The Way
At St Joseph's, we follow ‘The Way’ Catholic Primary Religious Education Programme. The Way is an extensive programme which covers a range of challenging themes from EYFS up to Year 6. In each branch The Way offers children the opportunity to explore, reveal and respond.
The programme has been developed to respond to the needs of children today in their faith journey, to enable them to grow in their religious literacy and understanding in a way that is coherent with current educational principles.
It is designed to support teachers in their delivery of religious education. It integrates the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Catholic Levels of Attainment and the new Religious Education Curriculum Directory.
At the heart of the programme is the mystery of God’s self-revelation of love through Jesus Christ. The Way gives pupils the opportunity to explore the mystery of faith through Scripture and Tradition.
It is important to us that our children see themselves as part of a wider community.
RE Overview
In each year, children will encounter a series of six branches. Each branch will be uncovered during six weeks with planning and resources provided. The overview of each branch shows the progression of learning across 18 learning times (6 weeks of 3 each) and accompanying continuous provision.
The spiralling nature of the curriculum encourages the retrieval of knowledge from branch to branch to build a coherent and progressively sequenced understanding of religion, set in the context of Catholic Christian beliefs and traditions, to provide a model for exploration.
Branch 1- Creation and Covenant
Branch 2- Prophecy and Promise
Branch 3- Galilee to Jerusalem
Branch 4- Desert to Garden
Branch 5- To the Ends of the Earth
Branch 6- Dialogue and Encounter