A new Religious Education (RE) Directory for Catholic schools, colleges and academies in England and Wales was launched in 2023. Titled To Know You More Clearly, the directory sets out the purpose of RE from Early Years Foundation Stage to Year 9 and features a programme of study with a model curriculum, corresponding to the six half-terms of the school year.
The new directory replaces previous editions published in 1996 and 2012, and states that RE is to be taught for at least 10% of curriculum time up to age 16 in Catholic schools and academies, and 5% in sixth forms.
Based on the constitutions of the Second Vatican Council and rooted in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the objective of the curriculum is religiously literate and engaged young people, with the knowledge, understanding and skills to reflect spiritually, think ethically and theologically, and recognise the demands of religious commitment in everyday life.
St St Joseph the Worker, we are phasing in the implementation the new directory and it now forms the basis of our RE curriculum in Early Years and Key Stage 1.
Key Stage 2 continue to follow the Come and See programme.