Religious Education is at the core of our Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School curriculum. Our curriculum complies with the requirements of the Bishops of England and Wales and has been designed in line with the new Religious Education Directory (To Know You More Clearly). With support from the Liverpool Archdiocese, we introduced the new Religious Education Directory (RED) 'To Know You More Clearly' in all classes. This school year, we have rolled out across all year groups. The new RED will be compulsory in all Catholic schools in all classes by September 2026. This new directory seeks to present the teaching of religious education in a sequential and progressive form, rooted in the liturgical year. The framework has four structural elements: Knowledge lenses indicate what should be known by the end of each age phase. These are split into hear, believe, live and celebrate. The ‘ways of knowing’ are the skills which develop as the children progress through their curriculum journey.
These are split into:
