At Holy Family, each child will receive a personalised Religious Education designed to meet their unique needs and abilities. Our dedicated teachers integrate Religious Education across a range of activities, real-life experiences, and moments for prayer and worship, following a thoughtfully developed curriculum.

Children are encouraged to take responsibility for their actions and relationships, showing care for themselves, one another, and the environment. We actively support and collaborate with our local parish and diocesan community, providing children opportunities to engage with global issues through various charitable organisations.

Through Religious Education, our aim is to help students understand how beliefs shape lives, fostering mutual respect and cooperation between Christianity and other faiths.

Introduction: What We Believe

As a Catholic school, 10% of our teaching and learning time is dedicated to learning about our faith as well as the other world religions. Religion lessons and opportunities for prayer and worship are used to help the children understand their uniqueness and their role within God’s family.

In previous years we have followed a core programme called ‘Come & See’ as well as teaching the children about Catholic Social Teaching through Caritas in Action and Cafod Universal Church units. In the new academic year 2025-2026, we will begin implementing ‘Lighting the Path’ for EYFS-KS1 and the KS2 Diocesan draft plan.

Year 3 & 4 benefit from music lessons from Diocese of Salford School Singing Programme’s Choral Director Kathryn Bradley.  Through the sessions, music and RE combine as children learn and perform hymns and secular songs as part of their worship as well as curriculum development.  Follow the link to hear the children sing, Laudato Si:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KBv4zxV8OY

 

SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social & Cutural Education)

The fundamental role of our work is to imbue in our children their value, worth and uniqueness as children of God. They were created to be great and through their time and shared experiences at Holy Family, we will work to make sure that they have every opportunity to achieve that greatness.

Through assemblies, opportunities for collective worship, relationships, pupil voice, themed weeks and community events we will promote and support values important to us such as tolerance and respect, personal freedom and liberty, equality of opportunity and democracy. By following Christ’s example of loving one another and promoting forgiveness and fairness, we work hard daily to ensure that this is the experience of anybody who visits our school.

Subject Leadership

Our RE Subject Leader is Gwyneth Walker.