Key Stage 3

Curriculum Overview

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Year 7 Overview

Year 8 Overview

Year 9 Overview

 

GCSE skills:

  • Identify religious views
  • Analyse sources of wisdom and authority
  • Identify alternative religious views
  • Explain why there are different interpretations
  • Identify non-religious views
  • Explain non-religious views
  • Evaluate sources of wisdom and authority
  • Write a coherent essay

 

By the end of year 9, students should be able to:

  • Investigate different views on how faith may play a vital part in people’s lives and identity
  • Know and understand how sources of wisdom and authority influence views
  • Identify and begin to explain a diversity of views in a religious tradition
  • Understand how sources of wisdom and authority can be interpreted differently
  • Identify and begin to explain non-religious views
  • Explain reasons for non-religious views
  • Explain links between beliefs and practices
  • Write a structured essay with an introduction, paragraphs that contain an argument and counter argument and a conclusion and explain how sources of wisdom and authority influence beliefs and practices

 

By the end of year 8, students should be able to:

  • Know how religion affects what people do in their lives
  • Start to explain how sources of wisdom and authority affect practices
  • Identify denominational differences
  • Start to explain diversity within and between religions
  • Know that there is a variety of worldviews including non-religious views
  • Understand why people are not religious
  • Explain meanings of sources of wisdom and authority
  • Write structured, one sided paragraphs, followed by the counter argument in a consecutive paragraph, making reference to a source of wisdom and authority

 

By the end of year 7, students should be able to:

  • Have a sound knowledge base of the six major world faiths
  • Identify the sources of wisdom and authority for each religion
  • Understand that there is a diversity of views within a religion
  • Understand the how different interpretations are formed
  • Identify non-religious views
  • Understand why not all people are religious
  • State the meanings of sources of wisdom and authority
  • Write simple arguments followed by a counter argument