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
Lawnswood Campus
The Orchard Centre
Lawnswood Campus
Nightingale Home and Hospital Service
Pupil Premium
What is Pupil Premium?
The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) is additional funding given to publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers. Pupil premium funding is available to both mainstream and non-mainstream schools, such as special schools and pupil referral units.
It is paid to schools according to the number of pupils who have been registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years (Ever 6).
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The percentage of students eligible for these additional levels of funding alters regularly due to the changing cohort of the population. The funding is allocated to the home school when a student is dual registered which significantly reduces the amount of funding available to The Orchard Centre.
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How we decide to spend our allocated Pupil Premium Grant can have very different impacts on pupil attainment, and choosing what to prioritise is not easy. Therefore much consideration has been taken on how we invest the money. We have consulted educational research in order to ensure we make the maximum impact on the learning of students who are eligible.
