Year 9 Blog Peterborough Cathedral Trip

Y10 Peterborough cathedral and Kingsgate church visit Friday 22/6/18 “The best part was finding out what an actual Christian thinks as opposed to learning about general Christian views…I still don’t understand how Christians decide which parts of the Bible to take literally.” “I was really surprised at how open the priest was about his beliefs […]

Y11 visit to the Faizane Madina mosque

Y11 visit to the Faizane Madina mosque, Peterborough and Thorpe hall hospice, Peterborough. As part of their study of Islam and medical ethics, 18 Y11 girls visited Peterborough to help them understand Islam (the mosque) and palliative care (the hospice). As we entered the biggest mosque in Peterborough with a capacity for 2500 worshippers, we […]

What is Love? Asks Lottie.

‘What is love?’ by Lottie Pike   What is love? Is it a practice? Is it an infatuation? Or is it just purely chemical and biological instinct? The Ancient Greeks seemed to think it was all of the above; however, the Oxford dictionary defines it as ‘an intense feeling of deep affection’. But surely it […]

A short blog by Charlotte on the complexity of truth and lies.

LYING What is lying? Lying is probably one of the most common wrong acts that humans carry out everyday. Most people would say that lying is always wrong… except when there’s a good reason for it, which means that it is not always wrong. But even  people who think lying is always wrong have a […]

Lottie blogs on winning the Rutland Radio Star Award.

Rutland Radio Star Award Last term, I was fortunate enough to be submitted as a candidate for the Rutland Radio Star Award competition by Mr Jones, my current Philosophy and Ethics teacher. Then, much to my surprise, a couple of weeks later Mr Jones received a phone call informing him that I had won the […]