Religious Education

Our Intent Statement

At Baxenden St John’s CE Primary School we engage pupils to learn through opportunities to investigate beliefs and values, express ideas, interpret meanings, explore concepts and reflect.  This will ensure that they can develop the understanding and skills needed to develop self-awareness, respect for all, open-mindedness and appreciation and wonder of our Christian Faith and the wider world.

As a Church School we are committed to the Christian Faith and Values. Our vision embodies our belief that every child has the right to a curriculum which allows and promotes opportunities for them to explore and develop their own values and beliefs and allow them to become spiritually aware of the Christian Faith and the faith of others.

The Christian Values, given to us by Christ, are promoted throughout our curriculum and are weaved throughout the life of the school. We aim for pupils to develop a growth mind-set and a sense of responsibility to challenge themselves beyond the classroom. Within our whole school family of pupils, staff, parents, governors and community, we want everyone to be provided with opportunities to flourish academically, emotionally and spiritually.

Questful R.E. for Home Learning

‘Off the Shelf Picture Posts RE Ideas’ is a set of resources that are designed to be used at home or school and do make reference to the current lockdown situation. The diocese have tried to ensure that anything needed is easily available in the home.

The children can choose any picture they find interesting to look at and discuss. They follow this by reading and exploring a bible story, it’s meaning and impact  through a variety of activities that are of course ‘Questful’! They are suitable for children from Year 1 – year 6. The children can decide which activity suits them best. This hopefully makes the resource all age/family friendly and therefore can be enjoyed by siblings together.

The file is too large to fit on the website, but can be accessed by clicking on the link: Schools Curriculum area of the Resources section

Our R.E. Curriculum

As a church school we work closely with our mother church; St John’s Baxenden and also Blackburn and Diocesan Board of Education.

We follow the syllabus “Questful RE” set out by BDBE which incorporates the Christian Concepts from the Understanding Christianity Syllabus.

The Concepts are; God, Creation, Fall, People of God, Incarnation, Gospel, Salvation and Kingdom of God.

Children are encouraged to develop their own faith through leadership roles within school. These include; worship leaders and prayer leaders.

We also have opportunities for Upper KS2 pupils to attend training led by BDBE to become our head worship leaders, known as “God’s Squad”