This is a booklet which I wrote for the Christianity Beliefs and Teachings unit for AQA GCSE unit. I have tried to break up the information with tasks, and present it in a user-friendly way that an average 14/15 year old can get on with. I have been a Head of RE for 15+ years and work for the exam board. This booklet has been tested for a few years with 6 classes a year so has been tweeked and revised, so its now ready to print and use with a class, or inidividuals. Lesson #1: Is Jesus the Messiah? p3 Lesson #2: What sort of God do Christians believe in? p9 Lesson #3: Can Christians solve the Problem of Evil? p15 Lesson #4: How should the creation myths be understood? p21 Lesson #5: What do Christians believe about life after death? p27 Lesson #6: Assessment p31

Here are 2 workbooks I made during lockdown to cover the whole material and exam practice for the Religion, Peace and Conflict theme which is part of the Short Course and Theme D in Spec A. My students did not all have access to the internet and when they did they found there wasn’t enough bandwidth jiggery pokery for them all to use it at the same time so I started writing workbooks for them to use. Since we are back in school now they have all asked to carry on with this approach as it allows them to work at their own pace, so lessons become more workshop style and less about me telling them facts about the world. It doesn’t stop me from doing whole class tasks but it does allow me to tailor discussions to particular strengths and needs and gives them an excellent revision resource. I thought about combining them into one booklet, but by keeping separate it is possible for reprographics to print all 6 lessons into an A4 booklet, and keeps their work contained into 5 lessons and an assessment - so you can mark the assessments whilst they start the new topic. My workbooks are all self-contained, with all the info they will need and with tasks which I try to vary, interspersed - a lot of the workbooks I have seen involve a big load of text followed by a list of questions, which just doesn’t work for my learners. The assessments have my marking grid on the back, sometimes you want to give specific feedback, but other times, for example myself with 180 students to teach in the same year group, you need to turn the assessment feedback into something that is manageable. It also means that you can talk to the students about common pitfalls before they do the assessment. I’ve been an RE teacher 20 years, so you are getting the benefit of my experience here. I’ve seen all the initiatives come and go, I try to make sure my workbooks tick the boxes - literacy, Biblical texts, PSHE, British Values, etc etc. For £5 you are buying a self-contained series of 12 lessons that covers the Theme D unit. This took me 2 full weekends to write and edit. Booklet 1: Lesson #1: Who was Gandhi? p2 Lesson #2: Should Christians be pacifists? p8 Lesson #3: What is a Just War? p14 Lesson #4: What causes war? p21 Lesson #5: Is Holy War possible? p25 Lesson #6: Assessment p30 Booklet 2: Lesson #1: What are nuclear weapons? p2 Lesson #2: Is Just War possible today? p7 Lesson #3: Q5 technique/Where does extremism come from? p14 Lesson #4: What do Christians teach about forgiveness and reconciliation? p21 Lesson #5: Does protest change anything? p27 Lesson #6: Assessment p34

Here is a lesson’s PPT & worksheets on Kosher. Pitched at high ability Y8, it can be scaled down by using only page 1 of the scripture worksheet. I also recycle this same lesson for Y9 with GCSE AQA Judaism practices.

This will print as a handy A5-sized booklet with all the key concepts and terms students needs for the short course when taught with Judaism. Also at the back there is a page of useful quotes and a page of exam technique for each question type.

A good exercise to get your students thinking about how they can pick up the marks from a Q4 answer in as few words as possible. They read through my very long-winded but 5/5 answer, crossing out the words that don’t help to get the marks.

This is a 56 page revision guide that I put together for my own students as a complete guide. We do the AQA short course with Christianity & Judaism. This is not all original work, but if you teach the SC to whole cohorts you will know how reluctant parents are to buy the official printed revision guides so I made my own that is comprehensive enough to benefit top set students but also the right size so that our reprographics department can print it as an A4 stapled booklet. I have 15 years of experience of being Head of RE and training students for different exam specifications over that time - I have tried to condense the most useful aspects of exam preparation into this guide - it is a complete guide including what the expect, how to revise, checklists and information on the subject content. This is the only revision guide I use with my students and we get decent results - comparative with English, Maths & Science. It took me days of my time to write this! There are other revision resources I have put on TES that will save time for you. The contents page shows what it includes: What the exam paper looks like – 3 What is development? - 4 Exam strategy - 5 Memory Cheat Sheet #1 – 6 Memory Cheat Sheet #2 - 7 How to revise for the exam (C.R.A.M.P.S.) - 8 Revision checklists Christianity checklist - 9 Judaism checklist - 10 Families and Relationships checklist - 11 Religion, Peace & Conflict checklist - 12 Religious groups within Christianity & Judaism - 13 Course content notes Christianity notes - 14 Judaism notes - 22 Families & Relationships notes - 31 War & Conflict notes - 41 Basic quotes to learn - 52 Sample exam questions - 53

Here are 10 x revision cards: 2 each for the 4 units of the Short Course with the Judaism option (ie includes Christianity, Judaism, War & Family). Each of these has 10 Key Concepts and explanations including other ideas. The Key Concepts are taken from the AQA specification. 1 x 2 page card of useful quotes to learn to develop answers for Q3, Q4 & Q5s. 1 x 2 page card with revision mnemonics to help students remember some basic concepts. I have years of experience as Head of RE and over that time I have tweaked and adapted my revision resources - others are available on the TES!

This is a complete 6 lesson unit of work exploring Holy Week & Jesus. I use it in the run up to Easter with Year 7. It is fully resourced with a detailed scheme of learning document. Every resource has a file name that denotes the lesson it belongs to, and resources also contain the phase of the lesson it may be used at, and these lesson phases correspond with the scheme of learning document for ease of use. Every lesson has a quality Powerpoint presentation to accompany it, with lesson tasks, ideas and information. Homework tasks are also built into the scheme, as are reading texts and extended writing tasks. Lesson 1 explores the historical evidence for Jesus and asks questions abou tthe feeding of the 5000. Lesson 2 looks at the people involved in Palm Sunday and gets students writing a newspaper article to report on events with a bias. Lesson 3 considers the Last Supper and links this to the Eucharist. Lesson 4 asks students to consider Good Friday from the perspective of someone who was there. Lesson 5 reviews the evidence for the Resurrection in preparation for the following assessment lesson. Lesson 6 is focussed on getting the students to write an extended piece of writing about whether the Resurrection actually happened. There is a structure sheet available for this, and it is intended to build evaluation skills needed for GCSE AQA Question 5 type answers, though this could be adapted for whichever GCSE syllabus you follow. I am an experienced RE teacher, now Head of Humanities faculty, and with responsibility for leading and delivering Religous Studies at every level. This scheme of learning has been in the making for 15 years, being tweaked each year for improvements here and there - here is 15 years of effort and experience available to you for £5! I use this scheme of learning when I am training teachers about lesson planning to show what a good unit of work should contain. May also be of interest to schools without a specialist RE teacher - I have many non-specialists teaching RE so all my schemes have to be written in a way that presumes no subject knowledge by the teacher.

This is a fully-resourced lesson for home learning suitable for KS3 RE and History. Simply download and send to your students - fully explains and guides through concepts slide by slide. Assumes no knowledge to start. Can either be used as part of a series on heroes or as a stand-alone lesson responding to the Cecil Rhodes statue decision. Self guiding, with pictures, questions to think about and then a menu of 6 tasks on the final slide aimed at different abilities. I have 15 years’ experience making lesson resources as Head of RE. You will download an editable powerpoint file as well as a PDF of the PPT - some students do not have Office software to be able to read it.

A lesson exploring the Salem Witch Trials as an example of what happens when people start to blame groups and hysteria controls the crowd.