R.E.

At Ickworth Park, we follow the Suffolk-based scheme ‘The Emmanuel Project’ which links directly with the Suffolk Agreed Syllabus for RE.  The Emmanuel Project is based on a Religion and Worldviews approach. It offers an authentic view of religious and non-religious lives around the world. It starts with people and helps pupils understand that the world is a richly diverse community. The Emmanuel Project ensures RE is balanced, by looking through three different lenses: theology, human social science and philosophy, at an age-appropriate level.

Each half termly unit has a key question with an important concept to explore and uses an enquiry cycle to help pupils to delve deeper. Big Questions allow for comparisons to be made and links to be drawn across different religions and worldviews.  The areas covered include units focused on Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Humanism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism. 

In a half term unit, we will guide the children through well-structured enquiries, which build on particular opportunities under the headings: engage, enquire, explore, evaluate, express and extend.  Learning is developed through an enquiry cycle in which pupils:

• Engage with the key concept of their own lives
• Enquire into an aspect of the religion/worldview which relates to the key concept
• Explore the understanding of the key concept through 3 areas: Narrative Text, Community Practice, Living 
• Evaluate, Express and Extend their learning about the key concept