At St Mary’s Church of England Academy, Beliefs and Values is based on the Suffolk Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education where we use The Emmanuel Project. This is based on a Religion and Worldviews approach. It offers an authentic view of religious and non-religious lives around the world. It starts with people and helps pupils understand that the world is a richly diverse community. The Emmanuel Project ensures Beliefs and Values is balanced, by looking through three different lenses: theology, human social science and philosophy, at an age-appropriate level.

The Emmanuel Project is written by teachers for teachers. Each half termly unit has a key question with an important concept to explore and uses an enquiry cycle to help pupils to delve deeper. Big Questions allow for comparisons to be made and links to be drawn across different religions and worldviews.