Course Outline/Overview 

Key Stage 3

This is a core subject for all Key stage 3 (Years 7, 8 and 9) students. The course covers the following topics over the three years

• Authority
• The Creation/Evolution Origins debate
• The Human Condition -Sin.
• The Founders- Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph
• The Exodus- Moses
• The Law and the Covenant- Moses
• The Judges- Samson Deborah
• The Kingdom of God- Ruth, David
• The Exile- Esther, Daniel
• The Messiah- Isaiah
• The Nativity- Incarnation
• The Early Church- Paul
• The Modern Church- Martin Luther King

Key Stage 4

Beyond Key Stage 3 we offer a Religious Studies GCSE to Years 10 and 11 covering the following topics:

• Marks Gospel - Who is Jesus, Discipleship, Conflict and Argument, Death and Resurrection
• Philosophy and Ethics- Believing in God, Life after Death Issues, Marriage and the Family, Social Harmony.

Key Stage 5

All 6th form students cover a core Philosophy, Theology and Ethics course. The course covers the following topics over the two years

• Philosophy, Worldviews, Liberty and Censorship, Work and Rest, The family, Medical Ethics, Crime and Punishment, Personal Principles
• Students may also elect to pursue Religious Studies at A-Level. The course covers the following topics over the two years.
• Philosophy of Religion- The Cosmolological Argument, The Teleological Argument, Miracles, Suffering, The ontological Argument, Religious Experience, Atheism, Life after Death, Religious Language
• New Testament- Fourth Gospel- Women in John, Discipleship, I am sayings, Prologue.