Religious Education Focus Areas

Our last s48 Diocesan Inspection was in November 2015. We were judged to be a Good school for Classroom Religious Education and an Outstanding school for the Catholic Life of the School.

We were set the following targets by the inspectors:

What should the school do to develop further in classroom religious education?
– Improve the teaching and pupils’ progress still further by ensuring teachers:

use more probing questioning to deepen pupils’ knowledge and understanding in religious
education, particularly for the most able
provide activities that are well matched to pupils’ interests and enthusiasms, particularly
for boys
provide pupils with more consistent feedback on how to improve their work

What should the school do to develop further the Catholic life of the school?

Strengthen the formal systems for monitoring the Catholic life across the school

Provide more opportunities for mutual sharing of best practice with both Catholic and non-Catholic schools to aid pupils’ progression to secondary school.

What have we done?