Religious Education

The Religious Education Department offers the full range of teaching through the key stages while also offering pastoral, charitable and sacramental opportunities to enhance, develop and extend the students experiences about the Catholic Faith and religion and experiences from the Catholic Faith and other religious traditions- Judaism in yr8, the other Christian faith traditions in yr9 and Islam in yr10. With access to a beautiful Chapel for the use of the whole College community we are truly blessed to be able to hold masses, liturgies and opportunities to gather for private and collective worship. Offering opportunities inside and outside the department sees its vision as develop the whole person in the model of Christ Himself.

The FULLY ALIVE programme 1, 2 and 3 are completed in yrs8-10 covering a wide range of topics including the Bible, the background to the life of Jesus, the story of creation, the life of St Francis of Assisi, the other Christian faith traditions, St Luke, self identity, friendship with God, Islam and attitudes about prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination.

At Ks4 offers the CCEA GCSE modules of St Marks Gospel in yr11, Christian Ethics in yr12 and the OCN Award in Religious Education. At ks5 students complete a General RE course and at A Level we follow the CCEA modules of Acts and Medical Ethics in AS and the follow through modules of Pauline Epistles and Global Ethics at A2.

The RE department offers a range of outside classroom experiences and opportunities such as trips to religious sites and trips like last year to the relics of St Kilian in Co. Cavan and for senior students a trip to Rome every other year (the next in 2027) while having a wide range of liturgies and celebrations such as opening, monthly and leavers masses, confessions and involvement in charitable work such as the annual Christmas Apoeal for SVdP. Alongside this are roles as Extraordinary Minsters of the Eucharist and in yr13 Faith Friends.