New KS3 Sikhism Unit that includes PowerPoint-led learning through an engaging and well-designed Work Pack. The PowerPoints are well-planned and visusally engaging to promote maximum knowledge retrieval and evoke great interest from the learners. The 10 lessons are a combination of beliefs, teachings and practices. If you’d like your unit to be shorter, you can ‘pick and choose’ the lessons relevant to your students. The PowerPoints aid a ‘plug in and play’ approach to teaching, benefiting both subject specialists and non-subject specialists alike. In addition, the Powerpoint and the lesson sheets now include all resources that the students need to access an engaging, high-quality education. Lessons include: L1 - Intro to Sikhism L2 - Guru Nanak L3 - The One L4 - Guru Granth Sahib L5 - Gurdwara L6 - Five Ks L7 - Evil and Suffering L8 - Life After Death L9 - Making Moral Decisions L10 - Global Issues Scaffolding is included in the Powerpoint itself and also in the Work Pack to ensure maximum engagement and comprehension. Challenges (extension tasks) also exist throughout the unit to further enhance skills and understanding. There are a variety of knowledge, understanding and evaluation tasks throughout the unit, including video and debate activities that the students always love - year-on-year. Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!

Religious Studies / Philosophy and Ethics This 8-lesson unit, ‘Buddhist Practices’, is a brand new learning journey. Lessons are up-to-date, well-designed and engaging to keep in line with current thinking and relevant issues. Created with the AQA specification in mind, however the topics and learning are relevant across different specifications. Individual lessons are intended as a double (roughly one and a half hours per lesson) however, due to time restrictions and the embedded support in the corresponding lesson sheets, could also be taught in a minimal one hour per lesson. Lessons Include: Karma Six Perfections Five Precepts Worship Puja Meditation Death and Mourning Festivals and Retreats *Lesson resource sheets if using exercise books This scheme of learning has been devised explicitly to support all learners, interleave learning with previously-learned units and support cognition through interleaving techniques. Although part of a unit, lessons can also be taught as a stand-alone lessons, e.g. for revision. The corresponding lesson sheet(s) would also support a home-learned curriculum as the PowerPoints and sheets themselves include differentiation and scaffolding, where required. The new scheme of work is specifically designed to promote the two skills desired for success at GCSE (and beyond) AO1 (Knowledge and Understanding) AO2 (Analysis and Evaluation) The resources are specifically created to ensure students are aware of the skill they are demonstrating and how to improve further through modelling. This new unit brings the relevance back to our topics, for example, through thought experiments and key debate topics. Students will experience greater engagement and enjoyment in a fair and balanced approach. Lessons include: Homework Slide Unit Cover and lesson overview Starter activity, including interleaving Key words (literacy focus) Introduction of key information (AO1 - knowledge) and how this is used (AO1 - understanding) Introduction of a contentious issue or debate (AO2 - analysis) and finalised judgement (AO2 - evaluation) Plenary The lesson resource sheets: These are designed so that even those who have limited curriculum time can explore the full unit without having to feel the time pressures on their classwork. The resources provide time-saving activities, whilst still being able to cover the breadth and depth of the course. In addition, students who may be limited by literacy issues, e.g. slower writing paces, are not disadvantaged or capped in their progress. Therefore, some classes could use a mixed approach - part resources, part exercise book - and all students will be able to progress through the same volume of content. Please give feedback: I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!