Ethics & Philosophy
Religious studies: Philosophy and Ethics helps students to gain a good understanding of different cultural and world views and learn how to academically evaluate ethical, philosophical and religious claims.
Students will study a variety of religious traditions and other worldviews, including the Abrahamic faiths, dharmic faiths such ads Hinduism and also Humanism and atheistic understandings of world issues. Students will gain substantive knowledge in different areas of study such as cosmology, eschatology, prejudice, theology, wealth in the world, human ethics and more. Students will also be equipped with the academic tools to explain and evaluate different worldviews and assess their own views and justifications.
Students will encounter difficult questions and will learn how to clearly give their point of view and how to academically critique those of other people. This will enable them to form their own views rationally and with an emphasis on using evidence.
At Key Stage 4, we offer GCSE Religious Studies. This builds on the learning that students have done at Key Stage 3 and develops their skills further. We study Christianity and Hinduism, alongside the Themes ‘Religion and life’, ‘Crime and Punishment’, ‘Human Rights and Social Justice’ and ‘Families and Relationships’.
At Key Stage 5, we offer A Level Philosophy. This rigorous course is designed to develop the students understanding of key philosophical arguments, how to deconstruct them and evaluate them successfully. This course gives students a fantastic opportunity to use skills that they have built on from Year 7 and apply these to some of the biggest philosophical questions in history, such as ‘what is the mind?’, ‘what is knowledge?’ and ‘is God real?’.
KS3 2022-2023
7 | Cosmology | Judaism | Christianity | Islam | Prejudice | Prejudice |
8 | Judaism | Islam | LAD | LAD | Wealth | Wealth |
9 | Suffering | Suffering | War | Human ethic | Human ethic | NA |
2023-2024 Onwards
7 | Cosmology | Judaism | Christianity | Islam | Prejudice | Prejudice |
8 | Hinduism | Hinduism | LAD | LAD | Wealth | Wealth |
9 | Suffering | Suffering | War | Human ethic | Human ethic | NA |
KS4
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
9 |
|
|
|
|
| Human Rights |
10 | Ch beliefs | Ch practices | Crime | Hindu beliefs | Revision | Hindu practices |
11 | Religion + life | Families | Revision | Revision |
| 6 |
KS5
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
12 | What is knowledge? | Perception as a source of knowledge | Reason as a source of knowledge | Reason as a source of knowledge | Limits of knowledge | Limits of knowledge |
| Normative ethical theories | Normative ethical theories | Normative ethical theories | Meta-ethics
| Meta-ethics
| Meta-ethics
|
13 | Dualism
| Dualism | Physicalism | Physicalism | Functionalism | Functionalism |
| Attributes of God | Arguments for the existence of God | The problem of evil | Religious language |
|
|