Syllabi and Frameworks for RE SUG 1007 18/11/2014

For the past couple of weeks we have been discussing the position Religious Education has had within the curriculum over the past 70 years, since the end of world war two. We have spoken about a number of issues ranging from the position of RE in the national curriculum presently and before the national curriculum was brought in by Margaret Thatcher in 1988 as part of her education reforms as a new way of testing children on a regular basis. For this weeks lesson we researched an agreed RE syllabi from the local council. This is because RE is not part of the national curriculum and each local SACRE will decide what is taught in the schools of its district.

I studies the syllabi for Sefton in Liverpool, this was quite easy to understand and followed alot of the other syllabi around the country. If I was a teacher in Sefton I believe it was a good syllabi because it described some of the tasks that it wanted the students to undertake as part of their learning, in contrast some syllabi did not mention the work they wanted them to do just what they wanted the children to learn. The Sefton syllabi also introduced the level system that alot of schools in the country use and make it very clear and easy to understand how the student can reach the required level and how you as the teacher can asses them.