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• Chaplaincy supported over 100 individual students with specialist pastoral support last academic year. We ran 300 one-to-one sessions with students covering a range of issues from self-perception to bereavement.

• We worked intensively with 14 young people over 38 sessions in the Garden project, helping them to learn new skills, cope better with school life, and enjoy a safe space to try something new.

• Chaplaincy provided three different lunchtime clubs for dozens of students every week, giving them safe places, opportunities to meet with friends and have fun during the school day.

• We facilitated the school’s Reflection Room to be open to all students and staff as a ‘safe a special place for contemplation, prayer and reflection’.

• Chaplaincy contributed to the school’s assembly and collective worship programme, delivering a range of thoughtful, meaningful and engaging assemblies for students in every year group and House.

Student Feedback and Statistics

Feedback from Summer School 2023

Throughout my younger years at school, I only ever had one or two friends at a time, and this greatly impacted how much I enjoyed going to school and my learning; I was always awkward, and blended into the background.

I joined Theology Club when I was still in Key Stage 3, and it was there that I discovered that I have a passion for learning about religious belief and studying religious scriptures - and finally had something to look forward to week to week.

In Theology Club, we specifically look at Christianity and The Bible. We explore and debate topics from how language is used in The Bible, to obscure people in Jesus’ life, and how plausible the Easter story is according to modern science. Discovering my passion for Religious Studies and Theology has greatly impacted my life path, including what I’m doing at school and my future career prospects.

For example, for my EPQ (Extended Project Qualification), I chose to investigate the question ‘Should Religious Education be taught in British schools?’ as through debates in Theology Club and my own Religious Education in Key Stage 3, I have encountered a wide variety of different opinions on the matter and wanted to explore them in more detail.

I did this through the medium of questionnaires, and also interviewing people such as the school chaplain and a local vicar. Doing my EPQ on this subject really reinforced the fact that in the future I would like to be a teacher of RE, and study Religious Studies at university.

Learning to respect and accommodate for others religious beliefs has resulted in me being passionate about teaching others the same values, to help contribute to the creation of a more accepting and peaceful society.