Subject definition:

Religious Education (RE) helps us learn about different beliefs, traditions, and ways people live all around the world. It’s not about telling us what to believe—it’s about helping us understand others, ask big questions, and think about what matters to us.

Our Religious Education programme follows the Hampshire Agreed Syllabus, Living Difference IV.  Through opportunities to appreciate different ideas, beliefs and cultures, children are encouraged to develop responsibility, co-operation, self-discipline and tolerance.  

Our school community has a large range of different cultures and faiths, and we welcome opportunities to learn about these from the children. We also celebrate festivals and important days from other faiths and cultures, such as Diwali, Eid, Christmas, Chinese New Year and Easter.

We have a daily act of worship, which is non-denominational. Stories, poems, artwork, music and stories from the Old and New Testament are used to provoke children to reflect and develop their own thinking.

At North Farnborough Infant School we want all children to:

• Talk about their own responses to their experiences of the concepts explored.
• Talk about how their responses relate to their own lives and the lives of other people.
• Describe what has been taught about the concept in relation to the religion studied
• Discuss something of value in the concepts studied in relation to the religion studied, their lives and the lives of other people.

Parents/Carers have the right to withdraw their child from all or part of RE lessons. Please contact the school office to discuss this further.

Please click here for a link to the guidance for Religious Education in English schools.