Religious Education

Half-term 1: What are ultimate questions? 

Half-term 2: What is a religion?

Half-term 3: Biblical Literacy – What is God like?

Half-term 4: Biblical Literacy – Who were the Israelites?

Half-term 5: Biblical Literacy – Who was Jesus?

Half-term 6: Biblical Literacy – Why did Jesus die?

A successful scholar after Year 7 will:

• Be able to think critically about meaningful questions about life
• Attain important disciplinary knowledge
• Gain knowledge about the roots of Abrahamic faiths

Half-term 1: What is Judaism?

Half-term 2: What is Christianity?

Half-term 3: What is Islam?

Half-term 4: What is Hinduism?

Half-term 5: What is Buddhism?

Half-term 6: What is Sikhism?

A successful scholar after Year 8 will:

• Have a deep understanding of the history, beliefs and teachings of traditionally major worldviews
• Compare and contrast Abrahamic faiths and dharmic traditions
• Understand the place of different worldviews in relation to each other

Half-term 1: How do we debate?

Half-term 2: What are alternatice worldviews?

Half-term 3: Is philosophy the answer?

Half-term 4: How do ethics affect our lives?

Half-terms 5 and 6: What is the place of religion and worldview in contemprary society? 

A successful scholar after Year 9 will:

• Reinforce key disciplinary knowledge in orer to discuss and debate philosophcal and ethical topics
• Use their knowledge of major world faiths and traditions to answer important ethical questions
• Broaden their knowledge of faiths and traditions from Y8 to include alternative worldviews, including non-religious worldviews

Half-term 1: Christianity- History, Beliefs and Teachings

Half-term 2: Christianity – Practices

Half-term 3: Islam – History, Beliefs and Teachings

Half-term 4: Islam- Practices

Half-term 5: Thematic Studies – Relationships and Families

Half-term 6: Thematic Studies – Peace and Conflict

A successful scholar after Year 10 will:

• Solidify knowledge from KS3 and develop their understanding of Christianity and Islam
• Be able to successfully plan, structure and write academic responses to exam-style questions
• Engage with ethical issues with maturity, compassion, whilst providing insightful and critical points of view

Half-term 1: Thematic Studies – Peace and Conflict

Half-term 2: Thematic Studies – Crime and Punishment

Half-term 3: Thematic Studies – Human Rights and Social Justice

Half-terms 4 and 5: Bespoke revision programme based on scholars’ needs

Half-term 6: GCSE Examinations

A successful scholar after Year 11 will:

• Build on their knowledge and skills from Y10
• Understand how to achieve sucess in all aspects of the religious education assessment
• Be able to identify personal areas of developent and have a clear path forward to improvement
• Enter their revision period with resillience and a desire to demonstrate the very best of themselves in their religious education assessment