OCR GCSE religious studies

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.