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/ anti-racism

Year 9

Is there one truth or many? The blind men and the elephant.

If God is all loving, why does evil exist?

Key Stage 3

Spring Term 1

Spring Term 2

Year 7

Are humans doomed? The fall.

How do Jewish beliefs influence Jewish practices?

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

How do Jewish beliefs influence Jewish practices?

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