Staff

Head of RE: Mrs F Nasir

Teacher/ Head of Year 8: Mr D Leak

Intent

At Selly Park, we offer a broad, balanced and aspirational curriculum to ensure our pupils learn from and about religion as this will enable them to understand the world around them.

Through a vibrant learning environment in Religious Education, pupils develop their knowledge of world faiths as this helps remove any potential barriers to learning. Through engaging and inspirational teaching, pupils become more aware of the beliefs, values and traditions of other individuals, societies and communities. This helps add to our pupils’ cultural capital opportunities.

The Spiral curriculum delivered helps build pupils’ prior learning and encourages them to ask questions about the world around them reflecting on their own values and beliefs. Pupils are helped to prepare to make the right choices to help them in the next stage of their education, training or employment.

Whole school Character virtues are embedded in lessons as pupils become more confident, motivated and resilient learners.

Curriculum Overview

Key Stage 3

At Key Stage 3 the students study a wide range of topics:

Signs and Symbols in everyday life

Festivals of light

Worship

Food

Religious Dress

The Existence of God

Religious Buildings

Holy Books

The Life and Teachings of Jesus

Spring Festivals

The Life and Teachings of Prophet Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him)

The Church

The Hajj Pilgrimage

The Holy Land and Lourdes

Non Violence

Rites of Passage in Islam

Rites of Passage in Christianity

Medical Ethics

Key Stage 4

At GCSE pupils study 2 religions. Christianity and Islam following the OCR syllabus.

Curriculum 2016 will mean that there will be changes to the GCSE provisions. Students opting for this subject at GCSE will still study 2 religions but the content will change. We are waiting for the QCA to approve the proposals of the Examination Boards. The RE department is looking at various options available to us and will make a final decision in terms of which syllabus and examination boards content best suits our students' needs once the final teaching specifications have been approved and published. We will update you once new information is made available to us.

Exam Board

OCR RELIGIOUS STUDIES 9-1 (J625) Syllabus

Beliefs and Teachings & Practices ( Christianity J625/01 and Islam J625/02)

Religion, philosophy and ethics in a modern world from a Muslim perspective (J625/07)

Extra-Curricular

Extra support sessions are made available for students at Lunchtimes for intervention and completion of work. After school drop-in sessions, as well as Saturday sessions, are also made available to KS4 students preparing for their examinations.

Useful Links

https://senecalearning.com/en-GB/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zh3rkqt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/examspecs/zhwy7nb

https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/key-stage-3/subjects/religious-education

https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/key-stage-4/subjects/religious-education