SACRE school visit form

SACRE members from time to time are interested in visiting local schools to see examples of Religious Education (RE) and Collective Worship (CW) taking place.  This is to help members understand the nature of both of these areas of the curriculum in Newham, so they can become better informed when SACRE meets to make decisions about how to support RE and CW in Newham schools.

It would be helpful to the SACRE member if the person they liaise with in setting up this visit at the school could have 15-30 minutes with them at the start or end of their visit to answer any questions about what they have or will see.

School Visit:

Date:

Contact:

Phone contact:

SACRE member to fill in and share from at next SACRE meeting:

Commentary: Write about what you saw, did on your visit

Compliment: Write about what you enjoyed from doing/seeing on this visit

Conversation: Are there any questions that the visit left you with that would be good to raise with SACRE at our next meeting? Please find out if the school feels supported by Newham SACRE around CW?

SACRE December 2014

Question that might be useful to think about on your visit

1. What is the title of this lesson, what are its learning aims/objectives?

2. How long is the lesson and to which year group?

3. What important RE questions have pupils been asked in the lesson today?

4. Can you see that pupils have been given suggestions of how to improve their work in their RE books?

5. Have you seen anything creative happening in the lesson?

6. Ask the teacher at the end of the lesson what are their biggest challenge at the moment with RE in their school, is there anyway SACRE could support them?

7. If you have the opportunity ask some pupils what they like most about their RE lessons, and what would make their learning in RE even better?

8. Did what the pupils did in the lesson match and complete the lesson aims and objectives?

9. Is there anything else you want to tell us about your visit to a RE lesson?