Living in Kilkenny. Assistant Professor in Religious Education School of Human Development and Church of Ireland Centre Dublin City University. Views my own.
Final day at ISREV in Riga and pleased to present a paper relating to my work on the re-development project for the Follow Me religious education programme taught in Church of Ireland primary schools Ireland. @CIC_DCU@DCUHumanDev
Attending ISREV (International Seminar on Religious Education and Values) in Riga. A busy week of keynotes and collegial papers. A privilege to formally respond to a paper on a survey of teachers about a new model for Religious Education in Finland. @CIC_DCU@DCUHumanDev
A lovely afternoon working with the principal and teaching staff in @StJohnsShannon. Thanks for the welcome and all the fruitful conversation about RE. @DCUHumanDev
A privilege to present the first phase of the re-development of the Follow Me Religious Education programme at General Synod today. 3rd and 4th class slide decks will be available for schools from September. https://t.co/WGRt4o77bU @DCUHumanDev#coigs@churchofireland
Delighted to share this new article: Assessing the influence of the home in sustaining church attendance in Anglican children attending Anglican primary schools in the Republic of Ireland. https://t.co/8eLd9J34DQ @DCU_IoE@DCUHumanDev@churchofireland
The first of three Religious Education webinars for Church of Ireland primary schools takes place this afternoon. Thanks to @claruineill@stmichaels_ns who is our guest presenter. We look forward to welcoming more than 60 teachers to this event. @CIC_DCU
The Religious Education Certificate (Follow Me) taught by @JWilkinson31 is part of the BEd programme for students attached to the Church of Ireland Centre in DCU. Final year students finished this course today with a service of Holy Communion celebrated by @annelodge1 and lunch.
At the pre-graduation service this week, placement awards were given to Rebecca Lyster Elvie McAdoo Amy McCullagh Ella Patten Emily Saunders and Isobel Wallace. Huge congratulations to Cathy Galbraith, the @DCU_IoE recipient of the Vere Foster medal for outstanding Placement.
At the Church of Ireland Centre service and prize giving yesterday Rachel Denner, Amy Fletcher, Zoe Harper, Molly Healy, Rebecca Lyster & Andrew Arnopp were awarded prizes in the 4 year Certificate in Religious Education taught by Dr Jacqui Wilkinson. @churchofireland
A very happy occasion today for the 2024 graduating teachers linked with the Church of Ireland Centre & their families. We held a short service and awards presentation before they went to their conferring ceremony in the Helix. @annelodge1@JWilkinson31@DCU_IoE@churchofireland
Delighted to be invited to Gorey Central School to deliver CPD to the teaching staff. Great to talk about the practicalities of teaching the Follow Me RE programme. Thanks for the welcome. @DCUHumanDev@CIC_DCU
Lovely day working with BEd 1 students in @MarinoInstitute. I introduced the Follow Me programme to them along with pedagogies of storytelling and questioning, as part of their module on Patrons’ Programmes & RE. Great to meet @ChaplaincyMIE again too. @DCUHumanDev@CIC_DCU
I am presenting 4 webinars for teachers this week. These are designed to support those new to teaching specific books in the Follow Me Religious Education programme. It is great to see more than 80 teachers registering from more than 40 schools. @CIC_DCU@DCUHumanDev
Happy memories of my ordination as a deacon thirty years ago and priest twenty nine years ago today, St Columba’s Day. Grateful for the privilege of service in the ordained ministry over all this time and for the fellowship of so many wonderful pilgrims in faith.