OLDYear 8 Curriculum Information Booklet 2017-2018
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Religious Education<br />
RE is taught to all students at Stretford Grammar School and in Year 8 the Trafford Agreed<br />
Syllabus for Religious Education 2016 is used as the basis for curriculum planning and<br />
delivery. Parents/carers have the right of withdrawal from the teaching of some or all of RE.<br />
Unit 1 – Do we need to prove God’s<br />
existence?<br />
Students will study the following key areas<br />
with reference to Christianity, Islam,<br />
Buddhism and non-religious beliefs<br />
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What isthe difference between facts,<br />
beliefs and opinions? How do we<br />
know anything at all?<br />
Why do Muslims believe in God? Do<br />
they believe God can be proved to<br />
exist?<br />
Why did the Buddha think belief in<br />
God was unimportant?<br />
In Buddhist thinking, what can save<br />
us from pain and suffering?<br />
Do Thomas Aquinas’ ‘5 Ways’ justify<br />
Christians’ belief in God? Do they<br />
prove God?<br />
Christians claim to experience God<br />
in many different ways. How can<br />
these claims be appreciated and<br />
appraised?<br />
What are the best atheist arguments<br />
against God? Can atheists prove<br />
there is no God?<br />
So, for Buddhists, Christians,<br />
Muslims and Atheists, how<br />
important is the idea of proving or<br />
disproving God?<br />
Unit 2 – Is death the end?<br />
Students will study the following key areas<br />
with reference to Christianity, Buddhism<br />
and non-religious beliefs<br />
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What do people believe about life?<br />
What do people believe about an<br />
after-life?<br />
Why do we have funerals?<br />
What do Buddhist people believe
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