Religious Education

Religious Education has a key role, contributing to a student’s individual, social, spiritual and moral development. A multi-sensory approach is used to enable students to grasp ideas and concepts which are often difficult for many of the children who attend St. Dominic’s. Accordingly, visits are arranged to different places of worship including a Baptist Church, a local convent, a Synagogue, a Mosque, a Quaker Meeting House. Learning is promoted by talks and presentations from visiting speakers. We employ a range of videos and DVDs, artefacts and teaching styles such as role play, use of interactive whiteboard to make the ideas and concepts more concrete and the learning more experiential. 

Throughout the school RE is a core subject. In Key Stage Four the pupils are able to gain external accreditation through Entry Level and GCSE courses. We are very proud of our academic record.

In the most recent inspection in January 2008 the department was judged to be “outstanding”.