Religious Education
RE Curriculum
The Religious Education Directory (RED), titled To Know You More Clearly, is a required guide for Catholic schools in England and Wales
The New RE Directory:
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Implementation: Developed by the Catholic Education Service, this framework will be fully used in Catholic schools by 2025
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Core Structure: The lessons are built around six "branches" or themes each year
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Purpose: The goal is to help young people become "religiously literate" so they can talk confidently about faith, ethics, and spiritual ideas
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Approach: It focuses on a "knowledge-rich" style that blends Catholic teaching with deep questioning and learning about other religions
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Time Allocation: The directory confirms that 10% of school time must be dedicated to RE in Catholic schools
Diocesan Resources
Visit the Diocese of Middlesbrough's website to discover more about religious education within our Diocesan primary schools:
Diocese of Middlesbrough - Primary Religious Education
'Life to the Full'
Relationship and Health Education (RHE) became statutory for all Primary Schools from September 2020.
The Life to the Full programme is the RHE scheme that we use at St Thomas More and is based on the structure of ‘A Model Catholic RSE Curriculum’ by the Catholic Education Service. This model curriculum was highlighted as a work of good practice by the Department for Education so we are confident that the programme supports the growth and development of your child.
Life to the Full is much more than a series of lessons. It is an entire platform of creative resources that engage, inform and inspire our children and, indeed, you as parents. It includes interactive video content, story-based activities, employing a wide range of teaching tools, original worship music and an accompanying programme of classroom prayers.
Life to the Full offers an Relationships & Sex Education Policy so that you, as parent and carers, can engage with the teaching and deepen the experience for your child:
School Username: st-thomas-more-hu4
School Password: hanover-house-2
This Relationships & Sex Education Policy will help to give you an overview of the structure and content of the programme.
Life to the Full is a means to further develop, support and enrich the partnership between home, school and church so that your child is fully supported.