RELIGION AND CITIZENSHIP (RC)

Leading Staff and Responsibilities

Miss M Jones – Teaching and Learning Coordinator

Mrs A Duffy – Assistant Headteacher – Careers Lead, SEND, SLT link

Mrs R Ramsden – Assistant Headteacher – Designated Safeguarding Lead

Mrs P Birchall – WRL Coordinator – CEIAG Coordination

Mr P Shelton – Destinations (CEIAG)

Miss R Hitchen – Teacher of Religion and Citizenship

What is Religion and Citizenship?

The Religion and Citizenship curriculum has been carefully designed to provide a flexible, dynamic, broad and balanced scheme of learning across all year groups. It is ambitious, age appropriate and spirals across both key stages. Our purpose is to provide every opportunity for our learners to be happy, healthy, engaged and successful citizens.

Our vision is not just to develop learner’s knowledge and understanding. It is also to enable them to investigate world views, express their ideas and respond to the world around them in an informed, rational and insightful way. We encourage leaners to make effective transitions, make positive learning and career choices and achieve economic well-being. The learning environment is RC provides opportunities for learners to safely explore, reflect and clarify their own values and attitudes on the complex and sometimes conflicting range of world views they encounter both now and in the future.

The RC curriculum has two strands, the first incorporates the Personal Social Health Education (PSHE), Citizenship, British Values, Character Education, SMSC, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Careers Education Information Advice and Guidance (CEIAG). The second strand incorporates Religious Education in both key stages.

RC is taught across both key stages for 1 hour per week. In addition, all students receive one 30min form time lesson each week on mental health and well-being education. The topics they explore include attitudes to mental health, promoting well-being, digital resilience, unhealthy and healthy coping strategies, dealing with change, managing exam pressure, reframing negative thinking and coping with grief. We also run awareness weeks during the academic year and fundraise for different charities linked to Mental Health and well-being e.g. Young Minds.

Year 7 content

• Introduction to Communities (Religious Education)

• Physical Health and Fitness

• Who was Jesus? (Religious Education)

• Healthy Relationships

• What does it mean to be Hindu? (Religious Education)

• Health and Wellbeing

• Living in the Wider World

Year 8 content

• Careers and Financial Choices

• Online and Media

• What does it mean to be Muslim? (Religious Education)

• Healthy Relationships

• Identity, Stereotypes and Equality

• What does it mean to be Buddhist? (Religious Education)

Year 9 content

• Animals and the Environment (Religious Education)

• Being Safe

• Identity, Respect and Relationships

• What does it mean to be Christian? (Religious Education)

• Living in the Wider World

• What does it mean to be Jewish? (Religious Education)

Year 10 content

• Religion, Crime and Punishment (Religious Education)

• Healthy Relationships

• Religion, Peace and Conflict (Religious Education)

• Health and Wellbeing

• The Existence of God and Revelation (Religious Education)

• Living in the Wider World

Y11 content

• Work and Careers

• Living in the Wider World

• Healthy Relationships

• Health and Wellbeing

• Revision and Study Skills

Eduqas Religious Studies

GCSE Religious Studies is an engaging and thought-provoking course that gives students the opportunity to explore some of the biggest questions facing individuals and society today. Students develop a detailed understanding of Christianity and Islam, alongside religious and non-religious perspectives on a range of contemporary moral, philosophical and ethical issues.

Students follow the Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies Route A course:

• Christianity: Beliefs and teachings and Practices

• Islam: Beliefs and teachings and Practices

• Issues of Relationships

• Issues of Life and Death

• Issues of Good and Evil

• Issues of Human Rights

The qualification is assessed entirely through written examinations:

• Component 1 – Religious, Philosophical and Ethical Studies in the Modern World

2-hour examination – 50% of the GCSE

• Component 2 – Christianity

1-hour examination – 25% of the GCSE

• Component 3 – Islam

1-hour examination – 25% of the GCSE