Religious Studies (RS)
Religious Studies (RS)
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Competencies
Competencies
C1: Specialise
C2: Explain
C3: Analyse
C4: Evaluate
Course Overview
Course Overview
In Year 7 RS, students explore:
Origins of religion: Belief and truth; Religion in our world; Early forms of religion; Indigenous religion; Death and ancestor worship.
Judaism: Monotheism; Abraham; Moses; Passover; Shabbat; Jewish identity reading project.
Christianity: Jesus' birth- the nativity; Jesus' life- teachings and miracles; Jesus' death- salvation and resurrection. The Trinity. Being Christian Today research project.
Islam: Mohammad- his life, his example, his succession; The Mosque and the Ummah; Five Pillars of Islam research project.
Ancient Greek thinking: The oracle at Delphi; the Greek gods; Aristotle and causation; Epistemology.
Assessment
Assessment
Students will be informally assessed throughout the year for their class and home work, marking will usually enlist the CHS Learning Habits. Students will have many oppotunities to practise the various competencies. There are four formal assessments which are explicitly measured against the competencies. Each of these formal assessments takes the form of an extended written task and each is assessment open book, the intention is to asses ability to use information to craft a discursive piece of writing, rather than test memory. Students practise revision and recall in low stakes knowledge audits as part of their homework schedule in RS.
Autumn 1: Origins assessment. (Competencies 1-3)
Autumn 2: Judaism assessment. (Competencies 1-4)
Spring: Christianity assessment. (Competencies 1-4)
Summer: Islam assessment. (Competencies 1-4)
Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading
Non Fiction
Holloway, R. A little history of religion (2017)
Leyson, L. The Boy on the Wooden Box (2013)
Fiction
David, K. What We're Scared of (2021)
For even more extension, see the RS reading page on the CHS extension website.
Religious Studies and The Big Questions
Religious Studies and The Big Questions
The Religious Studies course explores questions of identity. For example, the identity of religious believers. This is perhaps especially clear in our Jewish identity reading project, at which time students consider how antisemitism challenges the identity of the characters and how the characters establish their identities in the face of this experience.
We also consider questions of truth. For example, we begin the year by asking what "truth" and "knowledge" are. We also consider the difference between "belief in" and "belief that".
Staff Contacts
Staff Contacts
Ms Rebecca Lothian (Head of Religious Studies)
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