At Lightcliffe Academy our Religious Studies curriculum aims to engage, inspire and encourage our students to ask deep and often searching questions about the world in which we live in. The aim of this curriculum is to contribute pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development learning about different people’s worldviews, both religious and non – religious whilst having the time to reflect on their own beliefs and values that are vital for their health and happiness. Students will be encouraged to be ambitious in their studies developing their key academic skills in Theology, Philosophy and Ethics whilst given the space and opportunity to question and seek responses to the diverse and varied beliefs, values and practices that shape our world. In their approach, students will be nurtured to be objective and balanced thinkers who formulate articulate answers about the questions they have pertinent to the theological viewpoints, philosophical debates and contemporary ethical issues they interact with so that they can develop to be respectful and culturally aware of the diverse local, national and global world in which they live in.
