St Thomas More Catholic Primary School

Religious Education

It is recognised at St Thomas More School that Religious Education is central to all we do. Pupils are helped to

develop an understanding of Catholic values and doctrines and they are encouraged to participate in the life of the Parish.

Click the link below to view more information about Religious Education in our school.

This October the Catholic Church around the world will observe an Extraordinary Month of Mission. The EMM is an initiative of Pope Francis. Its aim is to encourage all members of our Catholic community to recognise themselves as missionary disciples, working and praying together to share God’s love with everyone, everywhere.

There are four main aims of the Extraordinary Month of Mission:

To encourage a deeper relationship with Jesus through prayer.

To be inspired by the actions of our saints, martyrs and living missionaries.

To increase understanding of mission.

To increase support of overseas mission.

At STM, we will be participating in several ways! We will be having an assembly to showcase the purpose and activities for the month, we will be having daily EMM prayers in class, we will be reflecting using the EMM daily calendar linked to the aims of EMM, we will have EMM whole school homework and we will have an EMM whole school display based on work in class as well as homework.

Click here to view report from The Diocese of Hallam
Section 48 Inspection Report - The Catholic Life of the School and Religious Education May 2019

Click here to view our Gathering Together Autumn Term booklet.

Click here to view the themes we are exploring in RE this Autumn Term.

Click here to view our RE Year by Year Overview.

We follow the “Come and See” programme of Religious Education from F2 to Year 6.

Click here to visit the 'Come and See' website

Other Faiths

The children are taught to value and respect other religious beliefs through in-depth study of other world faiths.

Two other faiths are covered each year and different classes will teach different faiths. All classes will teach Judaism each year as required by the Come & See RE scheme.

Over a 3 year period the four main other faiths will be taught. A child who enters school in Reception and remains in school until end of Y6 will be taught each major other faith 4 times.

Class	Other faith - Autumn	Other faith - Summer
F2	Judaism	Sikhism
Y1	Hinduism	Judaism
Y2	Judaism	Islam
Y3	Sikhism	Judaism
Y4	Judaism	Hinduism
Y5	Islam	Judaism
Y6	Judaism	Sikhism

We aim to teach children about loving human relationships developmentally alongside the Science curriculum, and within a framework of Religious Education.

Come and See