ABSTRACT
The Agreed Syllabus, as it evolved between about 1924 and 1964, was almost entirely a syllabus dealing with the past. Interest in the present was directed towards the nurturing of the religious lives of the pupils. From the late 1950s there was, in religious education, a much more thorough emphasis upon the centrality of the experience of the child, and in response to an upsurge of activity and renewal in the early 1960s, a new generation of Agreed Syllabuses began to appear. The first, and one of the most influential, was the West Riding Agreed Syllabus, Suggestions for Religious Education.. In aided and special agreement schools, denominational teaching may be given in accordance with the trust deeds or the customs of the school, but in certain circumstances teaching according to the agreed syllabus of the area may also be made available.
