Religious Education
Year 9
Half Term 1
Sexual Health and Relationship
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Students begin year 9 with a topic on sexual health and healthy relationships lessons. Due to recent current affairs around child sexual exploitation and the dangers that girls in particular are facing around keeping themselves safe/educating boys on how avoiding inappropriate language and actions, this topic really focuses on these issues. We have an external agency ‘Spectrum’ who deliver lessons around relationships and consent, risky behaviour, contraception and sexually transmitted infections.
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Sexual Harassment – Unwanted sexual attention
Coercive behaviour – making someone do something they do not want to
Consent – Giving permission for something to happen
Contraception – Ways to prevent the transmission of STI’s and pregnancies
STI’s – Sexually Transmitted Infections
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Students will receive homework once every three weeks through Teams/Sharepoint. You can support your child by making sure that this is completed. You can also support your child by discussing what they have been learning about during the lesson and by discussing current affairs that link to religion. Encourage your child to come to school with any questions that they have and if they follow a religion, encourage your child to talk about it in lessons.
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Half Term 2
Peace and Conflict
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Year 9 takes a more thematic approach to RE and tries to focus on current and world events as well as events from history but with a religious view in mind. Students will look at the causes of war, religious attitudes to war and the way in which religious organisation respond to victim of war. Students will also look at religious group that refuse to take part in war at all.
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Just War Theory – A set of rules that must be adhered to before war can be declared
Lesser Jihad/Holy War – religious reasons for going to war
Pacifism – Refusal to become involved in violence
Justice – a fair consequence for actions
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Students will receive homework once every three weeks through Teams/Sharepoint. You can support your child by making sure that this is completed. You can also support your child by discussing what they have been learning about during the lesson and by discussing current affairs that link to religion. Encourage your child to come to school with any questions that they have and if they follow a religion, encourage your child to talk about it in lessons.
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Half Term 3
Prejudice and Discrimination
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This topic focusses on three main areas of prejudice and discrimination i.e., homophobia, racism and sexism as these are the most prevalent issues in our society at the moment. Students are encouraged to discuss any experiences they may have had in these areas as well as looking a specific examples like racism in football, the Stephen Lawrence murder, Malala Yousefzai and homophobia across a variety of different areas. Historically, students have been passionate about this topic and have really engaged in what could be done to prevent such things.
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Racism – treating someone in a negative way because of skin colour
Sexism – treating someone in a negative way because of gender
Homophobia – treating someone in a negative way because of sexuality
Protected Characteristics – Personal things that make someone who they are e.g., gender/race/age/disability
Human Rights – Basic things that humans are entitled to that a country should ensure provision of
Golden Rule – treating others the ways that you would expect them to treat you
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Students will receive homework once every three weeks through Teams/Sharepoint. You can support your child by making sure that this is completed. You can also support your child by discussing what they have been learning about during the lesson and by discussing current affairs that link to religion. Encourage your child to come to school with any questions that they have and if they follow a religion, encourage your child to talk about it in lessons.
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Half Term 4
Religion, Relationships, and Families
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In this unit, students will study the ways in which different types of family are formed and how they are different from traditional families. Students will look at the religious views on marriage and divorce and how the parents give their children a religious upbringing in some situations. Students will also look at gender roles in different traditions and evaluate how these traditions have changed over time.
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Marriage – Legal/religious contract between two people
Divorce – The legal dissolution of a marriage
Cohabitation – Living together without being married
Conjugal roles – the way that roles in the home are divided according to gender
Annulment – A Catholic concept of reversing a marriage
Civil Partnership – A legal ceremony to provide recognition in law for same sex couples
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Students will receive homework once every three weeks through Teams/Sharepoint. You can support your child by making sure that this is completed. You can also support your child by discussing what they have been learning about during the lesson and by discussing current affairs that link to religion. Encourage your child to come to school with any questions that they have and if they follow a religion, encourage your child to talk about it in lessons.
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Half Term 5
Medical Ethics
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Different views on aspects of Medical Ethics including religious views
Students begin this scheme of work within Half term 5 with a topic on fertility treatments and the different views held by different religions. Their learning in KS3 will be a good base for understanding religious attitudes to fertility treatments, however this topic will look at specific religious teachings on this in great detail.
This unit builds on the sacred texts that have already been studied and focusses on the idea of predestination which has been covered in small detail in Christianity and Islam (year 7).
This unit of work is finished off with lessons where the topics discuss the idea of ‘playing God’ and interfering with the natural order of Gods creation. Again, building on the prior knowledge about the power and authority of God and the idea that ‘He’ is a superior being who wants the best for his creation.
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Fertility: ‘the quality of being fertile; productiveness’
Ethics: ‘moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity’
IVF: In vitro fertilisation (IVF) ‘…is one of several techniques available to help people with fertility problems have a baby’
Cloning: ‘… is the process of producing individual organisms with identical or virtually identical DNA, either by natural or artificial means’
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Students will receive homework once every three weeks through Teams / SharePoint. You can support your child by making sure that this is completed. You can also support your child by discussing what they have been learning about during the lesson and by discussing current affairs that link to religion. Encourage your child to come to school with any questions that they have and if they follow a religion, encourage your child to talk about it in lessons.
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Half Term 6
Crime and Punishment
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In this unit, students will look at a variety of different aspects of crime and punishment starting with the causes of crime. This links to class, level of wealth, environment amongst many other things. Students will look at the ways in which both young offenders and adult criminals are treated and will also look at religious views on the treatment of criminals including arguments for and against the death penalty.
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Crime – Something that breaks a law
Punishment – A consequence for breaking the law
Young Offender – Someone under the age of 18 who breaks the law
Corporal Punishment – painful punishment e.g., stoning/whipping
Capital Punishment – The Death Penalty
Prison – A secure place for prisoners to pay back their debt top society
Parole – Early release from prison for goo behaviour
Probation – A suspended sentence and a meeting with a probation officer
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Students will receive homework once every three weeks through Teams/Sharepoint. You can support your child by making sure that this is completed. You can also support your child by discussing what they have been learning about during the lesson and by discussing current affairs that link to religion. Encourage your child to come to school with any questions that they have and if they follow a religion, encourage your child to talk about it in lessons.
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