The National Curriculum requires all subjects, including RE, to make a contribution to the following five themes:

(a) Economic and industrial understanding;
(b) Education for citizenship;
(c) Careers education and guidance;
(d) Health education;
(e) Environmental education.
 
 

The degree of contribution is clearly affected by:

(i) the maturity of pupils;
(ii) the overall allocation of curricular time;
(iii) the available resources;
(iv) the nature of the course being run at any given time by individual subjects or topics.
 
 

Integral to the planning, development and evaluation of a school's curriculum, these themes can be represented in at least the following ways in RE:

(a) attitudes to wealth and values in society; the value of people created by God; first and third world issues;
(b) the Components of Celebrations, Ethics and Founders seen in a variety of faiths;
(c) the concept of vocation; some aspects of Ethics, e.g. community support and charities;
(d) the Ethics Components again, and KS4 and 16-19 work on social issues and marriage/family;
(e) Beliefs Components, particularly concerning creation and the stewardship of God's world (e.g. the Islamic notion of Khalifah), Components of Ethics and Worship, particularly contemplation of nature; Celebrations Components, especially Harvest and equivalent occasions.
 

Schools must present clear evidence of the presence of these themes in their Syllabuses and programmes of study.