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Brinkworth Earl Danby’s CE Primary School

Brinkworth Earl Danby’s CE Primary School

Believe to Achieve! "Roots will grow down into God's love and keep us strong" EPH 3:17

RE

Subject Leader Mrs M Pocock
Contact Details uppersite@brinkworthearldanbys.wilts.sch.uk for the attention of the RE Subject Leader
Mission Sentence At Brinkworth Earl Danby's School we believe that religious education is a vital part of helping children to develop into thoughtful, reflective learners. A subject that not only stands alone, but one that should be an integral part of our daily lives. Religious education affords pupils both the opportunity to see the religion and non-religion in the world and the opportunity to make sense of their own place in that world. (DFE 2021).
Inspiring Quotes
  • Teaching is not about answering questions but about raising questions – opening doors for them in places that they could not imagine. (Yawar Baig)
  • Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.(Margaret Mead) 
  • A child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. (Pablo Casals)
  • It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it (Aristotle)
  • Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all (Aristotle)

 Curriculum Overview

Right to withdraw

At Brinkworth Earl Danby’s school we wish to be an inclusive community but recognise that parents have the legal right to withdraw their children from religious education on the grounds of conscience. However, the right of withdrawal does not extend to other areas of the curriculum when, as may happen on occasion, spontaneous questions on religious matters are raised by pupils or there are issues related to religion that arise in other subjects such as history or citizenship. We would ask any parent considering this to do so by making concerns known and applying in writing to the Headteacher. The school will invite any enquiring parents or legal guardians to talk through concerns.

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