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More than 20 great ideas to develop your SACRE

  • Contact your local MP and encourage membership and involvement with the APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) for RE
  • Engage with initial teacher training (ITT) providers and get some of them involved in SACRE or presenting to a meeting
  • Engage with the media locally and nationally and with social media to counter wider public ignorance (refer to Religion Media Centre)
  • Encourage schools to sign up for the RE Quality Mark (REQM); write to schools and congratulate them when they are awarded the REQM
  • Set up a meeting for a school which has won an award to promote understanding of the benefit of the REQM process for their quality of RE
  • Write to academy chains and free schools in your area asking how SACRE can support their RE/CW work; include teachers from these schools as representatives on SACRE Group C
  • Get your local authority Overview & Scrutiny Committee to engage with SACRE’s Annual Report; offer to attend a meeting to answer any questions
  • Encourage young people’s contributions to your SACRE meetings; develop a youth SACRE and interfaith work between schools
  • Hold SACRE meetings in schools or local places of worship and include a training session for teachers
  • Report schools who do not meet statutory requirements for RE to the local authority; use NATRE’s staff workforce data from the DfE to follow up about who is teaching RE and for how much of the timetable (secondary schools)
  • Make links with post-16 RE providers in your area
  • Develop a resource collection for loan to schools
  • Have a SACRE sub-committee to support high quality collective worship in schools; share high quality resources and approaches
  • Sponsor or run competitions – artwork, poetry, visit to places of worship
  • Work to support faith group visitors into schools; provide top tips or some training to visitors/places of worship
  • Develop a Young Ambassadors project
  • Contribute an RE/CW section to the LA’s governor newsletters; attend and offer input at governor conferences and other events.
  • Rotate Chairmanship through the four groups of SACRE
  • Use the NASACRE self-assessment form to regularly review your SACRE; develop an annual action plan for your work
  • Create an identity for your SACRE – something that helps the LA, schools & faith groups understand who you are
  • Upskill SACRE members using NASACRE training materials which are free to use online
  • Visit schools to see RE and acts of Collective Worship
  • Write to schools to congratulate them on GCSE and ‘A’ Level exam success
  • Hold Spirited arts / poetry exhibitions / competitions
  • Train SACRE members to understand the law around withdrawal and how to help schools deal with withdrawal requests
  • Offer SACRE expertise to schools, supporting issues around RE or CW
  • Promote good RE news stories to local newspapers
  • Plan RE conferences that promote high quality RE and provide schools with impact evidence for Ofsted