Year 9 Curriculum Information Booklet 2017-2018

Religious Education
RE is taught to all students at Stretford Grammar School and in Year 9 students begin the
EDUQAS GCSE Full course as permitted by the Trafford Agreed Syllabus for RE 2016. In
Year 9, Religious, Philosophical and Ethical Studies in the Modern World (50%) is delivered
with a focus on the three topics explained below. The final topic on this paper (Issues of
Human Rights) is delivered at the start of Year 10 with the remaining time focussing on the
other 50% of the course (Christianity and Islam). All units are compulsory.
Unit 1 – Issues of Relationships
Students will study the following key areas
with reference to Christianity and Islam.
They will look at attitudes towards:
The nature and purpose of
relationships in the twenty first
century: families, roles of women
and men, marriage outside the
religious tradition and cohabitation
Adultery, divorce and annulment
and separation and re-marriage
The nature and purpose of sex and
the use of contraception
Thomas Aquinas’ theory of Natural
Law
Same-sex relationships
The roles of women and men in
worship and authority
Unit 2 – Issues of Life and Death
Students will study the following key areas
with reference to Christianity, Islam and
non-religious views towards:
The origins of the universe
The relationship between religious
and non-religious views of creation
Dominion, stewardship,
environmental responsibility,
sustainability and global citizenship
Origins and sanctity of life
Importance of human and animal
life
Humanist ‘Dignity in Dying’
movement
Religious beliefs about the afterlife