Exam Board: OCR

Level: GCSE

Subject: RS

First Teaching: September 2016

First Exam: June 2018

Motivate every student to deepen their understanding and fulfil their potential by following a stimulating, well-paced course through the strengthened content requirements; produced by subject specialists and OCR's Publishing Partner.

• Equips students with the detailed knowledge they need to succeed with clear, lively explanations that make key concepts accessible to all ability levels.
• Provides opportunities for students to learn, review and develop their knowledge and skills through a variety of engaging activities, discussion points and extension tasks to stretch high achievers.
• Ensures that your lessons are both innovative and inclusive, supplying a bank of tasks that draw on best practice teaching methods.
• Encourages students to take an active interest in every topic, using relevant news articles, real-life viewpoints and quotations from sacred texts to bring religious principles and practices to life.
• Boosts students' confidence approaching assessment via practice questions and guidance on tackling different question types.
• Enables you to teach the systematic study content confidently with comprehensive coverage of Christianity and Islam.

OCR GCSE RS Spec

Content covered:

• Christianity
  • Beliefs and teachings
  • Practices
• Islam
  • Beliefs and teachings
  • Practices
• Religion, philosophy and ethics in the modern world from a Christian perspective
  • Relationships and families
  • The existence of God
  • Religion, peace and conflict
  • Dialogue between religious and non-religious beliefs and attitudes

- Covers the short course content.