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Diocese of Canterbury Units of work provided as support

toREact Kent Agreed Syllabus 2006

INTRODUCTION

This CD contains

A model overview

42 units of work

Additional units of work for voluntary aided schools (who mayadapt the syllabus with the agreement of their governing body)

Grids for assessing pupils – one approach to this

Guidelines on writing an RE policy

Guidelines for reviewing your prospectus

The units must be used in conjunction with the Kent Agreed Syllabus,whose requirements for voluntary controlled and foundation schoolsthey meet.

Units designed for Key Stage 1 can be taught as a rolling programmefor Years 1 and 2, those for Key Stage 2 can be taught as a rolling

programme for Years 3 and 4 (Lower KS2) and Years 5 and 6 (UpperKS2). If units are moved beyond those parameters, then they must beadapted accordingly. It is recommended that schools adapt any unitswhich are not entirely suitable for their particular school situation andpupil intake.

COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

Community schools may wish to consider how they might use or adaptthese units. However they should bear in mind that this scheme usesthe flexibility in the syllabus to teach one less unit on Hinduism at KeyStage 1 and one less on Islam and Judaism at Key Stage 2, in order to

teach more Christianity. This is because Christianity is regarded as the‘religious community with a significant local presence’ in churchschools

They must also be aware that a number of the units on Christianityreflect the distinctive Christian character of a Church of Englandprimary school. Adaptations which reflect the non-church character of schools should be made.



MODEL OVERVIEW

This shows how the requirements of the Kent Agreed Syllabus can beput together into a scheme of work for a primary school. It is asystematic model (religion by religion) rather than a thematic or‘mixed’ model.

UNITS OF WORK

There are 40 units of work for Foundation to Year 6. It isrecommended that the materials produced by the County are used todeliver the Year 6 Sikhism transition unit. When these are published,the Diocese may give some additional guidance based upon them.

ADDITIONAL UNITS These are designed for Voluntary Aided Church Schools who may wishto teach some additional units of Christianity. The RE curriculum inVoluntary Aided schools is agreed by the Governing Body, so this is anoption for these VA church schools.

SCHOOL PROSPECTUS

This should be reviewed in order to reflect the implementation of REact. This is a suggested form of words which would explain clearlythe place of RE in the school curriculum of a church school

RE POLICY There are suggested model policies for church schools which relate tothe Diocesan units of work. Please ensure that the policy for yourschool reflects your particular school situation when adapting themodel policies or writing your own. There is also some guidance inSection 4 of the non-statutory guidance of REact.

MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Sections 4 and Appendix 1 in the non-statutory guidance of REact arevery helpful and subject leaders are advised to make the best possibleuse of these. The self-evaluation Toolkit for SIAS (Section 48)

inspection which is carried outin church schools is also included. This is recommended for bothVoluntary Controlled and Voluntary Aided church schools (although REis inspected by OfSTED in a VC school and by SIAS in a VA school).

ASSESSMENT

Section 3 in the non-statutory guidance of REact is very helpful. Thisincludes the ‘I can’ statements which form an important part of the



units of work. The statutory level descriptions (from which the ‘I can’statements were written) can be found in the Kent Agreed Syllabus onp 58-60. On this CD, there are some grids to help both pupils andteachers to carry out assessment and keep a record of this.

RE FOCUS WEEK This is one idea developed by one of the church schools in CanterburyDiocese. A focus week is an ideal way to further enrich and embed theRE which pupils study as a part of the school curriculum. This ideamay provide a stimulus for your thoughts or a basis for an RE FocusWeek or day of your own.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the following people in particular for their practical help and encouragement in the production of this resource:

Jean Ireland Jill RushtonRupert Bristow Jan ThompsonLiz Bird

together with many others who have made constructive suggestions

as the resource has taken shape.

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