Holy Trinity Religious Education Curriculum
Religious Education is taught using the ‘Come and See’ programme. We cover 9 topics throughout the year, and whilst the theme behind the topic is the same for all the children, the topics are different for each year group – allowing the children to explore new aspects of the same theme. Each year we also study other faiths including Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism.
Come and See is an invitation to exploration and a promise of life for everyone.
Come and See offers the opportunities for children to explore, reveal and respond to church teachings and Scripture at an age-appropriate level. Lessons are practical and engaging.
Come and See aims to raise questions and provide materials for children to reflect on their own experience. For all children the programme will raise questions of meaning and purpose and enable children to think critically, providing materials for reflecting on their own experience.
It will help them to explore the beliefs and values and the way of life of the Catholic traditions, and of other faith traditions, developing good attitudes and dispositions so that children are instilled with a ‘love of learning’ and a desire to go on learning.
Children will be offered a sense of self-worth through experience of belonging to the family community of Holy Trinity Catholic Primary School.
Children come and see the wonder of all that is within them and beyond them
See the colour copy below of the programme overview (curriculum map) taken from the ‘Come and See’ handbook.
The first 3 Themes and Topics:
Domestic Church – family
Baptism/Confirmation – belonging
Advent/Christmas – loving
are covered during the autumn term
The next 3 Themes and Topics:
Local Church – community
Eucharist – relating
Lent/Easter- giving
are covered during the spring term
The final 3 Themes and Topics:
Pentecost – serving
Reconciliation – inter-relating
Universal Church – world
are covered during the summer term.
Below is the key vocabulary that each year group will cover throughout the Come and See programme: