Welcome to the St Giles’ Centre
The St Giles’ Centre is rooted in the heart of Wrexham in North East Wales, serving the common good of our local community through education, scholarship, and human formation.
Founded in January 2012 and generously core funded by the Wrexham (Parochial) Educational Foundation, the Centre exists to support learners, teachers, and schools across Wrexham County Borough. Our work is shaped by the Anglican tradition and informed by rigorous academic practice.
Our specialisms include religion in education and church school education. We are committed to teaching and learning that is intellectually serious, ethically grounded, and attentive to the real lives of children, young people, and educators.
We work for Wrexham, engaging thoughtfully with the needs, questions, and complexities of our local context.
The St Giles’ Centre is recognised nationally and internationally for the quality and integrity of its work. The wide interest in our work beyond Wrexham affirms its quality and relevance, and ensures that our local service is continually enriched by dialogue with the wider Church, the academy, and the educational community.
Our purpose
The St Giles’ Centre exists to:
- Offer subject specialist advisory support to teachers and schools in Wrexham.
- Create and share high quality, free resources and guidance for Religion, Values and Ethics (RVE), Religious Studies qualifications, and statutory collective worship in Wrexham.
- Design and deliver professional learning for teachers in Wrexham, supported by carefully developed resources.
- Initiate and contribute to research and publications to inform the Centre’s work.
- Embed research‑informed practice in our support for schools.
- Ensure schools in Wrexham are well informed and well prepared by providing updates on significant developments affecting RVE, RS and collective worship locally, nationally and further afield.
- Amplify the voices of teachers and learners in Wrexham at both local and national levels.
- Provide a fully bilingual website supporting schools across Wrexham, including access to relevant online resources.
Working in partnership
We value our long standing and close relationship with Wrexham County Borough Council and Lincoln Bishop University. Together, this collaboration strengthens our work and deepens its reach, enabling us to best serve schools, teachers, and learners in Wrexham.
Latest from the Blog
New Resources Room now open
The St Giles’ Centre is pleased to announce the opening of our new Resources Room. The Resources Room is now conveniently based at Ysgol Clywedog, Ruthin Road, Wrexham (LL13 7UB), in School Improvement Room 1, providing easy access for practitioners across the local authority. The Room houses hundreds of high‑quality resources designed to support teaching and learning…
Supporting teachers with progression in RVE
“Love the skills progression steps.” “The fantastic continuum. It has saved me a job!” “The whole day was very helpful and informative. Particularly: priorities for progression; planning mat for RVE; input from colleagues about the document ‘What does progression look like’; discussions.” These are just a few of the comments about the recent St Giles’…
What role should religious education play in addressing social concern issues?
So, what role should ‘religious education’ play in addressing areas of social concern? A recently published research article about how the social unrest of 2020/21 affects the teaching of religious education provides a stimulus for professional dialogue on the bigger question of what role/s religious education should play in addressing areas of social concern. The…
St Giles’ Centre shares Teacher Voice Survey research at Brighton conference
Tania ap Sion and Libby Jones from the St Giles’ Centre, Wrexham and Lincoln Bishop University attended the British Educational Research Association’s (BERA) conference at the University of Sussex, Brighton (9-11 September 2025), where they gave a presentation on the first findings of the national Teacher Voice Survey: Religion, Values and Ethics (RVE) in the…
Relationships between technology and religious education
Across Europe, more or less simultaneously, the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated (and stimulated) the use and development of technology in education settings, as new ways of teaching and learning had to be created in response to practical constraints introduced by temporary school closures. Although a sizeable body of research has examined this phenomenon from a range…
Let’s talk about progression in RVE – Free professional learning for Wrexham schools and settings
The St Giles’ Centre is offering a free whole day training event for primary practitioners in Wrexham on progression in Religion, Values and Ethics (RVE). The event will take place at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, Wrexham on Thursday, 3 July 2025 (see event flyer below). The event will offer practitioners the opportunity to engage in…
Welsh version of Challenging Religious Issues journal
The Welsh version of the popular A-level journal, Challenging Religious Issues, has been published on the St Giles’ Centre website. (The English version was published in November.) Issue 21 contains nine original articles written by subject experts from universities in the UK, the USA and Austria. Articles include: What Questions Can We Ask about Jesus’…
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