Croydon’s new SACRE curriculum strengthens our commitment to foster a rich, inclusive, and engaging educational environment for all our pupils. This curriculum has been thoughtfully developed with input from a diverse range of voices, ensuring that it not only meets statutory requirements but reflects Croydon's community. At the heart of this curriculum is a focus on promoting understanding, respect, and dialogue among pupils from all backgrounds. We believe that by exploring a wide range of religious and non-religious worldviews, our children and young people will develop both empathy and insight and approach their journey through life with these important skills.

The Principal Aim of Religious Education is to:
1. Enable pupils to understand and reflect upon the religious and spiritual beliefs, practises, insights, and experiences that are expressed in humanity’s search for meaning in life.
2. Provide opportunities for pupils to explore and express their own responses and personal beliefs.

It should be noted that ‘providing opportunities for pupils to explore and express their own responses and personal beliefs’ allows the addition of looking at World Views as well as individual religious views.

The principal aim of the syllabus is met through the Programmes of Study which incorporate two components:
• Attainment target 1: Learning about Religious and non religious Worldviews
• Attainment target 2: Learning from Religious and non-Religious Worldviews and Human Experience.

The syllabus for each year group can be found below.