June 2024 Religious Studies subject update | Pearson qualifications

June 2024 Religious Studies subject update

24 June 2024

Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Religious Studies June 2024 subject update!

We're getting to the end of the exam period now and I hope that students found they were able to show all their knowledge (and continue to for those still with exams ahead).  I wanted to share a few useful links and updates to support you in your teaching.  

As always, please do get in touch with us if you have any queries or I can help with anything.  

Best wishes, 

Susan Currey

Religious Studies Subject Advisor 

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General Qualification Updates

Summer 2024 exam materials release date

Following on from the summer 2024 exams, question papers, mark schemes and examiner reports will be released on the following dates under silver padlock. 

Date Activity
2 July Question papers released (uploaded)
16 July Mark schemes released (uploaded)
20 August Examiners' reports for A level 
27 August Examiners' reports for GCSE
Post summer survey

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Summer 2024 post-exam series teacher survey

 

To enable us to improve the experience of teachers using our qualifications and students sitting our exams, we gather feedback after each exam series. If you're a teacher, and your students have taken any of our exams in the May/June 2024 series we want to know what you liked or didn't like in this year's exam papers.

We'll share your feedback with our senior examiners and across teams to ensure we continue to make improvements to our papers where appropriate so we can make sure your students have the best exam experience.

GCSE

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GCSE Religious Studies (Specifications A and B)

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:

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.

Event Date Time Booking Link
Insight into the teaching of Christian beliefs 27 June 2024 16:30 - 18:00 Event has passed

For those new to GCSE Edexcel or considering switching to us, we will also be running a 'New to Edexcel' event which introduces our different specifications to you.  

Event Date Time Booking Link
New to Edexcel: GCSE RS

2nd July 2024

16:30 - 18:00 Event has passed

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.   

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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AS and A Level Religious Studies

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.  

Pearson Edexcel A level Religious Studies 'New to Edexcel' Pre-recorded training
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ELC

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Entry Level Certificate

You can read more about our new ELC by reading our recent update, or you can sign up to receive updates about this qualification specifically at the following link:

Sign up to receive updates about this qualification

The draft specification and sample assessment materials are available on the ELC
qualification page: 

Access ELC qualification page

 

The sample assessment materials are available on our website for you to access. These have been developed to support this qualification and will be used as the benchmark to develop the live assessments that students will take.

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SAMs

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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.

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Enrichment and Teaching and Learning Support

Every month, we release an edition of 'Topic of the Month' with the aim of supporting cultural capital and stimulating discussion within the classroom. 

Each edition ties a current news event to our qualification content and enables students to see the bigger picture of what they are learning and how it relates to the world around them.  Each edition includes a link to an article alongside some key discussion questions to encourage thought around the subject.  

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TOTM

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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.  

I hope you found this update useful. 

Please get in touch with me if you have any questions!

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