June 2024 Religious Studies subject update

To support teacher subject knowledge, we recently ran a training event focusing on the 'beliefs' or 'beliefs and teachings' sections of Specification A and Specification B for those teaching Islam.  

You can access the recording and resources below:

• Insight into the teaching of Muslim beliefs resources
  Access the resources from the recent 'Insight into the teaching of Muslim beliefs' event
• Insight into the teaching of Muslim beliefs recording
  You can watch the recording from the recent 'Insight into the teaching of Muslim beliefs' event.

To support teacher subject knowledge, we are offering another free online training event focusing on the 'beliefs' or 'beliefs and teachings' sections of Specification A and Specification B for those teaching Christianity.  

This aims to offer clarification on specification content, provide opportunities to discuss the planning of engaging lessons, using a variety of resources and activities, and the opportunity for 'Q&A' with a subject specialist.

As part of ongoing improvements to our qualifications, Pearson are currently looking to acquire feedback, in relation to GCSE Religious Studies.
 
We are looking for GCSE teachers who would be willing to participate in a confidential interview lasting approximately 45 minutes*. If you wish to contribute to our research and help influence these improvements, please get in touch via the short form below. 

*Please note that interviewees will be selected in order to achieve a diverse mix of responses from across UK centres and will receive a £20 Amazon voucher for their time.   

• Improving GCSE Religious Studies B
  We are looking for GCSE teachers who would be willing to participate in a confidential interview lasting approximately 45 minutes*. If you wish to contribute to our research and help influence these improvements, please get in touch via the short form below.

We are offering a mock marking and moderation service for GCSE Religious Studies.  

The Pearson Edexcel Mocks Service can help your students gain vital insight into the examination process, while saving you valuable time.  These services will be using the amended level descriptors to give you the opportunity to see how questions perform under the new criteria.  

These services are currently available to order now for the following most popular papers:

Specification A: Paper 1A, Paper 2F, Paper 3A

Specification B: Paper 1B, Paper 2C

*You can request other papers on an ad-hoc basis

What is the Mocks Service?

The Mocks Service for GCSE Religious Studies helps you to achieve consistency in marking across groups of schools, departments and cohorts. Students sit exam papers. The papers are marked by Edexcel senior examiners applying the new level descriptors and the results are uploaded to ResultsPlus for detailed question level analysis.

It is designed to be flexible for your needs:

• Submit entries for the whole qualification or only entries for one paper
• Submit your whole cohort, cohorts across the Trust, a sample, or as few as 5 papers

What is the Moderation Service?

Our moderation service helps support teacher understanding of the Pearson Edexcel mark scheme and provide confidence that marking is consistent across schools, departments and cohorts. Our moderators supply commentaries and reports to help identify areas that need improvement and that could benefit from additional CPD.

We recommend you submit a sample of around 15% of your own marked papers which will be reviewed by our team of Pearson Edexcel moderators. Within 21 days of us receiving your papers, we will provide personalised script commentaries and a detailed moderation report outlining trends and gaps in marking and feedback on student responses.

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• Mock Marking service
  This link takes you to the mock marking webpage
• How does the Mock service work?
  This PDF gives a step-by-step explanation of the mock marking process

For any new teachers to Edexcel A level RS, this pre-recorded session will provide you with the information you need to introduce you to the qualification.  

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For those who were unable to join us in April for our Introduction to the ELC event, you can now access a recording and the resources for this event at a time convenient for you.

Pearson Edexcel ELC in Religious Studies - Launch Event and F.A.Q This pre-recorded session is designed for centres who were unable to attend the recent live launch event for Pearson Edexcel's ELC in Religious Studies. It also serves to address some of the frequently asked questions we have received from centres, following the live event. 2.3 MB zip /content/dam/pdf/Entry Level Certificate/Religious Studies/2024/teaching-and-learning-materials/1rs01-24p1-pearson-edexcel-elc-in-religious-studies-launch-event-and-f-a-q-pre-record.zip false

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Those teaching Buddhism, may find the Tricycle website a useful teaching resource, including a range of teachings and articles suitable for further reading.  

• Tricycle: The Buddhist review