Religious Education

RE involves the exploration of fundamental questions concerning human experience and spirituality. At Wellsprings, we use the Somerset Local Authority's Agreed Syllabus of Religious Education and their Scheme of Work as the basis of our planning and delivery of RE.

RE at Wellsprings aims to enable pupils of whatever ability and level of development to:

• acquire and develop knowledge and understanding of principal world faiths practiced in Great Britain. These include Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, each of which is represented in Somerset.

• develop an understanding of the influence of beliefs, values and traditions on individuals, communities, societies and cultures, including the local community.

• develop the ability to make reasoned and informed judgements about religious and moral issues with reference to the teachings of the principal religions;

• enhance their own spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

• recognise the right of people to hold different beliefs within an ethnically and socially diverse society.