Religious Education
Religious Education is at the centre of our curriculum. In our school we use God Matters and the units of work written by Clifton Diocese. We follow guidelines set by the Diocese of Clifton, which includes 10% of the timetable each week devoted to the Religious Education curriculum.
We teach RE in year groups as follows:
EYFS - Mrs Burden
Year 1 - Mrs Elvish
Year 2 - Mrs Loftus
Year 3 - Mrs Browne
Year 4 - Mrs Woodcock
Year 5 - Mrs Brannagan Fuller
Year 6 - Mrs Williams
The RE Curriculum units are as follows:
Creation, Prayers Saints and Feasts, Advent, Christmas, Revelation, Lent,
Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost and Sacraments.
Our RE Curriculum incorporates other faith teaching during planned faith weeks. During these weeks the class will focus on a faith during their writing, guided reading, RE and topic sessions. Looking at the beliefs, festivals and celebrations, special objects and clothing as well as stories from that faith. This year our Faith weeks will focus on Judaism and Hinduism.
Children are taught to respect and value the beliefs of others in a non-judgemental environment. We aim for children to develop their religious and moral understanding to sustain them through later life and to help them develop an understanding of Christian beliefs and the faiths of others.
Relationships, Sex and Health Education
The program we use for Relationship, Sex and Health Education Programme is a scheme approved by the Diocese called Journey in Love. We use this as well as some materials from Jigsaw, the PSHE scheme we follow, ensuring this is taught inline with Christian beliefs and values.
Please refer to the RSHE policy for more information.
Please see our Jigsaw Subject Overview for more detail on our PSHE programme.
We welcome Fr Francis to Our Lady's.
The new Priest for St Luke and St Teresa's Church.
Crowning of Mary 2022
Catholic Social Teaching
The underlying insight is that everyone has the right and responsibility to live in our world constructively, not destructively, and to ensure that we leave it in a better state than when we entered it. At the core of Catholic Social Teaching are a number of key concepts and principles.
At Our Lady's we focus on the following Catholic Social Teaching Principles:-
Human Dignity, Participation, Option for the Poor, Promoting Peace, The Common Good and Solidarity. Stewardship is one of our School Values.
Two children from each class are chosen fortnightly to receive a Catholic Social Teaching award which is presented in the Celebration Assembly. Recognition of the award is shared on our Catholic Social Teaching display board.
Hall Displays
Each class focussed on prayer and reflection. They used their ideas to create a display where children were given the option to write prayers, drawer prayers or give ideas of where people could be calm.
Faith Week
In memory of Fr. Louis, rest in peace. You are missed.