The 2 attainment targets of this syllabus are:
<== I. Learning from faith (previous page)
II. Learning about religious traditions
Pupils should be offered a holistic view of religious traditions, their beliefs, their expressions, and their practical actions. Thus pupils should be helped to develop their knowledge, their affections, their dispositions, their skills and relationships with others in society by6:
- Bringing to mind7 and learning about key religious practices and beliefs, sacred writings, persons and institutions.
- Bringing to mind and learning about significant religious stories, narratives, events, and places.
- Exploring culturally important, and widely valued, religious expressions e.g. in art, music, literature, film, artefacts, architecture, dance, commemorations, scientific and business activities.
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- Engaging with religious aspirations and commitments to personal and social well-being, and practical religious involvement in socio-political life.8.
- Understanding and properly applying religious language and concepts.
- Entering into serious dialogue with others and learning how faith traditions have encountered and engaged with each other.
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In so doing pupils will have dealt with the key areas of religious life: religious practices, beliefs, sacred writings, figures, institutions, cultural expressions, events, actions, ethics and experience. An elaboration of the contribution that Relgious Education can make to the wider curriculum is set out in 'Supporting Documents', ‘Forming a View'’.
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