Curriculum Context

There is no National Curriculum for religious education, or nationally set Programmes of Study. Agreed syllabuses for religious education are produced by local authorities following national government guidelines. These indicate that a number of religions have to be covered, with particular emphasis on Christianity but also including others such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism. The attainment targets in the guidelines are:

AT1: learning about religions.

AT2: learning from religion (i.e. personal learning coming out of discussion of ideas, issues and principles).

These suggestions as a whole are best suited to Key Stage 4, but some tasks can also be used at Key Stage 3.