Religious Education

Head of Department: Mrs. Hinder

Outline of Course:

Content:

• Asking Difficult Questions – are Miracles evidence of God?Asking Difficult Questions – what do Hindus believe about life after death?
• Applying and Interpreting Teachings: Searching for happiness in Buddhism

Activities:

• Classwork in exercise books
• Display work on paper
• Class discussion and information sharing
• Research connected with topic being studied

Skills:

• Investigation
• Interpretation
• Analysis and evaluation
• Application and communication (written and oral)
• Synthesis

Homework Activities:

Students will be set a homework task roughly fortnightly. These tasks will involve students in research; craftwork or drawing; extended writing and/or reflection on work in lessons. Extended 'key tasks' will be set on three occasions during the year and these may occupy a number of homeworks.

Assessment:

• Students are informed when a task is an assessment task or when they will be formally assessed at the end of a module.
• Students are assessed on Attainment Target 1: Learning about religion and on Attainment Target 2: Learning from religions. Levels 1 – 8 (8 being the highest)

Parental Contribution:

• Support and encouragement to do homework tasks
• Help with research tasks.
• Help in developing an open mind towards people of different cultures and religions.
• Useful resources and equipment:
• Usual equipment for any lesson (including coloured pencils)
• Sometimes a Bible might be useful
• Access to national newspapers.