Religious Studies

Curriculum intent:

At Highlands, Religious studies aims to

provide a knowledge rich, rigorous and stimulating learning experience to prepare pupils to pursue the subject, and enable them to engage in a multi-religious and multi-secular world.
engage students in the study of other people’s beliefs as well as appreciate the rich contribution both religions and non religions have made to our own worldviews.
promote mutual respect, tolerance and understanding across different cultures and communities by preparing students to think in critical and scholarly ways about the representation of religion and non religions
Deepen students understanding of the development of religious/ non religious worldviews through the explicit teaching of religious literacy

Exam board: GCSE: AQA GCSE 8062/1A and 8062/2A with emphasis on Christianity and Buddhism,

A Level: AQA specification - 7062

Key Stage 3
	Autumn Term 1	Autumn Term 2
Year 7	Are humans and animals different?	Why do Buddhists believe in anatta (‘no soul’)?
Year 8	Was Jesus a rebel? religious/ political context at the time of Jesus	Does Jesus inspire activism today? Black Jesus/ Liberation theology/ antiracism
Year 9	Is there one truth or many? The blind men and the elephant	Is the Christian and Islamic God the same?

Key Stage 3
	Spring Term 1	Spring Term 2
Year 7	Are humans doomed? The Fall	What would you do for someone you love? Sacrifice in Judaism
Year 8	Christianity: What does it mean to be saved?	Christianity: What does it mean to be saved?
Year 9	How do we know about God? General revelation (arguments for/against)	How do we know God? Special revelation (texts/ religious experience)

Key Stage 3
	Summer Term 1	Summer Term 2
Year 7	What would you do for someone you love? The story of Exodus	Assessments
Year 8	Islam: How does being a Muslim affect someone’s life?	Assessments
Year 9	’God is a man. Get over it’ Language, anthropomorphism, feminist perspectives of God	Assessments

Key Stage 4
	Autumn Term 1	Autumn Term 2
Year 10	Christianity: Beliefs and Teachings	Christianity: Beliefs and Teachings
Year 11	Theme B: Religion and Life	Theme C: God and Revelation

Key Stage 4
	Spring Term 1	Spring Term 2
Year 10	Christianity: Practices	Buddhism: Beliefs and Teachings
Year 11	Theme D: Religion, War and Peace	Theme E: Crime and Punishment

Key Stage 4
	Summer Term 1	Summer Term 2
Year 10	Buddhism: Beliefs and Teachings	Buddhism: Practices
Year 11	Revision and Exam preparations

Key Stage 5
	Autumn Term 1	Autumn Term 2
Year 12	Arguments for the existence of God: the Design Argument Arguments for the existence of God: the Ontological Argument Normative ethics theories: Natural Moral Law	Arguments for the existence of God: the Cosmological Argument Normative ethics theories: Situation Ethics Normative ethics theories: Aristotle’s Virtue ethics
Year 13	Miracles Self, death and the afterlife	Meta-ethics Free will and moral responsibility

Key Stage 5
	Spring Term 1	Spring Term 2
Year 12	Evil and Suffering Application of Ethical theories	Religious Experience Christianity: Source of wisdom and authority Christianity: God
Year 13	Conscience Bentham and Kant Christianity, gender and sexuality	Christianity and science Christianity and the challenge of secularisation

Key Stage 5
	Summer Term 1	Summer Term 2
Year 12	Christianity: Self, death and the afterlife Christianity: Good conduct and key moral principles	Christianity: Expressions of religious identity Revision and mock exam preparations
Year 13	Christianity, migration and religious pluralism Revision and exam preparations

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