RE

Religious Education is very important in Church of England schools.

RE has a high profile within the curriculum at Bishop Wilson and is an intrinsic part of the delivery of our school’s Christian Vision in enabling all pupils to flourish.  Pupils develop a wide range of skills including enquiry, analysis, interpretation, evaluation and reflection.  RE provides pupils with a safe space to explore their own religious, spiritual and philosophical ways of seeing, living and thinking, believing and belonging.  It allows pupils to gain knowledge and understanding of a range of religions and worldviews appreciating diversity, continuity and change through the study of different world faiths i.e. Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism.  It is important that pupils view Christianity as a diverse, global living faith through exploration of core beliefs which critically engage with biblical text.  RE units are concept driven.  

RE follows a 2 year year rolling programme (with additional shadow years to allow for class structure changes) which incorporates units from Questful RE (Recommended for RE by the Chester Diocese); elements of Understanding Christianity units and some supplementary materials. This rolling programme is available to view at the bottom of this page. Each unit/concept begins with a 'Big Question'.  This is addressed again at the end of the topic to show progression in knowledge and understanding of the unit.  

More details are available at questful-re.org.uk and understandingchristianity.org.uk and in the policy below.