Humanities
Religious Education at The Orchard Centre is designed to provoke challenging questions about the ultimate meaning and purpose of life, beliefs about God, the self and the nature of reality, issues of right and wrong and what it means to be human.
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It offers opportunities for personal reflection and spiritual development. It enhances students’ awareness and understanding of religions and beliefs, teachings, practices and forms of expression, as well as of the influence of religion on individuals, families, communities and cultures.
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RE has an important role in preparing young people
for adult life, employment and lifelong learning.
It enables students to develop respect for
and sensitivity to others, in particular those
whose faiths and beliefs are different from their own.
It promotes discernment and enables students to combat prejudice.
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At KS4, students follow the AQA GCSE in Religious Studies (Specification A), studying units on:
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Christianity
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Sikhism
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Relationships and families
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Religion and life
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Religion, crime and punishment
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Religion, human rights and social justice
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Values & Ethos
The Orchard Centre aims to provide an educational experience which will enhance and support a return to mainstream education where appropriate
The Orchard Centre seeks to achieve these aims by:
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• Creating a meaningful, caring, stimulating and safe environment which will enable students to address their particular issues.
• Providing a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum with particular emphasis on literacy and numeracy.
• Providing individual learning programmes according to students’ needs, in order to enable a return to mainstream education or to another educational establishment which would better cater for their particular needs.
• Encouraging students to raise their self-esteem, and to value themselves and others, fostering the values of friendship and determination.
• Providing assessment opportunities where they can evaluate their progress against national norms and that of their peers.
• Encouraging students to take increasing responsibility for their own actions and for their learning and their futures.
• Working closely with parents/carers, schools and support agencies to ensure the students are given every opportunity to succeed.
• Promoting a positive and responsible attitude towards our community, the wider local community and that of society in general.
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We seek to minimise the disruption to our students’ education and offer an enriching and enjoyable experience, helping to reduce anxiety about school work.