RE isn’t just learning about different religions!

It gives you the opportunity to… Think about the big questions in life. Think about what different religions believe, say & do. Think about your own opinions & feelings……it’s not just about life here in West Mon, it’s about thinking about the world & our place in

it.RE helps you to improve all of your key skills, but especially… Communication – there’s lots of discussion; we want to hear about what you know & what you think. Working with other people – you get to do things as part of big & small groups. ICT – you have many opportunities to use ICT to present work in different ways & to research information. Improving your own learning & performance – there is lots of RE project work, where we look at how you’ve done & how you can improve next time…

…so, you’re also improving your skills, that will help you for the rest of your life.

Year 7 & 8 - Use our RE web pages……to remind you of class work, to catch up if

you miss a lesson or to remind you of homework. Click on the blue topic titles to take you to the PowerPoints that you need.

In Year 7 at West Mon you will have RE lessons as part of ‘Explore’.

‘Explore’ is a new & exciting way of studying RE, History, Geography, PSHE & English altogether, with one teacher.

So, in RE in Year 7 Explore, you will be learning about:

All about me – Who

am I?

Power: Religious leaders

Changing lifestyles: Making &

looking afterthe world

What you are

like

What your family are like

Where you came from

What God says you are like

Who your ancestors

were

Control: Persecution

What is persecutio

n?

People who are persecuted for their

beliefs

Responses to persecution

Who are religious leaders?

Who are our

religious community

leaders?

Do religious leaders still have

power?

How do religions believe the world was made?

How are we meant to look after our world?

Click on the blue titles to see the lesson PowerPoints for each topic – helpful if you miss a lesson or have forgotten what your homework

is!

In Year 8 at West Mon some pupils will have RE lessons as part of ‘Explore’ & other pupils

will have RE lessons on their timetable.However, everybody in Year 8 will be

studying the same topics in RE. These topics are:

Rights

Our world: Pilgrimage

Towards a better world: People Vs.

The EnvironmentWhich is more important?

The Universal Declaration of Human

RightsWhat are

rights?

Martin Luther

King Jnr

Look at the work of faith based charities

Conflict: Religious symbols

Important symbols in

society & life

Important religious symbols

What is symbolic language?

Special places in our lives

What is pilgrimage

?

Places of religious pilgrimage & why

they are important

Looking at the lives of Mother Teresa & Chico

Mendés

Designing a stained glass

window

Religious symbols & conflict

Are people or the environment more

important?Click on the blue titles to see the lesson

PowerPoints for each topic – helpful if you miss a lesson or have forgotten what your homework

is!

In Year 9 at West Mon pupils will have RE lessons on their timetables.

The topics that pupils will be studying are:

Diversity: God is…

Power: Religious

celebrations &festivals

Sustainability:Do religious communities

have the power topositively affect the

world & theenvironment?

What do different religions believe that

God is like?How do believers know more about God?

How do believers communicate with

God?

Choices & Decisions: The journey

of life

A religious journey of life

Religious marriage customs

Jewish religious festivals

Muslim religious festivals

Christian religious festivals

Religious places of worship

Religious birth customs

Religious death customs

The influence of religious communities to bring about environmental

change

Religious ‘coming of

age’ customs

Looking at religious festivals in different

cultures

In Years 10 & 11 at West Mon, RE is slightly different…

Instead of having a lesson once a week, you have a lesson once a fortnight. You study RE by looking at some of life’s BIG questions.

To help us do this, (& to keep RE in Years 10 & 11 relevant & up-to-date) we use parts of‘BBC e-clips: RE’.

So, in Years 10 & 11 we look at the following topics in RE:

‘Does death give life meaning?’

‘Selfish or selfless?’

‘What are the benefits of faith?’

‘Who is responsible for bringing about change?’

‘What makes us human?’