Religious Education at St Nicholas and St Laurence Primary

At St Nicholas and St Laurence CE Primary School, we use a range of resources to teach Religious Education. The main schemes are ‘Understanding Christianity’ and ‘The Emmanuel Project’. We believe both approaches are effective because they enable the children to strengthen their skills in different ways.

Understanding Christianity

Understanding Christianity is a Church of England Education Office project. The key purpose of this project is to help support pupils in developing their own thinking and their understanding of Christianity, as a contribution to their understanding of the world and their own experience within it.

The aim is to help children develop a coherent understanding of Christian belief and practice. Pupils explore the significant theological concepts within Christianity as part of developing their wider religious, theological and cultural literacy.

The Emmanuel Project provides challenging and enjoyable material for classroom teachers of RE. All the units were written and trialled by outstanding teachers. Created by the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, this resource is a complete RE scheme of work for primary schools and is used extensively by C of E schools, community schools and academies. The resource provides a complete set of 49 enquiry-based units for teaching RE across the primary school with clear background notes: