Religous Education

The religious education curriculum has been designed in line with the locally agreed syllabus of Blackburn and Darwen along with the latest publication ‘Developing a Religion and Worldviews Approach in Religious Education in England’ from the religious education council. By following an enquiry-based approach to learning students gain an understanding of how worldviews work in human experience, including a student’s own, so that they can understand the complex world around them.

The aim of the curriculum ensures that students are exposed to collectively enough substantive and disciplinary knowledge to allow them to not only make sense of the complex world around them but internally reflect on the impact these views have on them. Before this can be achieved students need to understand how to study the subject. This means they will need exposing to both an understanding of worldviews and the lenses used to study RE so that students can fully explore our modern world and the discourse that has shaped it.

The right to withdraw.

In accordance with UK law, parents can withdraw their child from Religious Education in school to provide their own provision of the subject. All requests of this nature should be sent to Mr Hodgkinson, Head of Humanities, jake.hodgkinson@darwenvale.com.