Religious STudies ~ Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 Curriculum Map

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

A level

Year 13

A level

Autumn (1)

Creation and Covenant

Creation and Covenant

How can I believe in God?

Judaism:

Jewish Practices

Applied Catholic Theology:

Life and death + Sin and forgiveness

Philosophy: Theme 1- Inductive Arguments for God’s existence

Theology: Theme 1 - Religious figures and sacred texts (Birth, resurrection and Bible)

Ethics: Theme 1 - Ethical Thought

Philosophy: Theme 3 - Religious Experience

Theology: Theme 3 - Social and historical developments (wealth and migration)

Ethics: Theme 1 - Ethical Thought

Half Term

Autumn (2)

Prophecy to Promise  

Prophecy to Promise

What is the dignity of the human person?

Foundational Catholic Theology:

Origins and meanings

Applied Catholic Theology:

 Sin and forgiveness

Philosophy: Theme 1 Deductive Arguments for God’s existence

Theology: Theme 1 - Religious figures and sacred texts (Bible and the early Church)

Ethics: Theme 2 - Deontological Ethics

Philosophy: Theme 3 - Miracles

Theology: Theme 3 - Social and historical developments (secularisation and science)

Ethics: Theme 3 - Teleological Ethics

Christmas

Spring (1)

Galilee to Jerusalem  

Galilee to Jerusalem

What happens when you die?

Foundational Catholic Theology:

Origins and meanings

Applied Catholic Theology:

 Sin and forgiveness

GCSE Revision

Philosophy: Theme 2 - The Problem of Evil

Theology: Theme 2 - Religious Concepts = The nature of God and the Trinity

Ethics: Theme 2 - Deontological Ethics

Philosophy: Theme 4 - Problems with Religious Language

Theology: Theme 4 -Religious practices (Baptism and Eucharist)

Ethics: Theme 4 - Determinism and Freewill

Half term

Spring (2)

Desert to Garden

 Desert to Garden

What is war and peace?

Foundational Catholic Theology:

Good and Evil

GCSE Revision

Philosophy: Theme 2 - Challenges to religious belief - Freud and Jung

Theology: Theme 2 - Religious Concepts = The Atonement and Faith

Ethics: Theme 3 - Teleological Ethics

Philosophy: Theme 4 - Language Games

Theology: Theme 4 -Religious practices (Unification and poverty)

Ethics: Theme 4 - Determinism and Freewill

Easter break

Summer (1)

To the ends of the earth

To the ends of the earth

What does world faith in action look like?  

Foundational Catholic Theology:

Good and Evil

Exams

Philosophy: Theme 2 - Challenges to religious belief - New Atheism

Theology: Theme 2 - Religious Concepts = Key moral principles

Ethics: Theme 3 - Teleological Ethics

Revision and Exam preparation

Half term

Summer (2)

Dialogue and Encounter

Dialogue and Encounter

Judaism:

Jewish Beliefs

Applied Catholic Theology:

Life and death

Exam preparation and PPE’s