Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: GCSE
Subject: Religious Studies
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTrust Victor Watton to maximize every student’s potential with his trademark mix of well-paced, focused content coverage and confidence-boosting exam support tailored to the 2016 Edexcel requirements.
– Progressively builds students’ subject knowledge through accessible explanations of religious and thematic concepts, topics and terms
– Helps students learn, retain and revise the key content by following a clear and consistent structure that maps every topic against the specification
– Offers a complete solution to assessment preparation with practice questions and expert guidance on how students can improve their responses
– Enhances students’ interest and understanding using a variety of engaging visual sources, textual extracts and activities to illustrate different practices, perspectives and teachingsEdexcel GCSE RS Spec B: Beliefs in Action
Content covered:
Area of study one: Religion and ethics through a study of Christianity
Section 1 Christian beliefs
Section 2 Marriage and the family
Section 3 Living the Christian Life
Section 4 Matters of Life and Death
Area of study two: Religion, Peace and Conflict through a study of Islam and Judaism
Section 1 Muslim beliefs
Section 1 Jewish beliefs
Section 2 Crime and Punishment
Section 3 Living the Muslim Life
Section 3 Living the Jewish Life
Section 4 Peace and conflict
– Covers the short course content (through Christianity and Islam or Judaism)

Content Covered:

The Norman Conquest
Religion in medieval England
The Crusades
The problems of medieval monarchs
The Black Death
Migration