Religious Education develops many valuable and transferrable skills for our students at Sheffield Springs Academy.
Through studying RE, students will be able to understand how multi-faith, multicultural and secular societies, much like their own in Sheffield and the UK overall, function. RE enables students to understand and show respect for the beliefs and teachings behind the diverse views and practices of individuals and societies. RE allows students to engage in debates in such a way that recognises the right of others to hold different views, which might challenge and change your own personal knowledge, whilst still having the informed conviction to decide on your own viewpoint. Students begin to figure out how the substantive knowledge they learn about other worldviews fits in with their own worldview.
The subject develops clear communication skills in both discussion tasks and in extended writing tasks. Students will develop their ability to construct well-informed and reasoned arguments that can be justified, considering these arguments through the theological, historical, philosophical, or human/social science lenses. RE promotes the use of critical thinking skills to interrogate accepted norms and media output; students begin to question and have a deeper curiosity about the world around them.
The curriculum is thematically sequenced; in each year, students consider the origin of some of the world’s major religious or non-religious worldviews, the identity of these worldviews and what makes them unique and develop their connectivity through understanding people who follow different faiths. RE is a subject in which all our students at Sheffield Springs Academy can academically and personally flourish.