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Religious Education Directory (RED)

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RE - EYFS to Year 6

Religious Education is at the core of our St Alban's Catholic Primary School curriculum. Our curriculum complies with the requirements of the Bishops of England and Wales and has been designed in line with the new Religious Education Directory (To Know You More Clearly). 

The new RED will be compulsory in all Catholic schools in all classes by September 2026. This new directory seeks to present the teaching of religious education in a sequential and progressive form, rooted in the liturgical year. The framework has four structural elements: Knowledge lenses indicate what should be known by the end of each age phase. These are split into hear, believe, live and celebrate. The ‘ways of knowing’ are the skills which develop as the children progress through their curriculum journey.

These are split into: 

Understand

Discern

Respond

EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 begun to implement the new curriculum in 2024/25 and due to positive feedback from staff and chidlren we decided to push forward our implementation timeframe. As of September 2025, all year groups are being taught RE from the RED. The religious education program in Catholic schools, as outlined in this directory, follows a framework with four key components: knowledge lenses, ways of knowing, expected outcomes, and curriculum branches. The curriculum consists of six branches, each corresponding to one of the six half-terms in the school year. These branches aim to guide pupils on a journey grounded in the story of salvation, focusing on different aspects of Jesus’ life and revisiting them annually to deepen their understanding of His ministry.

There are six half-term branches, which are the same in each year group:

Autumn 1

Creation and Covenant - Encounter the God who creates and calls all people with a focus on the accounts of Creation.

 Autumn 2

Prophecy and Promise - Explore the expectant waiting for the Messiah through the Advent season.

Spring 1

 Galilee to Jerusalem - Experience the ministry of Jesus and the Word of God. They will learn through parables, encounters, miracles and teachings.

Spring 2

Desert to Garden - Study the season of Lent and its culmination in the events of Holy Week.

Summer 1

To the ends of the Earth - Study the events that flowed from the Resurrection and Ascension in the coming of the Holy Spirit and the work of the apostles and early Church.

 Summer 2

Dialogue and Encounter—Learn how Christians work together with people of different religious backgrounds, building an understanding that all people work towards a common good and should respect all humanity.

EYFS

In EYFS, the children produce a large class floor book to present their work, rather than having individual books.

 

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