Religious
education at BRGS follows the Lan-cashire Agreed syllabus which
is operative in a number of our partner primaries. Thus work embarked
upon by a Year 7 pupil builds natu-rally upon work already carried
out in his/her primary school. It is believed that Religious Education
has a key role in helping pupils to develop a framework of values,
attitudes and beliefs for themselves, a respect for religious beliefs
and an appreciation of other races' religions and ways of life.
Religious Education is a multi-faith course,
but with the majority of the time spent in any one year studying
Christianity; the other religions studied in Year 7 include
Judaism, Hinduism and Sikhism. Religion will be introduced
as a living experience and pupils are encouraged to explore it through
beliefs, values, practices and those questions, sometimes termed
"ultimate questions", which arise at the heart of general
human experience and engage people throughout the world at the deepest
level.
The theme of Year 7 is Community and pupils will consider what this
term means to each faith group. Year 7 is a vital year for us since
it is during this time that staff within the department try to lay
the foundations upon which the rest of their Religious Education
is based. To this end the department aims to help pupils to explore
the question "What does it mean to be human?"
Pupils will encounter a variety of teaching methods ranging from
individual to active group work. They will be encouraged to question,
explore, examine, and develop their powers of reasoning. This
will be conducted in an open, critical, but sympathetic manner.
HOMEWORK
will be set on a weely basis and generally given in the next day,
unless instructed otherwise. Homeworks like lessons, will vary in
tasks, ranging from descriptive reporting to research and investigation.
It is not the purpose of Religious Education to instruct in a particular
faith, but rather to support students as they reflect upon, develop
and affirm their own beliefs, values and attitudes as they explore
and share human experiences and the place and purpose of religion
in contem-porary society. This is the reason why so many students
find this subject worth studying at examination.
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