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Religious Education

Name	Role	Email
Mrs S Martin	Subject Leader	S.Martin@beverleygrammar.co.uk
Mr L Dent	Teacher	L.Dent@beverleygrammar.co.uk

Curriculum Content

	Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Term 1	Hinduism	Sikhism	Buddhism Island Project
Term 2	Judaism	Christianity- increase in depth and breadth	Problem of Evil Holocaust
Term 3	Christianity	Islam	Civil Rights Life after Death

	Key Stage 4
GCSE Religious Education	RE is a core subject and it is a legal requirement that all students study it at schools in England even if they haven’t opted to take it at GCSE. Compulsory RE fulfils this legal requirement as well as teaching your child some essential core values and skills which will help him make better sense of the modern world in which we live. It is also anticipated that RE can aid community cohesion in contributing to a more tolerant society, help limit extremism and promote ideas about British values. Religious Education sessions will be delivered during one form time per week throughout Year 10 at Key Stage 4. These sessions will provide you with knowledge, allow debate and promote empathy and tolerance. A variety of approaches to world issues will be used in these sessions, focussing on the responses of different groups to these issues. Topics will include, but not be limited to: war, peace, terrorism, the death penalty, prisons, abortion, euthanasia, sex, contraception, gangs, the environment, animal rights, medical technologies and protesting. You need to be open-minded and enjoy discussing people’s opinions on a wide variety of exciting issues. Excellent skills of both verbal and written communication are essential and will be further developed by this course.
GCSE Religious Studies	Lots of highly relevant and interesting things such as: Theme A – Relationships: including sex, marriage, same sex relationships, cohabitation, contraception and gender equality. Theme B - Religion and Life: including exploration into the origins of the universe, the environment whether it’s our duty to protect it, the ethical treatment of animals, abortion, euthanasia and beliefs about death. Theme D - Religion, Peace and Conflict: including war, peace, pacifism, terrorism, protest, Just War theory and pacifism. Theme E – Religion, crime and punishment: including, what is evil? Can people be evil? Different types of crime, the causes of crime, different theories of punishment and attitudes to the death penalty. The study of key beliefs, practices and teachings of Christianity and Islam.

Key Stage 4

GCSE

Religious

Education

RE is a core subject and it is a legal requirement that all students study it at schools in England even if they haven’t opted to take it at GCSE.

Compulsory RE fulfils this legal requirement as well as teaching your child some
essential core values and skills which will help him make better sense of the modern world in which we live. It is also anticipated that RE can aid community cohesion in contributing to a more tolerant society, help limit extremism and promote ideas about British values.

Religious Education sessions will be delivered during one form time per week
throughout Year 10 at Key Stage 4. These sessions will provide you with knowledge, allow debate and promote empathy and tolerance.

A variety of approaches to world issues will be used in these sessions, focussing on
the responses of different groups to these issues. Topics will include, but not be
limited to: war, peace, terrorism, the death penalty, prisons, abortion, euthanasia,
sex, contraception, gangs, the environment, animal rights, medical technologies and protesting.

You need to be open-minded and enjoy discussing people’s opinions on a wide
variety of exciting issues. Excellent skills of both verbal and written communication
are essential and will be further developed by this course.

GCSE

Religious Studies

Lots of highly relevant and interesting things such as:
Theme A – Relationships: including sex, marriage, same sex relationships, cohabitation,
contraception and gender equality.
Theme B - Religion and Life: including exploration into the origins of the universe, the
environment whether it’s our duty to protect it, the ethical treatment of animals,
abortion, euthanasia and beliefs about death.
Theme D - Religion, Peace and Conflict: including war, peace, pacifism, terrorism, protest,
Just War theory and pacifism.
Theme E – Religion, crime and punishment: including, what is evil? Can people be evil?
Different types of crime, the causes of crime, different theories of punishment and
attitudes to the death penalty.
The study of key beliefs, practices and teachings of Christianity and Islam.

Useful Websites

BBC religions page Exam papers and mark-schemes Purchase revision guides AQA

Purchase revision guides CGP

Resources on Google classroom

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