Religious Studies 
Staff
Mrs N Gibbs (HOD)
Mrs F Thomas
Mrs R Rose
Department Information
We would like to welcome you to the Religious Education Department in Dwr-y-Felin Compreshensive school. Our aim is to teach pupils of the principle religions along with moral and contemporary issue. We promote tolerance and compassion through the subject and hope our young people develop to become mature and respectful citizens.
Why is RE important?
Why study RS at GCSE? | Arthur Terry School RE Policy
"Religious Education is an opportunity to explore a vital area of human experience, to examine each other's cultural roots, to face far reaching questions of right and wrong, and to be exposed to
some of the world's most influential thinkers, it is hard to see how anybody at least half alive could dismiss it as boring or irrelavant."
- Lord Habgood, former Archbishop of York
Why do we study RE?
It is taught in an open, critical and sympathetic manner in which the student can enquire and raise questions without always been given any firm or conclusive answers. There is never any question of imposing particular religious values or beliefs the students, although the basic values of education and of the school will be supported (see School website).
Religious Education is an essential part of all students' education because:
- it addresses the fundamental questions of life which affect us all
- it helps the student to develop their own beliefs and values
- it exposes the students to some of the greatest thinkers the world has ever known
- it helps to prepare the students to take an active role in the multi-cultural society in which we live
- it promotes respect and critical tolerance of difference
- it promotes many skills which are transferable into many jobs and areas of life
- it provides the students with a tool so that they can begin to understand the profound influence of religion, particularly Christianity, on British history and culture
- it contributes to the personal, social and spiritual development of the students in which they are encouraged to take responsibility for their own actions and beliefs and values from which they stem