Religious Studies

Head of Department

Ms Linda Gray

Email: linda.gray@grammar.sch.gg

Mr Paul Montague

Email: paul.montague@grammar.sch.gg

Ms Emma Stebbings

Email: emma.stebbings@grammar.sch.gg

Key stage 4

All students in Years 10 and 11 take a short GCSE course in Religious Studies. The purpose of the course is to give you the opportunity to think deeply and carefully about some of the most important philosophical and moral questions humans ask.

The course we have chosen deals with the following areas:

  • Personal and Family Issues: sexual relationships, marriage and divorce

  • Matters of Life and Death: abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment

  • Environmental Ethics: animals rights, conservation issues

  • Equality: social justice, diversity, racism,

  • War and Peace: Just War theory and pacifism


Whatever your beliefs or attitudes, this course will engage you and make you question your assumptions and those of your society.

The course is assessed by one exam lasting 1½ hours.


“This is no small matter. We are discussing how we ought to live.” Socrates.