Please see the Autumn 2007 Newsletter (click here).
Advent special needs lotto games
Please see (click here) for information on the list of lotto games available.
Inset information for 2007 - 2008
The list of insets that the Diocesan Department of Religious Education is supporting is listed (click here).
GCSE & 6th Form General RE - letter from Dr Lally
Dear colleague
GCSE RE: Last academic year, at the suggestion of several headteachers, I requested GCSE results for religious education so that we could establish data which is more appropriate for judging a school’s performance than national comparison. Sadly, only about half of the schools responded. I think it is worth trying again to gather this information.
No data about individual schools will be published by the department, only the overall diocesan average. This could be used by schools themselves as well as a more relevant comparator for inspections.
I should be grateful, therefore, if you would ask your data manager or head of RE to send me the 2008 GCSE results for RE as soon as possible. One school has already done this unasked – thank you St Thomas More (Willenhall)!
Best wishes for the new school year.
John
(John Lally: Director of School Improvement)
All that I am
The origin of this project was born from the experience of practitioners teaching primary and secondary pupils. The need to provide a curriculum in sex and relationship education that is authentic to the Church's teaching and acknowledges pupils' stage of physical and sexual development. Throughout the writing of the script and teacher-support meterials the Department consulted with primary and secondary aged pupils.
The programme is split into 5 distinct sessions - All that I am, Key Stage 2 for Year 5 and 6 teachers, Where I am, Key Stage 3 for Year 7, 8 and 9 teachers, How I am, Key Stage 4 for Year 10 and 11 teachers, and finally Who I am, Key Stage 5 for Year 12 and 13 teachers.
On The Way To Life is an interpretive essay commissioned by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and written by Frs. James Hanvey, SJ and Tony Carroll, SJ. It provides an evaluative commentary on contemporary culture and social trends, secularisation and modernity and the part both play in the field of catechesis, religious education and formation.
