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SACRE Newsletter for RE and Collective Worship RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2012 Issue No: 12 Contact: Annie Chamberlain Date: May 2012 Tel: 01823 356037 Fax: 01823 355332 Email: [email protected] In this issue: • RE celebration week: Somerset schools 2012 • The Barbara Agutter Award: entries now due! • SACRE guidance on collective worship • RE network meetings for North Somerset schools • New schemes of learning on AMV website • Godly/spirited play • Inter faith week reports • Faith shorts • All party parliamentary group for RE launches • St Gabriel’s teachers weekend • Ofsted publications on SMSCD • Listening to children and young people talking • Art in heaven 2012 • Does religious education work? • Further support in RE for North Somerset schools • Ready reference update • Visits and speakers SACRE Newsletter - Summer 1 RE CELEBRATION WEEK: SOMERSET SCHOOLS 2012 Ralph Bullock, Headteacher, Bishop’s Hull Primary School, Taunton, writes: SACRE members are continuing to make all necessary arrangements, for what will hopefully be a special week of RE across Somerset schools. The event is planned to take place in the week before the half term break, 22nd – 26 October 2012 at five venues across the county. To date we have secured Heathfield Secondary/Tacchi Morris in Taunton and Preston Secondary in Yeovil. There will be opportunities for up to ten schools (including the host school) to share dance/drama performances and children’s work at the venue which is most convenient to them. Each host school will decide on a day within the week when the RE celebrations will take place. The morning will be for setting up a display of children’s work and for rehearsals and the afternoon will be for actual performances in front of the other schools taking part, SACRE members and any parents who may wish to come along and share the experience. In order to prevent additional work for everyone in the first half of the autumn term, you are encouraged to save pieces of work from 2011-2012 for display purposes. Our aim is to celebrate RE and not a particular school’s achievements and the work will be displayed with no school name. Details of how much display space will be available, will be sent later. So, please start planning for this exciting event by collecting children’s work now and by thinking about bringing your Autumn Term 2012 RE alive, through the performance arts. You can find many ideas for creative and imaginative RE on the Celebrating RE website at: www.celebratingre.org/index.php/what-can-you-do. SACRE will be writing to all schools again very soon with final confirmation of all five venues, the date they have each chosen for the event and in order to get a firm commitment of involvement to aid the overall planning process. If you can’t wait for the letter and you wish to declare your interest now, then please contact Ralph Bullock [email protected] or Dave Francis [email protected]. I am looking forward to a fantastic week of RE across the county. THE BARBARA AGUTTER AWARD: ENTRIES NOW DUE! Why not tie in your ideas for the Somerset SACRE RE Celebration Week (above) with an entry for this year’s Barbara Agutter Award? SACRE member, Mike Tedstone, reported that Buckler’s Mead, were sad to give back the Award banner. He also reported the enthusiasm of this year’s winners, Berrow CofE Primary, on receiving the banner. The closing date for this year’s competition is 15 June 2012 and further details and the application form can be found on the Somerset SACRE website at: www.six.somerset.gov.uk/ > Barbara Agutter Award. SACRE Newsletter - Summer 2 SACRE GUIDANCE ON COLLECTIVE WORSHIP Somerset SACRE has engaged in a major new revision of its guidance for schools on Collective Worship. The new guidance contains answers to such questions as ‘Why collective worship?’ and ‘What is collective worship?’ and includes a clear explanation of the legal requirements, as well as advice on spiritual development, how to plan a collective worship programme and how to brief visitors who come to contribute to it. There is a guide for Headteachers and governors as to their responsibilities for collective worship and a checklist that could be used as a basis for discussion of the quality of the programme. In addition, there is a list of recommended websites for finding materials for acts of collective worship and a sample policy ready to be adapted for your school’s own needs. The new guidance can be found on the Somerset SACRE website at: www.six.somerset.gov.uk/sacre/ > ‘Collective Worship’. NEW SCHEMES OF LEARNING ON AMV WEBSITE Three new exemplars for our locally agreed syllabus, Awareness, Mystery and Value (AMV) 2011 (http://amv.somerset.gov.uk/) have just been uploaded to the website: • Key Stage 1 Unit 8: ‘Why is our World Special?’ • Key Stage 2 Unit 1: ‘What is important to Me?’ • Key Stage 2 Unit 8: ‘What do people believe about life?’ More exemplars are due to follow towards the end of term when the agreed syllabus schemes of learning group has completed its work. GODLY/SPIRITED PLAY Primary RE teachers – have you considered using ‘Godly Play’ or, as it has been renamed by the National Association of Teachers of RE (NATRE), ‘Spirited Play’, in your lessons? Originally developed in America by Jerome Berryman as part of an approach to Christian nurture, the technique has been adapted for use in British RE by a number of Church of England Dioceses. See for example, the workshop offered by the Diocese of Bath & Wells at: http://www.bathandwells.org.uk/children/training/ NATRE members can see an example of spirited play in action at: http://www.natre.org.uk/bigpicture/pages/casestudies_films.php Find out more about godly play at http://www.godlyplay.org.uk/ INTER FAITH WEEK REPORTS The Inter Faith Network UK has reported that in this Diamond Jubilee year, there will be a special extended Inter Faith Week running from 18 to 27 November 2012. This is in anticipation of additional activities taking place because of the Jubilee, including some with a link both to the Week and to the ‘A Year of Service’ programme. See www.interfaithweek.org/ for more details. SACRE Newsletter - Summer 3 FAITH SHORTS The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is continuing to hold its global film competition, ‘Faith Shorts’, which asks young people to make short films about how their faith inspires them. This year’s competition is now open. Any young person aged between 14 – 27 is invited to submit a short film showing how faith impacts their life and the lives of those around them. For further details and to see entries from previous winners go to: www.tonyblairfaithfoundation.org/projects/faithshorts. NATRE NEWS Many thanks to the National Association of Teachers of RE (NATRE) for the following items. To join NATRE and subscribe to RE Today magazine and the termly RE publications, go to www.natre.org.uk/join.php ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP FOR RE LAUNCHES An All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) has been set up to support RE. The group, which has been set up by Stephen Lloyd, MP, is intended to: • Provide a medium through which MPs, Peers and other organisations with an interest in religious education can discuss the current provision of RE in schools, colleges, universities and academies • Act as a forum for all who share matters of common concern in promoting the highest possible standards of religious education • Press for continuous improvement in religious education • Promote a clear, positive image and public understanding of religious education • Advocate that every young person experiences a personally inspiring and academically rigorous RE in religious and non-religious worldviews The group’s first meeting will be on 11 June. To see if your MP has joined the APPG go to http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/memi01.htm. Why not write to your MP to enquire if they know about the group and would be willing to join? ST GABRIEL’S TEACHERS WEEKEND The 11th St Gabriel's Weekend, entitled ‘From Here to Outstanding – Pushing the Boundaries for RE’, will be held at Wokefield Park Conference Centre on the weekend of 29 -30 September 2012. The conference is free to those teachers chosen to attend as it is funded by the St Gabriel's Trust. To register an interest in being invited to the conference, contact Jessie Sim at the Culham Institute: [email protected] or see the website for further details: www.sgconference.net. SACRE Newsletter - Summer 4 LISTENING TO CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE TALKING NATRE’s Listening to Children & Young People Talking online, interactive database of children and young people’s responses to a series of religious and spiritual questions continues to be extremely popular. A recent addition to the resource is a collection of video clips of young people responding to questions at the heart of the database. To view the video clips, carry out a search as usual and when the results of your search are presented you will see any video clips available at the top of the screen: www.natre.org.uk/db. OFSTED PUBLICATIONS ON SMSCD Ofsted has recently published two documents which are of help to RE: 1. A case study showing how a secondary school transformed staff and students’ perceptions of RE by reinvigorating teaching, the curriculum and the profile of the subject across the school. The case study also has some value for schools that are reviewing provision for spiritual, moral, social and cultural development (SMSCD): See http://bit.ly/x4YksQ2. 2. Subsidiary guidance to inspectors which includes reference to the inspection of SMSCD in the curriculum.
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