Curriculum and Assessment

Autumn

Crime and punishment

• Different religious teachings on the death penalty
• Different religious teachings on forgiveness
• Aims of punishment

4 mark questions

• Explaining contrasting beliefs
• Explaining contrasting practices
• Explaining how beliefs affect what religious people do, say and think

5 mark questions

• Explaining beliefs and using a quote from a holy person or text to support this

12 mark questions

• Explaining arguments for and against their opinion
• Explaining strengths and weaknesses of arguments
• Reaching a justified conclusion

Ethics

• Absolute and relative morality
• Animal rights
• Organ transplants
• Fertility treatments
• Equality
• Helping the poor

4 mark questions

5 mark questions

12 mark questions

Spring

GCSE AQA Religious Studies A: Muslim practices

• Five Pillars of Sunni Islam and the Ten Obligatory Acts of Shi’a Islam
• Shahadah
• Salah
• Zak’ah

4, 5 and 12 mark questions

GCSE AQA Religious Studies A: Muslim practices

• Sawm
• Hajj
• Id-ul-Fitr, Id-ul-Adha, The Day of Ashura
• Jihad

4, 5 and 12 mark questions

Summer

GCSE AQA Religious Studies A: Christian beliefs and teachings

• The nature of God
• The Trinity
• Different beliefs about the Genesis creation story
• The afterlife

4, 5 and 12 mark questions

GCSE AQA Religious Studies A: Christian beliefs and teachings

• The incarnation
• Jesus’ crucifixion, resurrection and ascension
• Sin
• Means of salvation
• The role of Jesus in salvation

4, 5 and 12 mark questions

Autumn

Spring

See insight for a checklist of what your child should revise

This will be put on insight by your child’s teacher close to the assessment.

1,2,4,5 and 12 mark questions

Summer

See insight for a checklist of what your child should revise

This will be put on insight by your child’s teacher close to the assessment.

1,2,4,5 and 12 mark questions

Test your child on the definition of key terms on the knowledge organisers for each topic.

Test your child on quotes from scripture on the knowledge organisers for each topic.

Command words:

• Explain – give a point and then develop it
• Influence – how does this belief change what they will do or say or believe in their life today?
• Evaluate – Give 2 explained points for the statement, give 2 explained points against the statement and then explain which viewpoint you think is the strongest/you find the most convincing.
• Contrasting – from a different point of view
• Similar –from the same point of view

Revision guides for GCSE content:

• CGP GCSE Religious Studies: AQA A revision guide Grade 9-1 GCSE Religious Studies: AQA A Revision Guide with Online Edition | CGP Books
• AQA GCSE Religious Studies A: Christianity and Islam Revision Guide AQA GCSE Religious Studies A: Christianity and Islam Revision Guide – The AQA Bookshop

Revision websites for GCSE content:

• The nature of God and Jesus in Christianity – BBC Bitesize The nature of God – The nature of God and Jesus in Christianity – GCSE Religious Studies Revision – AQA – BBC Bitesize
• Key beliefs in Christianity – BBC Bitesize Creation – Key beliefs in Christianity – GCSE Religious Studies Revision – AQA – BBC Bitesize
• Muslim practices – BBC Bitesize The Five Pillars of Islam – Practices in Islam – GCSE Religious Studies Revision – AQA – BBC Bitesize