{"id":426,"date":"2018-11-07T20:19:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T20:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/?page_id=426"},"modified":"2018-11-07T20:21:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T20:21:07","slug":"what-is-re","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/religious-eduction\/what-is-re\/","title":{"rendered":"What is RE?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Good RE is essential for living well in the 21<sup>st <\/sup>century.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It encourages students to explore a range of beliefs and values,&nbsp;asking students to reflect on big questions about identity, meaning and morality and connecting these with the attitudes they hold and the decisions they make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Religious Education provides a context for understanding the culture of the UK: the role faith has played historically in shaping laws and social values, and the part it still plays in today&#8217;s society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it supports wider aims of community cohesion, as students learn to understand and appreciate ideas, beliefs and practices which may be very different from their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As such, RE holds a unique place in the curriculum. Schools, academies and free schools, without exception, are required to teach Religious Education to students in all years, from reception to Year 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no national curriculum for RE. Instead, maintained schools without a particular faith designation follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/religious-eduction\/locally-agreed-syllabus\/\" target=\"_blank\">locally agreed syllabus<\/a>. Academies without a faith designation are not obliged to follow this, but may choose to adopt it. (Schools and academies with a faith designation teach RE according to the tenets of their particular faith.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As with Collective Worship, parents have the right to withdraw their children from Religious Education. For more information on this and other legalities around RE, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natre.org.uk\/about-re\/legal-requirements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good RE is essential for living well in the 21st century. It encourages students to explore a range of beliefs and values,&nbsp;asking students to reflect on big questions about identity,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"parent":39,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-426","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426\/revisions\/429"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bristolsacre.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}