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Religious Education

Religious Education (RE) is an important element of the curriculum at Paddington Academy.   Learning about and also from religion helps to prepare students for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life within British society by actively promoting positive attitudes to cultural and faith diversity.  The purposes of RE are to help students:
• identify and consider ways in which humans have answered questions about the meaning and purpose of life.
• objectively engage into the spirit of different religious traditions and to understand their beliefs and practices, and their influence on social and cultural life.
• develop the ability to interpret and appreciate religious imagery and expression
• develop a thoughtful and creative attitude to their own experience, and to formulate their own values.

Key Stage 3

The Paddington Academy RE Department follows the Westminster Locally Agreed Syllabus ‘Living Difference’.  In Religious Education lessons at Paddington Academy students are actively encouraged to learn about different religions through enquiring into their beliefs and practices.  Student are also invited to think about issues and questions that religion raises, for example is their life after death, and to consider and express their own responses to these issues.

Below are some examples of media resources that are used in KS3 Religious Education lessons  

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Key Stage 4

GCSE Religious Studies
Students who choose to study the GCSE Religious Studies option undertake the WJBE RS Specification B.  The subject is taken over two years and covers study divided into two units which are outlined in the table below. 
Assessment
Assessment for this course is 100% examination:
 Written Paper Unit 1: 1 hour 45 minutes 100%, 96 marks
Written Paper Unit 2: 1 hour 45 minutes 100%, 96 marks
Both papers comprise four structured questions consisting of visual stimuli used as a basis for a series of paragraph and extended writing answers.

Trips
Student s will also have the opportunity to undertake trips during the course that relate to their studies.  Recently on January 25th 2010, 14 students accompanied by two teachers attended a Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St. John’s Wood to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.  Students had the opportunity to meet a Holocaust survivor and ask them questions about their experiences as well as being given a tour of the Synagogue and the opportunity to learn more about Jewish religious practices.

RE Stop Days
The RE Stop Day program was introduced at the beginning of the 2009/10 school year to be a more engaging and innovative alternative to regular RE lessons.  The program gives students the opportunity to engage in RE in a much more interactive and in-depth way than could be achieved in single lessons.  The first Stop Day took place on December 17th 2009 with the theme of War and Peace, and was an overwhelming success.  The next day is planned for March and will give students the opportunity to encounter believers from different faiths.  

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