A quick overview of everything in the Christian Practices section of the new spec AQA specification. Useful for revision to give a overview of this part of the course.

A simple worksheet about the Gallipoli campaign. Could be used for LA students or consolidation exercise.

A lesson, with video clips and activities on the Cold War. This was made for KS3. It looks at the end of WW2 to the beginnings of the Cold War and it began. Some source skills work and other activities in the lesson.

A knowledge organiser for the new specifciation AQA religious studies on Christian Beliefs. Useful for students to have a one sheet overview of the basics of this part of the specification.

A simple sheet which can be used as a plenary reflection for pupils. It allows them to reflect on the ‘key’ elements of the lesson or set of lessons and considers what they need to do to improve next time.

Theme F Human Rights and Social justice AQA Religious Studies A resource / worksheet for pupils to practice exam skills. Made for homelearning but could be used in class or for homework. I use these to get pupils to plan out ideas on them rather than write out full answers, but could be used for that.

Simple Buddhism wordsearch

A simple slide which can be used for pupils to reflect on their learning in the lesson using the analogy of football to engage boys in particular.

New Spec AQA RS Christian Beliefs DIT Activity. This uses some questions from the AQA textbook, but built around pupils self-assessing and looking to improve their own answers to the questions (presuming you set it for improvement work after assessing pupils on these questions. Good to use to get pupils considering how to improve areas of their own understanding and exam technique

AQA RS Exam practice Honeycomb sheet for religion and Life. This is useful for students to plan out their exam questions by allowing them practise the easier questions but then also plan out the content, key words and quotes that would be useful for this sort of question.

Pupils fill in half the ‘ticket’ at the beginning of the lesson and this is a reflection from last lesson and a target for this one. At the end then fill the second part of the ticket with the things they have learned in the lesson. Useful for reflection, self assessment, showing progress in a lesson.

This is a reflection sheet I made for my GCSE students studying the AQA religious studies new spec (from 2016). It gets pupils to think about how they did and the reflect on this and what they have to do next time. Hope it is useful!

A worksheet activity which has lots are arguments for and against abortion for pupils to highlight.

Life in Anglo-Saxon England Guided Reading sheet. Useful as a way into teaching medieval England

New Spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Christian Practices Personalised Learning Checklists PLC. Useful for pupils to RAG themselves on what they know before and then after revising. By RAGing themselves they can know the areas they have to go away and revise or seek further help for. It also has areas for them to RAG key words and quotes to see if they know any that link to that area of the specification. Set out in ‘I can’ statements so pupils can think about what they can do already and what else they need to learn. Could be used at the start of the course of before revision for the exams.

AQA RS New Spec 9-1 Crime and Punishment Revision Clock. Useful for teacher led or independent revision activity.

AQA RS New Spec 9-1 Relationships and Families Revision Clock. Useful for independent or teacher led revision.

AQA New Spec 9-1 Peace and conflict Revision clock. Useful for students in either teacher led revision or independent revision.

AQA RS New Spec 9-1 Religion and Life Revision Clock. useful revision sheet for pupils to use for the whole unit on religion and life.

New Spec 9-1 AQA Religious Studies Christian Beliefs Personalised Learning Checklists PLC. Useful for pupils to RAG themselves on what they know before and then after revising. By RAGing themselves they can know the areas they have to go away and revise or seek further help for. It also has areas for them to RAG key words and quotes to see if they know any that link to that area of the specification. Set out in ‘I can’ statements so pupils can think about what they can do already and what else they need to learn. Could be used at the start of the course of before revision for the exams.