Abbey CBS Newry Grammar School

The Abbey Grammar School
77a, Ashgrove Road
Newry
Co Down, BT34 1QN
N Ireland
+44 (0) 28 3026 3142

Religion

From September 2016 major changes happened with both GCSE Religious Studies and A’Level Religious Studies in the Abbey!

 

In the Abbey,  Religious Studies is taught from Year 8 to Year 14.

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Mrs L McKeever
LG14

Curriculum Information

At KS3 we follow the Fully Alive programme along with our own innovative power points and interactive lessons. Our focus as a department is to engage our pupils and ensure that they enjoy coming to Religion class. Every class is responsible for preparing their own class mass which takes place period 5 each Wednesday. Fr Colm Murphy, comes into the abbey to celebrate mass with us!

Every year our  KS3 pupils take part in the ‘Good Samaritan Shoe box’ appeal. This year our shoe boxes went to Romania.

A new initiative this year was to organise a Year 8 ‘Advent calender’ competition which is being judged by Fr Colm on Wednesday…..major competition!!

From September 2016, we moved examining board to CCEA and embarking upon a new GCSE. this course is a Modular GCSE course with pupils completing 50% of their exam at the end of Year 11 and the following 50% at the end of Year 12.  The content is as follows:

Christianity through a Study of the Gospel of Mark (Unit 5)

  • The Role and Nature of Christian Discipleship
  • The Kingdom of God
  • Jesus the Miracle Worker
  • The identity of Jesus
  • An Introduction to Christian Ethics
  • Personal and Family Issues
  • Matters of Life and Death
  • Care for the Environment
  • Equality
  • War and peace

Miss Gemma Mc Court from Trocaire visited the Abbey Grammar to hold an Assembly with pupils in Yr 8,9 and 10. Organised by Mrs Lisa Mc Keever (RE HOD).

RE Trocaire

The annual ‘Samaritan Purse’ Shoebox appeal. All pupils in Yrs 8-10 have been asked to bring in a shoebox, wrapped in Christmas paper and filled with goodies! These shoeboxes should to be brought in before Halloween.

Competition Time!!

The Year 8 pupils have been very busy competing in the annual Advent Calendar Competition. The task was to create an Advent Calendar that reflects the true meaning of Christmas using verses from St Matthew’s and St Luke’s Gospels. The pupils displayed some outstanding creativity and professional presentation in their work. The judges, Mr McGovern, Mrs Elmore, Mrs Mc Keever and Mr Harvey were totally amazed by the sheer talent in Year 8 and they all agreed that every calendar was unique and pupils clearly applied a lot of time and effort to achieve their finished product.

Rehospice

Departmental Staff

Mrs L McKeever

LG14
Head of Department

Mr E McGivern

LG11

Mr D Brankin

LG8

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