Religious Education Directory- To Know You More Clearly

The Religious Education Directory (RED), To Know You More Clearly, introduced by the Catholic Education Service (2023) has replaced the long-standing Come and See programme across Catholic schools, ensuring that Religious Education remains the central focus of education and reflects the Church’s vision for a renewed, rigorous and engaging curriculum.

The new RED consists of six branches taught half-termly: 

• Creation and Covenant 
• Prophecy and Promise
• Galilee to Jerusalem
• Desert to Garden
• To the Ends of the Earth
• Dialogue and Encounter

Within each branch are the four knowledge lenses, taken directly from the four parts of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Hear, Believe, Celebrate and Live. Each lens reflects the language of the Catechism itself, which states that the mystery of faith which we hear and receive requires us to ‘believe in it’, to ‘celebrate it’ and to ‘live from it’. All our lessons begin with 'Hear', where our children listen to the Word of God, directly from the Bible. 

GK Chesterton reminds us of the importance of stories, and how this helps shape us; Storytelling, and therefore stories from the Bible, enables children to demonstrate awe and wonder. 

In order to assess the children’s learning in R.E, the RED provides ‘The Ways of Knowing’, a set of skills that children will develop: Understand, Discern and Respond. The Ways of Knowing and the Knowledge Lenses help provide the expected outcomes for each branch that teachers use to assess what children have learnt and acknowledge areas for development.

Please click on the year group you would like to see our R.E curriculum in action below: 

Busy Bees RE

Nursery RE

Reception RE

Year 1 RE

Year 2 RE

Year 3 RE

Year 4 RE

Year 5 RE

Year 6 RE

R.E Curriculum plans: