Children walk into an R.E lesson and it instantly feels special. A key focal point (for example an artefact, candle, image to provoke thoughts) greets the children with calm music and prepares the children for the start of their learning. Teachers use The Religious Education Directory - To Know You more clearly as their programme of study. They plan well-sequenced learning to meet the needs of their children and create exciting and engaging lessons.

The Religious Education Directory (RED) has a framework with four structural elements: knowledge lenses, ways of knowing, expected outcomes, curriculum branches.

• Knowledge lenses set out the object of study for pupils; they indicate what should be known: hear, believe, celebrate, live, dialogue and encounter.
• Ways of knowing set out the skills that pupils should be developing as they progress through their curriculum journey: understands, discern & respond.  
• Expected outcomes are a synthesis of the content outlined in the knowledge lenses and the skills described in the ways of knowing.
• Curriculum branches are the way this programme of study presents its model curriculum. The model curriculum presents the expected outcomes in six curriculum branches that correspond to the six half-terms of a school year.

  education is that which is stipulated in the Religious Education Curriculum Directory (2023). This directory has a framework with four structural elements: knowledge lenses, ways of knowing, expected outcomes, curriculum branches.

• Knowledge lenses set out the object of study for pupils; they indicate what should be known: hear, believe, celebrate, live, dialogue and encounter.
• Ways of knowing set out the skills that pupils should be developing as they progress through their curriculum journey: understands, discern & respond.  
• Expected outcomes are a synthesis of the content outlined in the knowledge lenses and the skills described in the ways of knowing.
• Curriculum branches are the way this programme of study presents its model curriculum. The model curriculum presents the expected outcomes in six curriculum branches that correspond to the six half-terms of a school year.