Freemans

opportunities to enjoy physical activities and develop the strength, co-ordination, agility and
skills which will help them to appreciate their potential physical ability and take advantage of
this in individual and group pursuits.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
The school has long established links with the Churches of All Hallows' and St.
Barnabas. We have always fostered these links and the clergy have always played an active
part in the religious and spiritual life of the school. The County Agreed Syllabus for Religious
Education provides a basis for our RE programme and much of this work is studied within the
context of our Humanities programme.
Within this Christian framework, we seek to enable the child to appreciate our own and other
cultural forms which may be different, to understand and be sensitive to the thoughts, ideas
and forms of worship of others.
Through Religious Education we aim to make a significant contribution to the moral, spiritual,
social and cultural development of the children, although all other areas of the curriculum and
the values to which the school subscribes will also play a full part. We aim to deepen the
children's awareness of patterns of belief and practice and provide them with ways of
understanding and expressing their own views. Our children will be taught the difference
between right and wrong, to have respect for others, to have a sense of tolerance,
understanding, fairness, justice, rights, responsibility and duty. The children will be made
aware of the conventions which society accepts, and the cultural traditions of this country and
of the many different groups of people who have made this country their home.
Under the provision of the 1944 Education Act and the 1988 Education Reform Act parents
may request their children be exempt from Religious Education and Religious Worship in
school.
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