Our R.E. curriculum aims to engage students in a five-year learning journey of knowledge and understanding of religion. We aim to set students up to succeed by making clear from the start our learning objectives, expectations and the reasoning for them.
We aim to teach our students to enquire and learn about religion in an interactive way. We aim to use low-stake quizzing, feedback, collaboration and student-centred resources to close gaps that our students have from KS2. We aim to monitor students' subject specific vocabulary and to embed literacy and reading into every lesson. We aim to build opportunities for extended writing into our units. We aim to enable our students to fully explore ideas and improve literacy skills and subject vocabulary. We aim to build more time into lessons for students to reflect on their learning and their own personal beliefs. We aim to use big questions to build on students’ current knowledge and understanding of world issues and the varying views surrounding them.
We aim to promote British values and to embed kindness and empathy.
We aim for our curriculum to be rich in more than just knowledge.
We aim for learning to take place through art and music.
We aim for students to experience our curriculum.
We aim to teach students to be knowledgeable and respectful of the content that we cover.
We aim that students will choose to put this in to practice both in the community and in society.
We aim for students to be passionate about the subject, enjoy lessons, and know that they are constantly making progress. We aim that our RE curriculum gives our student the tools, knowledge and confidence to carry on their learning journey throughout their time at Pilton Community College.
Key Stage 3
We implement our Year 7 curriculum through 6 units of work. Each unit has a separate overview that includes further details of aims, learning objectives and justifications for sequencing. These are stored in the shared area. Each lesson has a PowerPoint aiming to facilitate an engaging and thought provoking lesson. All resources are stored on a shared area that all teachers of RE and designated members of SLT have access to. The aim is for students to progress through a unit per half term. Units will be reviewed throughout the year and can be adjusted based on student progress and engagement.
Our Year 8 curriculum uses six units of work to build on the knowledge and understanding that students have gained from our Year 7 curriculum. Each unit has a separate overview that includes further details of aims, learning objectives and justifications for sequencing. These are stored in the shared area. Each lesson has a PowerPoint to facilitate an engaging and thought provoking lesson. All resources are stored on a shared area to which all teachers of RE and designated members of SLT have access. The aim is for students to progress through a unit per half term. This is flexible and the sequencing of the curriculum has taken this in to account. Units are reviewed throughout the year and can be adjusted based on student progress and engagement.
Our Year 9 curriculum uses four units of work to build on the knowledge and understanding that students have gained from our Year 7 & 8 curriculum. Each unit has a separate overview that includes further details of aims, learning objectives and justifications for sequencing. These are stored in the shared area. Each lesson has a PowerPoint to facilitate an engaging and thought provoking lesson. All resources are stored on a shared area that all teachers of RE and designated members of SLT have access to. The aim is for students to progress through a unit per term although this is flexible and the sequencing of the curriculum has taken this in to account. Units will be reviewed throughout the year and can be adjusted based on student progress and engagement.
Key Stage 4
Our Year 10/11 curriculum uses eight units of work following the AQA Religious Studies A 8062 course to build on the knowledge and understanding that students have gained from our KS3 curriculum. Each unit has a separate overview that includes further details of aims, learning objectives and justifications for sequencing. These are stored in the shared area. Each lesson has a Power Point to facilitate an engaging and thought provoking lesson. All resources are stored on a shared area that all teachers of RE and designated members of SLT have access to. The aim is for students to progress through a unit per term although this is flexible and the sequencing of the curriculum has taken this in to account. Units will be reviewed throughout the year and can be adjusted based on student progress and engagement.
Cultural Capital
Outside visitors from local community | Including Youth Pilton co-operative | Visits from Gideons (assembly and gift of New Testament) | Pilton Church visits – Rev. Sanders for marriage and baptism services | Children’s Remembrance Service, Rock park | Visit to Exeter cathedral and Exeter Mosque | External speakers from charities | Barnstaple Magistrates visit and mock trial.
Curriculum Documents
Our spiralling curriculum has been designed to ensure topics are revisited throughout KS3 and KS4. We begin and end each unit of work with Progress Trackers and Learning Journeys to ensure gaps in knowledge are covered by all students and students are aware of links between units. We begin each lesson with a do it now task which supports knowledge retrieval.
KS3 tests have the same structure, scaffolded and a feedback lesson is completed after each assessment. KS4 students are supported to succeed through the use of the BVT revision folders on the school website following the Revise-Recall-Practice model. We also provide all learners with a work book to ensure all knowledge gaps can be acknowledged and appropriate action taken.
SEND and PP students are highlighted clearly on the ClassCharts seating plan and annotated to ensure helpful strategies are used to help our learners. Passports and EHCP information are available in the teacher folder and used alongside our schemes of work to include appropriate support resources and activities.
