RE Coordinators Subject Network Meeting: Southwark Schools (24_25)

Aims

These sessions are designed to ensure that school and curriculum leaders are up to date with any guidance in these subjects. It will provide an opportunity to collaborate, network and share best practice with other local colleagues. There will also be practical help and support in how to manage these subjects.

Meet with our RE Consultant, Stacey Burman, on the 12th September from 2:30pm to discuss and define a solid pedagogy model for RE in Southwark that can be replicated in all our classrooms. 

Sessions will be at Tooley Street 

Summary

Working on Our New RE Curriculum

The next session will include a devised RE Curriculum Map . This includes RE Enquiry questions highlighted by schools in previous sessions, and the learning has been sequenced around the key ideas and concepts so there is a continuous learning journey running through.

For each unit Stacey has added some suggested substantive knowledge content, including some of the key concepts discussed and some comments about why the units have been ordered this way. In addition, some of these units have been divided into smaller parts, so that there is less substantive knowledge for teachers to have to get their heads round at a time. 

Thank you to those who are trialling the sample unit in your schools. This includes a lesson by lesson break down of suggested activities with up-to-date resources to support. There is also some key subject knowledge for teachers for each lesson, which I hope is also helpful. 

The autumn session on 12/09/24 will start from 2.30pm at 160 Tooley Street, and will be running till 5pm to allow those teachers to join us who are unable to leave school earlier. 

We shall be sharing further curriculum materials- including unit outlines ready for teaching from Autumn, as well as supporting Subject Leads to deliver CPD in their own schools to familiarise teachers with the requirements of the new syllabus.

We will also be sharing strategies for how to successfully implement the delivery of the new syllabus and curriculum materials, and if time, also share some pupil samples. 

ALL schools are therefore invited to share artwork, learning samples and pupil books to this Subject Leaders session. 

RE Subject Network – for primary, secondary and special schools

In addition, to support your school’s RE subject leadership and learn more, the next RE subject CPD and network meeting is on 12^th Sep, we look forward to welcoming your RE subject leader at Tooley St.

There will be an opportunity for staff to attend from 15:45 if unable to leave school earlier. 

In the meantime PLEASE do get in touch with Stacey (sfburman@gmail.com) to let me know your initial thoughts and any feedback about these materials.