Religious Education is at the core of our curriculum, allowing us to develop children’s religious literacy, knowledge and understanding of their faith.
We follow the ‘Meet in My Name’ RE curriculum.
The RE curriculum is therefore based on the truth revealed by God about ourselves, our life together and our ultimate destiny with God.
In the 2024/25 academic year we took part in a trial of the new ‘Meet in my Name’ curriculum. Our RE lead Mr Ward has been involved in the planning and implementation of the new RE curriculum across the diocese of Nottingham. At St Edward’s we trialed the new curriculum as it was being developed and were involved directly with assessing its impact on pupils. We are now in our third year of using the ‘Meet in my Name’ curriculum and RE within our school is alive and thriving.
Curriculum Intent – Meet in my Name
We want to tell the story of our faith. We are going to accompany young people on a journey of learning, growth and exploration with a curriculum that is centred on Christ and filled with Joy. Our curriculum will be open, diverse and accessible to all regardless of where we start from. It will be ambitious, challenging and engaging, built to allow young people and staff the freedom to explore a living and active faith made real in the everyday life of their community.
We are going to ask big questions and we are going to listen, with assessment approaches that allow young people the opportunity for heartfelt and authentic expression. We are going to understand how to live a life inspired by the Gospels and Catholic Social Teaching to allow young people to see faith at work in the world.
Our curriculum is not simply about imparting knowledge, but about educating and forming the whole person to feel, think and live.
If you have any questions about the ‘Meet in my Name’ curriculum please speak to Mr Ward.
St Ralph Sherwin
‘Today rather than tomorrow’
St Ralph Sherwin was born in Rodsley, Derbyshire, in 1550. He was educated at Eton College from 1563 to 1567 and was then a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
He crossed to France on the pretext of studying medicine, but made for the English College at Douai, where he was ordained a priest by the Bishop of Cambrai on 23rd March 1577. He left France for the English College in Rome, where he stayed for nearly three years.
From Rome, he returned to London to minister to Catholic converts but was arrested in 1580 for the crime of priesthood. Queen Elizabeth I offered to make him a bishop if he would renounce the Catholic Church, but he refused. He endured torture, including the rack, before being charged with high treason for promoting Catholicism and sentenced to death.
Saints Ralph Sherwin, Edmund Campion SJ and Alexander Briant were executed in succession at Tyburn, London, on 1st December 1581.
They were among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales who were canonised at St Peter’s, Rome, on 25th October 1970.
His individual feast day is celebrated on 1st December, the day of his martyrdom.
Prayer to Saint Ralph Sherwin
Most Holy Priest and Martyr, Saint Ralph Sherwin, you gave your whole life freely and earnestly,
forsaking all risk to yourself, seeking to do the Lord’s will “today rather than tomorrow”.
You died for love of Christ and his Church, as a witness to bring others to the truth.
Pray that we might follow the Lord more earnestly, with eyes fixed firmly on his Son, never putting off till tomorrow what can be done today.
Obtain for us the grace to share your courage and conviction, to live lives transformed by love of Jesus, following His call wherever it may lead, sharing Him with all whom we meet.
Amen
