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Religious Education

Our vision for Religious Education at William Lilley:

Our children develop a knowledge of the wider world.  Children develop a strong appreciation and respect of others beliefs, practices and opinions allowing them to celebrate differences and diversity.  Through religious education at our school, we prioritise a sense of belonging in which children question and express their own beliefs and that of others, sharing their thoughts and ideas in a creative way.

Implementation:

  • Detailed progressive long term plan for RE curriculum
  • Visiting local religious buildings
  • Religious leader assemblies weekly
  • Assemblies plan and link to major events
  • Celebration events – Christian including Easter, Mothers day, Christmas, Divali, Eid, Chinese new year
  • Cultural days and events involving school community
  • Recognise belonging through events such as remembrance
  • Focus on first hand experiences and link with religions within the school
  • Religious hymns and learning songs
  • Invite parents and local community to religious celebrations
  • Promote responsibility through supporting local charities and school council
  • Embedded across EYFS curriculum through topics such as ourselves, life and growth
  • Theme days

Further reading and information:

Please note Parents have the right to withdraw their children from religious education and/or collective worship.  Please contact the school for further information.

Our teaching of Religious Education follows the guidance given in the latest Agreed

The Agreed Syllabus for RE in Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire

2026 - 2031

Religious Education in Nottingham City and County schools contributes dynamically to children and young people’s education in schools, provoking challenging questions about human life, beliefs, communities and ideas. In RE pupils learn from religions and worldviews about different ways of life in local, national and global contexts. They discover, explore and consider many different answers to questions about human identity, meaning and value. They learn to weigh up for themselves the value of wisdom from different communities and traditions, to disagree respectfully, to be reasonable in their responses to religions and worldviews and to respond by expressing insights into their own and others’ lives. They think rigorously, creatively, imaginatively and respectfully about their ideas in relation to religions and worldviews.

The National Curriculum states the legal requirement that: “Every state-funded school must offer a curriculum which is balanced and broadly based, and which:

• Promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society, and

• Prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.” And:

“All state schools... must teach religious education to pupils at every key stage... All schools must publish their curriculum by subject and academic year online”

This new RE Syllabus for Nottingham City and County pupils establishes what shall be taught in RE in Nottingham City and County schools providing teachers with practical support and guidance about how to teach RE effectively.

In the 2026 Nottingham City and County RE Agreed Syllabus RE is described in terms of purpose, aims and programs of study for each age group, like the humanities subjects of the National Curriculum. The Agreed Syllabus also gives clear guidance on RE in the early years and RE for students aged 14 19. As RE is a core subject of the curriculum for all pupils we have followed the ways in which English, Mathematics and Science are described in the National Curriculum. In describing progression in RE, the syllabus pictures how pupils will develop increasing understanding of wide areas of RE subject knowledge, and also how pupils can develop religious literacy, including the skills of:

* investigating religions and worldviews through varied experiences and ways of knowing;

* reflecting on and expressing their own ideas and the ideas of others with increasing creativity and clarity;

* becoming increasingly able to be reasonable in their responses to religions and worldviews.

 

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