Religion and World Views

Religion and World Views

Managers: Miss Strachan and Mrs Milton

Email:straj002@mastacademy.co.uk and miltn006@mastacademy.co.uk

All Saints school is distinctive in character as a Church of England Primary School. The work in both Religious Education and Collective Worship emphasises the Christian way of life and promotes Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural development. Pupils recite the school vision daily, they live the school vision daily and the school vision underpins all decision making and school development. Our full school vision is:

Drawing on the teachings of Isaiah to show faith and resilience in challenging times, our primary school provides learning for 21^st century living, hope for social, moral, spiritual and cultural radiance and encourages everyone to flourish; to work hard and be the best that they can be. It celebrates the uniqueness and diversity of each person within our community and incorporates an acronym of our school values upon which all life within our school is built: Achievement, Respect, Inclusion, Support and Enjoyment.

“Our All Saints family shall ARISE and shine

for the light of The Lord is upon us”

All stakeholders of the school articulate the vision through its final sentence.

Intent

At All Saints, the RWV curriculum runs central to our daily practises as a community, but also through the provision of an ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum that meets the contextual needs of our setting.

Through our RWV curriculum, all members of the All Saints family are provided the opportunity to engage in:

A well-established, creative curriculum that can be enjoyed that emphasises the social, moral, spiritual and cultural development of all pupils.
A progressive curriculum that is built upon each year providing both knowledge and skills development so all children can achieve well.
A curriculum that cements our school values of achieve, respect, include, support and enjoy (ARISE)
Opportunities to learn about the wider world for their own personal development and mental wellbeing.

Implementation

The RWV curriculum at All Saints is implemented through use of resources from Rochester Diocese. This base provides:

In-depth analysis of Christianity beyond just knowledge, but opportunities for personal and spiritual development.
Creation, the fall, incarnation, the gospels, the Kingdom of God and Salvation to be studied and revisited across their time with us in school; widening their understanding of critical events but most significantly, making connections between faith, action and forming their own moral groundings.
Exploration of other faiths beyond Christianity fostering the acceptance we reiterate through our school values, whilst preparing them for life in 21^st century Britain.
Challenge for pupils to make connections between their prior learning and past units ensuring they are forming wholesome opinions based on real world factors.
Rigorous assessments at the end of each lesson identifying whether they have attained the core focus of the lesson, their understanding and participation in critical discussions.
Opportunities for pupils to evaluate and analyse the behaviours and attitudes of those of different faiths and appraise their impact in the modern world for the personal development of each individual pupil.
Religious Education as a subject is taught discretely at our school to every class every week

Impact

As children progress through the RWV curriculum at All Saints, they become:

Critical thinkers who enjoy voicing their opinions on philosophical questions using the theological groundings they have developed here.
Confident leading discourse on the diverse experiences of those around them evidenced through their response to challenge work.
Experts of our local community and inclusive towards whoever they encounter in the wider world.
Reflective of their own place in the world and their ability to achieve
Supportive and respectful members of our society; able to attain if not exceed national statistics, as they enter 21^st Century Britain.

Through all of the above, pupils develop an awareness of and respect for the beliefs and feelings of those within the school and wider community.

We visit our local Church (St Paul with All Saints, Chatham) across the school year for events such as, Dedication Service, Harvest, Christingle, Christmas, Easter and to celebrate our leavers moving on to secondary schools. Parents are invited to join us at these services to celebrate and worship together. The children also attend festivals at Rochester Cathedral throughout the school year and they visit other places of worship as part of their RWV learning.

Weekly after school club

Every Friday from 3.15-4.15 we hold an extra curricular RWV club all year round called Kingsquad. During these sessions the children engage in fun activities to help them learn Biblical stories and commit verse to memory. If you want a place at this club 0 you need to sign up quickly because they go fast!

Challenge work in RWV

In every RE lesson that we deliver we include challenges as a matter of course. On Thursday mornings across the school we engage in higher order thinking with our weekly Thunk topic that encourages children to justify the opinions they hold about an issue and to disagree well. Each term the children are taught by the pupil group of global neighbours about an issue of social injustice and the children devise ways of overcoming this divide and try to strive to achieve more equality. Our children are regularly called upon in class to compare and contrast the practises and beliefs of different faiths - they love a challenge to extend their thinking beyond the norm!

Ideas for more RWV fun at home

If you wish to participate in some RE activities with your child at home visit the websites below:

ministry-to-children.com/kids-sunday-school-games/#gsc.tab=0

christiananswers.net/kids/menu-act.html

www.teachingexpertise.com/classroom-ideas/bible-games-and-activities-for-kids/

childrensministry.com/indoor-sunday-school-games/

Key Documentation - Sept 2025

Skills Progression Curriculum