ABSTRACT
For Religious Education to be educationally effective-that is, for pupils to be able to develop an interest in religion which is on-going and sustained by an ability to apply religious insights and wisdom to reflection on experience-it is essential that teachers agree on both the general aims of their teaching and also the content through which to achieve them. In other words, it is essential to have some progression built into schemes of work and this necessitates some agreement on what is to be taught and to what purpose. Of course, the detail of how this is done is the concern of individual schools, but the following guidelines should be helpful in providing a structure for long-term planning.
