Grade 8Christian Religious Education
What your child actually learns this year
Every strand and every topic in the Grade 8 Christian Religious Education curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.
1CreationWhere the story starts, and the problem it sets up.
Origin and Consequences of Sin
6 skillsThe Genesis account, and what the tradition draws from it.
God's Plan for Redemption
6 skillsThe promise that runs from Genesis to the Gospels, and why the Bible is read as one story rather than many.
2The BibleThe people the Old Testament is built around.
Faith and God's Promises
7 skillsWhat faith is taken to mean in this tradition, taught through the people the Bible says had it.
Abrahamic Covenant
8 skillsThe agreement at the centre of three religions, and what each side of it undertook. The largest topic in the strand.
Leadership in Israel: Saul
5 skillsIsrael's first king: how he was chosen, and why his reign is told as a warning.
3Miracles of Jesus ChristThree accounts, studied closely rather than listed.
Healing of Blind Bartimaeus
4 skillsThe account, what is said in it, and what the tradition teaches from it.
Calming the Storm
5 skillsThe story on the lake, and what it is understood to say about trust.
Healing of the Paralytic
5 skillsThe man let down through the roof, and the friends who carried him there.
4Teachings of Jesus ChristWhat he is recorded as saying, and what is made of it.
Teaching on Prayer
5 skillsWhat Jesus is recorded as saying about how to pray, including the Lord's Prayer itself.
The Lost Sheep
4 skillsThe parable, and why the one that wandered off is the one the story follows.
5The ChurchHow the community began, and what it is for.
The Holy Spirit
5 skillsWhat the church teaches about the Spirit, and the day it describes as its own beginning.
Acts of Compassion
7 skillsService to other people as an obligation rather than a kindness.
6Christian Living TodayThe largest strand, and the one about your child's own life.
Family Relationships
7 skillsWhat the tradition teaches about parents, brothers and sisters, and the duties that run in both directions.
Human Sexuality: Responsible Sexual Behaviour
7 skillsTaught frankly, with the tradition's position stated and the health facts included.
Sacredness of Life
7 skillsWhy life is held to be sacred, and what that is taken to rule out.
Bullying
5 skillsWhat it is, what it does, and what somebody watching it is expected to do.
Work: Talents and Abilities
8 skillsWork as something a person is suited to rather than only paid for. The largest topic in the subject.
Leisure
7 skillsHow free time is spent, and the argument that this is a moral question too.
Why you can take this page at face value
Straight from the KICD design
The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 8 Christian Religious Education curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.
Nothing here is a sample
Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.
Marked by a machine, written by a person
Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.
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