Welcome to Religious Eduction

Religious Education is studied by all students in KS3 and is an optional subject in KS4

Aim of the Religious Eduction Curriculum

• Religious Education seeks to introduce students to religious and non-religious beliefs and practices. The curriculum will help students to consider how having a faith has an impact on the lives of believers both individually and collectively in our local community and in the wider world.
• Religious Education will encourage students to recognise and acknowledge what it means to have a faith, including how a religious life will impact a person’s belief system and practices.
• Religious Education will help students to share their own experience and engage with the experiences of others.
• Religious Education will teach students to evaluate what is valuable about leading a religious life or one informed by a non-religious perspective.
• Religious Education intends to play a role in helping students to reflect on how they act towards others in a diverse multifaith world.

The knowledge the students will have by the end of the course:

• Students will be able to investigate, explain and interpret a range of religious beliefs and other world views.
• They will be able to refer to religious writing whilst making points about different issues.
• Students will be able to give detailed explanations of how believers in different religious traditions interpret religious writing (whilst understanding the impact on a believer’s actions and beliefs).
• They will use a full religious vocabulary whilst considering different issues examined in lessons.
• Students will be able to show how belief leads to action and the different approaches that exist within different religious traditions.
• They will be able to show a full understanding of the impact of religion on the way of life of individuals, communities and societies.
• Students will be able to combine a range of evidence, arguments, reflections and examples to justify their own views on questions of religious beliefs and other world views.