Gaynes School Language College
RE
Curriculum
The RE department comprises of two full time members of staff within the Humanities faculty.
In year 7 and 9 all students have one lesson of RE/PSHE per week and in year 8 one lesson of RE following the Havering Agreed Syllabus. In year 10 and 11 all students take a short course GCSE (Edexcel).
Programme of Study
Key Stage 3
Year 7
- Introduction to RE/ Believing in God
- Code Breaking
- What Happens when we die? / Ultimate Questions
Year 8
- Worship
- Evil and Suffering
- War and Peace
- Prejudice
- Environment
Year 9
- Ways of Finding the truth
- Science and Religion
- Moral Issues
Key Stage 4
All students have one lesson per week and complete a GCSE RE Short Course EDEXCEL Unit B Religion and Life from A Christian Perspective. The course is assessed through an external examination. The course consists of four sections:
- Believing in God
- Matters of Life and Death
- Marriage and the Family
- Religion and Community Cohesion
There is an opportunity for students to take a twilight course to complete a full course.
The twilight course offered is Religion and Society. The course is four sections:
- Religion Rights and responsibilities
- Religion Environmental and Medical Issues
- Religion Peace and Conflict
- Religion Crime and Punishment