RE Department News

Year 8

Year 8 have just finished studying the Hinduism topic of ‘how do sacred texts guide Hindu’s today?’ As part of this topic, students learnt about the belief of Moksha. This is the freedom from the cycle of reincarnation.

Did you know that Snakes and Ladders is an ancient Indian game? The children in India played it to understand the effects of good deeds and bad deeds. The ladders represent values such as kindness and faith and the snakes represent bad deeds such as anger and murder. The aim of the game is to attain Moksha by performing good deeds and climbing the ladders to the top. If you perform bad deeds you will fall down the ladders. To help students understand the concept of Moksha, they created and played their own Snakes and Ladders games. Here are some excellent examples:

Year 10

One of the most wonderful things about taking RS at GCSE is all the fascinating careers the subject can lead to. Here at Penwortham Girls’, we think it’s crucial that students experience first-hand how their knowledge and skills is useful for real life careers. This term, Year 10 have enjoyed stepping into the shoes of journalists to investigate the miracle at Lourdes.

As part of their studies for their GCSE, students must know why Christians go on pilgrimage to Lourdes and what they do there. Before students wrote their final newspaper article, they spent one lesson looking at what pilgrims do in Lourdes today. They then spent a second lesson analysing blogs and news articles about the miracles which the Church claims have taken place at Lourdes.

Students made notes using the Cornell note-taking method and then pieced all their knowledge together into a newspaper article. Miss Buckle was very impressed with their depth, detail and evaluation skills. Here are some excellent examples:

Miss Buckle

RE Department

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