Beliefs and Values
We teach you how to think, not what to think.
As part of the Humanities Faculty, the Beliefs and Values team at Okehampton College encourages students to see their learning as an integral part of their wider college education.
It is hoped, that through studying a range of worldviews and issues, students will be enabled to develop a sense of their own beliefs and values; their own spirituality and place in the world. The subject also contributes to promoting a society in which people understand and respect others beliefs and values.
As part of the Humanities Faculty, the Beliefs and Values team at Okehampton College encourages students to see their learning as an integral part of their wider college education.
It is hoped, that through studying a range of worldviews and issues, students will be enabled to develop a sense of their own beliefs and values; their own spirituality and place in the world. The subject also contributes to promoting a society in which people understand and respect others beliefs and values.
Programme of Study: Key Stage 3
- Year 7: Autumn Term, Beliefs and Concepts, Citizenship – The Island; Spring Term, Rights and Responsibilities; Summer Term, How do people show their spirituality?
- Year 8: Autumn Term, Religion and Young People; Spring Term, Global Issues, Religious Stereotypes – Islam [Who are Muslims?]; Summer Term, Ultimate Questions – Religion and Science.
- Year 9 GCSE Religious Studies AQA A: All students study for a full course GCSE: this enables them to express their own personal responses to fundamental questions and issues as well as showing knowledge of religious views. The subject is examined by two examinations in year 11.
- Year 9 topics - Christian Beliefs, Buddhist Beliefs, Christian Practices and Buddhist Practices.
Programme of Study: Key Stage 4 - Year 10 and 11
Religion, peace and conflict; Religion, crime and punishment; Religion, human rights and social justice; Relationships and families; Buddhist practices.
Programme of Study: Key Stage 5
A Level Religious Studies – Philosophy and Ethics
- Philosophy of Religion: Ancient philosophical influences; Arguments about the existence or non-existence of God; The nature and impact of religious experience; The challenge for religious belief of the problem of evil; Ideas about the nature of God; Issues in religious language.
- Religious Ethics: Ethical theories - Situation Ethics, Kant, Natural Law, Utilitarianism, Absolutism and Relativism; Applied Ethics – Euthanasia; Business Ethics; Sexual Ethics; Ethical Language and Thought; Debates surrounding the significant idea of conscience.
