Religious Education · KS3 to A Level · £6.99
Religiously Literate,
Confident Schools
Religious education department handbook — KS3 to A Level
What religious literacy actually is, how it is built from Year 7 to Year 13, and what separates a pupil who knows about religions from one who can reason about them.
£6.99The whole playbook, 88 pages
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- 1 Knowledge
- 2 Diversity
- 3 Sources
- 4 Enquiry
- 5 Evaluation
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Religious education has no national syllabus, and much of what is said about the law that governs it is wrong. The book starts there: what an Act or a funding agreement requires, what the law leaves open, which document sets the syllabus in each type of school, and what Ofsted has and has not said about the subject.
This booklet is written for the whole department at once. A head of RE can read it as a curriculum and department-review document, starting from the leadership part and the department self-audit; a teacher can open it at the page they need before a lesson; a teacher for whom RE is not the first subject can begin with the first-term plan. It describes England only.
It organises the subject around five pillars: knowledge, diversity, sources, enquiry and evaluation. They are our own grouping of content that the documents teachers already use name. No inspectorate, awarding body or government department requires them, and the book says so. Seven religions and worldviews have a page each, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Humanism with other non-religious worldviews, written to show the diversity inside each tradition.
The GCSE and A Level part compares ten specifications from AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and WJEC Eduqas side by side, each at the version we read: the code, the papers, the marks, the command words and the choices a school makes at entry. Fifteen tools print straight onto A4, from a curriculum audit to a four-answer moderation set and a board comparison sheet.
Every quotation from a specification, an Act or an Ofsted document was checked against a saved copy, and the book keeps four things visibly apart: what the law says, what a board requires, what Ofsted has said, and what we recommend. The last four pages say how the quotations were checked and list every source. This is an independent publication. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by the Department for Education, Ofqual, Ofsted or any awarding body.
- Written to
- Ten GCSE and A Level religious studies specifications from AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and WJEC Eduqas, compared at their stated versions
- Intended for
- heads of RE, teachers in the department and non-specialists teaching RE
- Extent
- 88 pages · 84 sections
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