally shapes the way in which they engage in and with the world around them. Students will understand that religion can be understood as a distinct category of worldview.

They will know and understand that worldviews are rooted in a time and a place, and that context affects worldviews. Students will critically engage with the ways in which context affects engagement in and with their own and other worldviews.  Students will also critically engage with core questions of meaning, purpose, identity and belonging from the perspectives of their own and others’ worldviews.

Students will know and understand that worldviews shape human values, morality and ethical actions. They will critically reflect on their own values, morality and ethical actions in order to understand how their personal worldview has influenced this.  Students will know and understand that worldviews powerfully shape human engagement in the world, including relationships with self, other, the natural world and the ‘beyond’.  Students will critically engage with the ways in which worldviews, including their own, exert positive and negative influences.

Finally, students will know and understand that scholars of religious and non-religious worldviews ask questions about ways of believing, living and thinking [theology, human/social sciences, philosophy]. They will understand that scholars use specific methods, tools and skills to help them answer these questions and that there is a need to use these appropriately.

Right of withdrawal
In law, parents/carers have the right to withdraw their child(ren) from collective acts of religious worship and/or RE lessons. Please click on the link below to read the Priory Trust's guidance for families.

Religious Education/Worldviews withdrawal guidance

Please click on the link below to see a Curriculum Overview of Key Stages 3, 4 and 5.  This details the goals for each key stage, what students will be learning in lessons and an articulation of the wider curriculum.