Religious Education

Religious Education in St Padarn’s is a core subject. Our school aims to provide a high-quality religious education (RE) curriculum that is faithful to the teachings of The Religious Education Directory for Catholic Schools, Academies and Colleges in England and Wales (RED).

‘To know you more clearly’- the RED – is currently being trialled in Catholic schools and is scheduled to be fully implemented across England and Wales by September 2026. Padarn Sant are adhering to diocesan advice to start a three-year implementation and review phase. We have been conducting regular reviews, which have fed back to the governors and the diocesan working party and schools. We are in the final year of our trial period introducing the Year 2 and Year 6 syllabus for the first time and with a view to having the RED fully mapped and ready for full implementation by September 2026.

The time allocation for Religious Education is 10% of the taught week in accordance with the guidelines from the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales (May 2000). Therefore, pupils will receive two and a half hours per week. In addition to this, pupils will receive one piece of RE homework per term. This allocated curriculum time does not include forms of prayer and liturgy.

The new Prayer and Liturgy Directory ‘To love You more dearly’ is statutory from September 2025 and we will be using the directory to plan, structure and lead our prayer and liturgical celebrations.