Intent for KS1 to KS2
Iceni Primary Academy have planned a robust and challenging curriculum to help students understand the multicultural diverse world we live in. Through the Norfolk Syllabus’ lenses of theology, philosophy and human and social sciences, we aim to allow children to learn and reflect about major world religions and world-views; encouraging them to explore how religions can affect the fabric of personal and social life and how it can define a culture.
We actively follow the Norfolk Agreed Syllabus (2019), teaching the six main world religions of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism alongside Humanism (a non-religious worldview). In Key Stage One, children mainly learn about Christianity, Islam and Judaism with the three other religions being taught as a periphery. Key Stage Two, teaches all six religions with equal weighting focusing even more on the lenses of theology, philosophy and human social sciences. Children are taught in depth knowledge of different faiths and world views in order to use their skills of exploration, comparison and debate to work towards becoming religiously literate.