The FitzWimarc School is an 11-16 secondary comprehensive school which is also a DfES designated Language College. It is a nine form entry school with about 1340 pupils on roll. Address: 72 Hockley Road, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 8EB.         Head: Mr. J. Fuller B.Ed.(Hons), M.Sc. Telephone: 01268 743884 Facsimile: 01268 742877 Further information about the school can be accessed via the school's main website. Website address:http://www.fitzwimarc.essex.sch.uk Click here for more information about the school generally!            Map of School Location Search the Web from HERE           Help Raise Funds for FitzWimarc - click here!

At The FitzWimarc School, we follow the new Essex Agreed Syllabus "Religious Education in Essex". This has two attainment targets for R.E.:

1. learning about religions
2. learning from experience and religion.

Learning About Religions - RE1

A central task of RE is to enable pupils to learn about Christianity and other major world religions. Pupils will develop understanding of:

• the nature of religion as a distinctive way of responding to and interpreting experience;
• religious truth claims and answers that religions offer to fundamental questions about life and existence;
• how religion gives meaning, purpose and fulfilment to many people’s lives;
• profound similarities and equally profound differences between and within the great world faiths;
• the influence of religion, both historical and contemporary, on individuals, societies and cultures;
• the religious and cultural diversity of contemporary British society, and how such diversity enriches our national life.

Learning about religions should develop empathy in pupils, engaging their feelings and the imagination.

Learning From Experience and Religion – RE2

This area is concerned with enabling pupils to reflect on and respond to significant aspects of human experience. It is also concerned with enabling them to reflect on and respond to what they have learned about different religions.

As well as enabling pupils to make informed and thoughtful personal responses, learning from experience and religion also enables them to engage with, analyse, interpret and critically evaluate the views of others, including religious believers. Through this, pupils will learn to recognise that people see things in different ways, and respect the right of others to hold views that are different from their own.

Increasingly, as they mature, this will help pupils to clarify their personal stances in relation to a range of issues associated with religion. It will also help them in their own quests for identity, meaning and purpose, and helping them mature in respect of their own beliefs, values and attitudes.

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