Religious Education

From September 2025 we will be implementing the

Religious Education Directory

The Religious Education Directory – To Know You More Clearly is published by the Catholic Education Service. The directory sets out the purpose of Religious Education from Early Years Foundation Stage to Year 9 and features a programme of study with a model curriculum, corresponding to the six half-terms of the school year.

Based on the constitutions of the Second Vatican Council and rooted in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the objective of the curriculum is to religiously literate and engage young people, with the knowledge, understanding and skills to reflect spiritually, think ethically and theologically, and recognise the demands of religious commitment in everyday life.

They will be taught Religious Education through six branches of study.

Autumn Term

Branch 1: Creation and Covenant

Branch 2: Prophecy and Promise

Spring Term

Branch 3: Galilee to Jerusalem

Branch 4: Desert to garden

Summer Term

Branch 5: To the ends of the earth

Branch 6: Dialogue and encounter