Religious Enquiry
The Religious Enquiry Department has approachable staff who provide innovative lessons and challenging activities.
Religious Enquiry:
- Encourages empathy, sensitivity and understanding in all pupils.
- Makes a crucial contribution to valuing diversity and challenging stereotypical views, prejudice and racism.
- Encourages pupils to value themselves and others
- Celebrates diversity in society by helping pupils understand similarities and differences
- Promotes self-awareness, respect, open-mindedness, appreciation and wonder.
- Offers opportunities for pupils to explore beliefs in a safe and questioning environment
Key Stage 3
Religious Enquiry is taught following the Hampshire Agreed Syllabus ," Living Difference", with Schemes of Work based on concepts following a five-part cycle of enquiry. With an emphasis on oral work and discussion, students conduct study on the six main world religions, through a variety of topics including ' Visions of Life', 'What Is Sacred?', 'Inspriational People' and 'The Holocaust'.
Key Stage 4
In years 9 and 10 pupils undertake a ‘Philosophy and Ethics’ Programme of Study, at the end of which there is the opportunity to take a Short Course GCSE examination. Modules studied include Human Relationships and Medical Ethics, Religion and Science and Good and Evil.
There is also the option to undertake a GCSE Full Course in Religious Studies, focusing on concepts of Beliefs, Worship, Pilgrimage, Sacred Texts, Denominations and Festivals of Christianity and Buddhism.