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RE Staff |
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Curriculum Leader – Miss J Webb (ext 13276)
Teacher – Mrs C Selby
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What's happening in RE |
Religious Education
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Key Stage 3 –Year 7
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Year 7 students will study two of the main world religions; Islam and Christianity.
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Christianity |
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- Shahadah (statement of faith)
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- Zakat (giving to charity)
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Key Stage 3 –Year 8
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Students will begin the course studying Hinduism and then go on to study Prejudice and Discrimination.
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Prejudice and Discrimination
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The Holocaust/Judaism
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Key Stage 4 –Year 9 GCSE Short Course
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Year 9 students will complete the Religious Studies Edexcel Short Course examination. This comprises of four units; Life and Death, Marriage and Family, Community Cohesion and Believing in God.
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- Christian views on life after death
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- Changing attitudes to marriage and divorce
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- Non-religious views on life after death
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- Changing attitudes to sex before marriage
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- Christian views on abortion
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- Attitudes to homosexuality
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- Christian views on euthanasia
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- Attitudes to contraception
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- Changing attitudes to men and women
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- Attitudes to equal rights
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- The UK has a multi ethnic country
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- Scientific explanations of the creation of the world
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- Christian responses to scientific explanation of the creation of the world
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- Attitudes to other religions
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- Christian responses to unanswered prayers
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- How religions promote cohesion
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- Christian responses to evil and suffering
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Key Stage 4 – Full Course
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Students who opt to take the full GCSE in Religious Studies will complete the Short Course topics and; Crime and Punishment, Environment and Medical Issues, Peace and Conflict and Rights and Responsibilities.
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Environment and Medical Issues
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- Importance of justice in Christianity
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- Importance of justice in Islam
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- Stewardship in Christianity and Islam
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- Christian and Muslim attitudes to capital punishment
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- Attitudes to infertility treatments in Christianity and Islam
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- Non-religious attitudes to capital punishment
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- Laws on drugs and alcohol
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- Christian and Muslim attitudes to transplant surgery
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- Social and health problems caused by drugs and alcohol
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- Religious attitudes to drugs and alcohol
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Rights and Responsibilities
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- The Bible and moral decision making
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- The authority of the Church
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- Christian attitudes to war
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- Christian attitudes to bullying
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- Importance of human rights
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- Muslim attitudes to bullying
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- Religious conflicts within families
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- Forgiveness and reconciliation
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- Genetic engineering and cloning
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- Christian and Muslim attitudes to forgiveness and reconciliation
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- Attitudes to genetic engineering and cloning
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