Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Religious Studies June 2025 subject update!
This update contains useful information, news and advice for Edexcel Religious Studies teachers including a new resource and details on upcoming training events.
As always, please do get in touch with me if you have any queries or if I can help with anything regarding our qualifications.
Best wishes,
Jenna Wyatt
Religious Studies Subject Advisor
For details on the release schedule for GQ Assessment materials which are uploaded onto the qualifications webpage under silver padlocks please click below:
This online event is designed to provide focused, subject knowledge support for the 'beliefs/beliefs and teaching' sections, featured in the 'Judaism' area of study, for Pearson Edexcel's GCSE in Religious Studies (specifications A and B).
The event will 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.
Please, join us on:
To book your place, click below:
Insight into the teaching of Jewish beliefs
In June, we will be sharing strategies for approaching 'd' questions to support teachers in the next academic year. Additionally, we will provide further guidance on the resources that we have recently shared in preparation for this exam season.
This online training will be delivered by myself and the Product Manager for Religious Studies. The training is intended to support teachers who are delivering Pearson Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies A and B specifications.
Please, join us: 17 June 2025 16:30-17:30 BST
In this event you will:
Book your place by clicking the link below or find out more by searching for Religious Studies via our training page:
GCSE Religious Studies: Strategies for Approaching (d) Questions
Every month, we release an edition of 'Topic of the Month' with the aim of supporting cultural capital and stimulating discussion within the classroom.
This resource 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.
This month’s topic relates to the Bishop of Oxford's emphasis on the importance of truth and ethics in shaping the future of news and journalism
At this time of year, awarding organisations receive lots of reports about websites and social media accounts claiming to have 2025 live assessment material available for sale (exam papers, mark schemes). We wanted to take this opportunity to remind our centres that any student found to have accessed or participated in the sharing of 'leaked' examination material will receive sanctions.
Help us to protect the integrity of our assessments by reporting these accounts. Contact us via pqsmalpractice@pearson.com
TRSChester’s A Level Religious Studies Webinars are online sessions where lecturers from the University of Chester share their expertise and discuss topics and issues related to the A Level Religious Studies specifications. While A Level students and teachers are welcome, the webinars are also open to GCSE and Key Stage Three students, as well as anyone with an interest in the subject.
The sessions are held every Tuesday from May 7th to June 11th (excluding May 28th), starting at 4pm.
Find out more below:
Academics at the University of Manchester Religions and Theology Department have designed a range of unique learning resources built out of their own expertise and the BBC Radio 4 Beyond Belief archive to create a series of activity pages that are designed to support A-level RS students and can support our Religious Studies A-Level quaification.
Click below to access the Beyond Belief archive of episodes:
