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ATTAINMENT OUTCOMES AND TARGETS
Attainment outcomes
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In
Religious Education the attainment outcomes are knowledge
and understanding, skills and attitudes in relation to:
other World Religions
Personal Search
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These three outcomes should not be considered as discrete entities.
Although there will often be advantage in a separate focus on
Christianity or another World Religion the study of Christianity
may at times be enhanced by the study of an appropriate aspect
of another faith. Personal Search involves the pupils' own reflection
on and response to their own life experiences and their growing
knowledge about religion. For this reason the Personal Search
targets can often be linked with those in the other outcomes.
In a Catholic school the main focus for learning in Religious
Education is Christianity and this is reflected in this document.
Any Religious Education programme should contain elements of all
three outcomes.
Strands and attainment targets
The outcomes have been listed separately, with a similar but not
identical framework of strands for Christianity and other World
Religions and with four separate strands for Personal Search representing
key aspects of learning within that outcome. This systematic approach
is intended to help teachers to plan relevant learning contexts
for pupils and to ensure that pupils' learning will be coherent
and progressive.
Attainment targets provide specific objectives for learning along
a line of progression for each strand. Teachers should use the
targets in a flexible way to suit their particular circumstances,
using their professional experience to allow pupils every opportunity
to demonstrate their attainment of targets.
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The strands for Christianity are:
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Sacraments.
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2.
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Liturgical cycle, celebrations, festivals,
ceremonies and customs.
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Sacred writings, stories and key figures.
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Community, worship, sacred places and symbols.
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Moral values.
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