Religious Education

Collective Worship

Spirited Arts

Ella’s Spirited Arts entry, “The Riddle Man”, has been published in RE Today.

What an amazing achievement! You can view her artwork in our 2024 Spirited Arts gallery.

Religious Education at our school

At Barnabas Oley, we follow the Cambridgeshire Agreed Syllabus 2023-2028 as it forms the legal basis for Religious Education.

At EYFS we investigate Christianity and other religions or belief systems represented in the school and local area. At KS1 and KS2, we explore Understanding Christianity for the majority of the year, with school designed units on another World Religion and a time of reflection with Spirited Arts. 

Each Key Stage builds on the one before. Christianity is studied in all Key Stages. By the end of KS2 all major religions and a secular world view have been studied. We offer a rolling programme to avoid repetition. Understanding Christianity themes are studied in a two year rolling programme and other World Religions in a four year cycle. 

Please see below the RE Curriculum Plans and topics for all key stages.

Curriculum statement for the teaching and learning of RE

At Barnabas Oley Primary School, we are committed to providing our children with a curriculum which has a clear intention, is implemented to the highest standards and impacts positively upon their learning outcomes.

Read our Curriculum Statement 2023-2028.

RE statement of entitlement for church schools (2019)

View Statement of Entitlement for Church Schools from the diocese - February 2025

Further School Information

• Collective Worship – see our separate page
• Spirited Arts – see our separate page

Published articles by our RE Subject Leader, Ms Ostler

RE Today is a magazine for teachers of RE and other people with a special interest in the subject.

• RE Today article: Listening to other species – February 2025
• RE Today article: Feeling our way through the half-light – reflections from the classroom – November 2024
• RE Today article: Breaking free in RE – vision and values for the school community – January 2024
• RE Today article: 'Don't pinch the corners!': The Jewish celebration of Purim – May 2023
• RE Today article: From the good Samaritan to the climate crisis - July 2022
• RE Today article: Healing Journeys – January 2022
• RE Today article: Scheme of work designed for Cedar and Silver Birch Classes - autumn 2017

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