These classes cover the key areas of KS3 Religious Studies, across two years. You can join the class at any point. Religious Studies can be divided into two key areas, Religious Studies and Thematic Studies, these will be taught alternatively each half term.

Religious Study – You will consider and investigate the existence of God, ethics and religions within society. You will also learn about the six main religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Buddhism and Hinduism: their founders, key figures, sacred buildings and religious texts. The lessons will also cover beliefs and practices, rites of passage and how religion impacts upon daily life.

Thematic Study- In these lessons you will learn about ‘Poverty’, ‘War’, ‘Crime and Punishment’, ‘Religion and Earth’ and ‘Human Rights’. You will develop skills in analysing, evaluating and conveying reasoned arguments.

These lessons will be an excellent preparation for the GCSE Religious Studies AQA course. Optional independent learning activities will be provided weekly for you to complete

KS3 Overview 2023-2024
Autumn 1 Thematic Study Does God Exist?
Autumn 2 Religious Study – Islam
Spring 1 Thematic Study – Poverty
Spring 2 Religious Study – Sikhism
Summer 1 Thematic Study – Just War
Summer 2 Religious Study – Buddhism
KS3 Overview 2024-2025
Autumn 1 Religious Study – Judaism
Autumn 1 Thematic Study – Religion and Earth
Spring 1 Religious Study – Christianity
Spring 1 Thematic Study – Crime and Punishment
Summer 1 Religious Study – Hinduism
Summer 2 Thematic Study – Human Rights

Please note:

If a class with exactly the same name is on more than once a week it is a repeat lesson with the same content. As places are limited and so you don’t have duplicate lessons please only sign up for the one class per week. This will leave spaces for other customers and stop any additional cost to yourself as we will be unable to give a refund.

On occasions we may have to change the day or time of a course or on rare occasions the course is cancelled. This maybe due to a teacher leaving or low numbers. We do try to do this only when absolutely necessary and will always give advance warning and try to offer an alternative for you.

Standard classes are £3 and numbers are limited to 40. Smaller classes (e.g. GCSE) are £6 are per student and classes are kept smaller at 25 maximum. If there is more than 1 child joining a £6 class you need to make sure you have added the correct amount to your basket. We reserve the right to ask for back payments if this does not happen.

For safeguarding purposes, every Zoom lesson includes a brief visual registration at the beginning which requires children to have their webcam switched on and their correct name (the one used on their LLP child profile) displayed on Zoom. If your child would like to join lessons but is anxious about this or needs to have their face covered during lessons for religious or any other reason please get in touch, and we can arrange a password for them to use instead.

We are now offering some courses as pre recorded lessons in topic blocks on llpextralearningspace.co.uk This then allows you to buy previous lessons in topic packs either for revision purposes or to do a topic yourselves. We recognise that this will have some issues for those that do not wish to be on camera so the new format of the class is that the visual register and any informal discussions happen before and after the lesson itself is recorded. The teachers will all have their settings set to speaker view so that the thumbnail of whoever is speaking will only be highlighted when or if they speak. If you do not want your child to appear in the recording it is your responsibility to ensure the camera is switched off after the visual register unless they have an agreed password then it can remain switched off at all times.