Religious Education – To Know You More Clearly
To fulfil our Religious Education aims and objectives we use the ‘To Know You More Clearly’ programme from the new Religious Education Directory prescribed by the Archdiocese of Liverpool.
We are following the programme as it is rolled out by the Archdiocese of Liverpool for each year group.
From September 2026 all year groups are following this programme with the exception of Year 6 who will continue to use the Come and See programme.
‘To Know You More Clearly’ (Reception-Year 5)
Overview of Content – Concepts
| Understand | Discern | Respond |
| See | Judge | Act |
| What will I see and hear to help me understand? | How will I discover more? | What can I do now? |
Branches and Lenses
There are six branches in ‘To know You More Clearly’ – one per half term. The branches are:
- Creation and Covenant
- Prophecy and Promise
- From Galilee to Jerusalem
- From Desert to Garden
- To the Ends of the Earth
- Dialogue and Encounter
Each branch follows:
- Hear
- Believe
- Celebrate
- Live
At the end of each branch and lenses the children will:
- Understand
- Discern
- Respond
Come and See (Year 6 only)
At St John Vianney, we follow the Come and See programme of Religious Education in year 6 only. This is recommended by the Archdiocese of Liverpool as our current scheme of work.
Come and See is an invitation to exploration and promise of life for everyone. Come and See offers the opportunity to search, to explore, to discover, and to respond; this is part of what it is to be human.
Come and see aims to raise questions and provide materials for children to reflect on their own experience. For all children, the programme will raise questions of meaning and purpose and enable children to think critically, providing materials for reflecting on their own experience.
It will help them to explore the beliefs and values and the way of life of the Catholic traditions, and of other faith traditions, developing good attitudes and dispositions so that children are instilled with a ‘love learning’ and a desire to go on learning. Children will be offered a sense of self-worth through experience of belonging to the caring community of St John Vianney Catholic Primary School.