Staff:
John Cross (Principal Teacher)
Seamus McQuaker
Karen McConville
AIMS OF THE DEPARTMENT
To encourage an interest in religion
and moral issues in a spirit of open enquiry, tolerance and respect for
others.
To help pupils build up their knowledge
of important religious and moral beliefs.
To help pupils understand why people
hold particular beliefs and attitudes and what it is like to belong to
a faith community.
To
help pupils develop and practise skills of investigating religious and
moral issues.
To help pupils develop their own
views on questions of meaning, value and purpose on terms of personal ideals,
beliefs and attitudes.
To help pupils formulate and express
reasoned arguments for their own opinions on religious and moral issues.
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