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Mrs A Davies-Godsell, Head of Beliefs & Values
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This new subject includes the following areas:
Personal, Social, & Health Education, Religious Education, Citizenship
PHSE |
How & why MY decisions & choices effect me |
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What I believe, why I believe it & how I show it
What others belive, why they believe it & how they show it |
Citizenship |
How and why MY decisions & choices effect others |
Beliefs & Values
PSHE RE Citizenship
What do I believe?
What do I value?
What do others believe?
What do others value?
Trip to the Mosque in Gloucester
 
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Pictures of typical B&V lessons
Year 7 students taking part in a Drugs Awareness talk
given by InfoBUZZ
Beliefs & Values at GCSE Core
(WJEC GCSE Short Course RS Specification B/Option A: Religion and Life issues).
B&V is a very important part of the core curriculum as it is in the subject area that pupils receive their Religious Education and aspects of their Personal Social Education and Citizenship provision.
Beliefs & Values prepares pupils for every day life and post-16 choices by enabling them to increase their self-awareness, decision-making and personal responsibility, through exploration of topical and ethical issues.
Pupils will take a Short Course in GCSE Religious Studies, which will enable them to engage with these issues and receive a qualification. Topics include:
| Relationships |
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Issues of love, marriage and divorce |
| Is it Fair? |
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Issues of justice and equality |
| Looking for Meaning |
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Issues about God, life and death |
| Identify & Belonging |
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Issues of choice, personal and corporate identity |
| Our World |
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Exploring creation and our place in the world. |
Religious Studies at GCSE Level
AQA Religious Studies B.
Have you wondered why we are here, what is your purpose for being here? Philosophy is the study of the meaning of life. It considers how life should be lived and why we are here.
Philosophies studied:
? Christianity (those who follow the teachings of Jesus Christ)
? Islam (the religion of Muslims)
? Your beliefs about life
Ethics is the study of right and wrong, how we make decisions in life and what
influences our decisions. Examples of topics studied:
• Abortion
• Sex, Love & Marriage
• Prejudice
• Justice
• Sexism
• Racism
• War and Peace
• The Environment
Assessment is by 2 exams, one at the end of Year 10 and one at the end of Year 11; no coursework.
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