The aims of religious education Click to get info
Religious education in schools celebrates the diversity of religious and human experience.
Every maintained school in England must provide a basic curriculum (RE, sex education and the National Curriculum).
Religious Education is a statutory subject of the basic curriculum whilst not being part of the National Curriculum.
SACRE Click to get info
By law each Local Authority (LA) is required to establish a Standing Advisory Council on religious education (SACRE).
The role of a SACRE is to:
- Advise the LA on matters connected with religious education (RE) in community schools and foundation schools which do not have a religious character
- Ensure RE is taught by the local Agreed Syllabus
- To advise the authority and its teachers on matters concerning collective worship
- Determine on behalf of the LA whether it is appropriate for the requirements to provide daily collective worship according to the legal requirements to be modified for all or some of the pupils of the school
- Produce and publish an Annual Report of its work
In order that they can bring a wide range of interests and talents to this work, a SACRE is made up of four groups:
- Group A Christian denominations (other than the Church of England) and other faiths represented within the LA. In Waltham Forest, this group has representatives from a wide range of faiths and beliefs
- Group B The Church of England
- Group C Teachers' professional associations / teachers in the LA
- Group D The Local Authority which in Waltham Forest includes Elected Members from the Majority and Minority parties, a representative of the LA and representatives of Governors of local schools
Members of these groups are nominated by their respective organisations.
Dates of SACRE meetings for 2019 Click to get info
Spring 2019
Wednesday 23 January, 5.30pm: WF Town Hall – Room 3
Wednesday 27 March, 5.30pm: WF Town Hall – Room 3
Summer 2019
Wednesday 24 April, 5.30pm: WF Town Hall – Room 3
Wednesday 10 July, 5.30pm: WF Town Hall – Room 3
Refreshments will be provided.
SACRE meeting agendas and minutes Click to get info
2015
- SACRE Agenda September 2015 (23KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes September 2015 (356KB PDF)
- SACRE ASC Agenda November 2015 (20KB PDF)
- SACRE ASC Minutes November 2015 (220KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda November 2015 (25KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes November 2015 (260KB PDF)
2016
- SACRE ASC Agenda January 2016 (20KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda January 2016 (25KB PDF)
- SACRE ASC Minutes January 2016 (197KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes January 2016 (214KB PDF)
- SACRE ASC Minutes March 2016 (161KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda March 2016 (24KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes March 2016 (300KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes April 2016 (229KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda October 2016 (45KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes October 2016 (66KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes November 2016 (80KB PDF)
2017
- SACRE Minutes January 2017 (240KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes March 2017 (170KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda May 2017 (45KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda June 2017 (40KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes June 2017 (185KB PDF)
- SACRE AGM October 2017 (245KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda November 2017 (95KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes November 2017 (251KB PDF)
2018
- SACRE Agenda January 2018 (13KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes January 2018 (180KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda March 2018 (229KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes March 2018 (185KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda May 2018 (194KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda October 2018 (253KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes October 2018 (426KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda November 2018 (428KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes November 2018 (309KB PDF)
2019
- SACRE Agenda January 2019 (342KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda 27 March 2019 (94KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes 27 March 2019 (63KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda 24 April 2019 (123KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes 24 April 2019 (233KB PDF)
- ASC Minutes June 2019 (116KB PDF)
- SACRE Agenda 10 July 2019 (86KB PDF)
- SACRE Minutes 10 July 2019 (52KB PDF)
Agreed syllabus for Religious Education - Nursery, Foundation and KS1 and 2 (Primary) 2016 edition Click to get info
- KS1 and 2 Syllabus - PDF (2,1MB PDF file)
Agreed syllabus for Religious Education - KS3, KS4 and KS5 (Secondary) 2009 edition Click to get info
Note: Internet Links featured in the syllabus must be checked regularly and before use, some of these documents are in PDF format. To view them you may need to download a free copy of adobe acrobat reader.
KS3
- Islam - unit 9 (138KB PDF file)
- Islam - unit 10 (136KB PDF file)
- Buddhism - unit 4 (164KB PDF file)
- Buddhism - unit 5 (151KB PDF file)
- WF agreed syllabus Buddhism, KS3 (30KB PDF file)
- Sikhism - unit 6 (82KB PDF file)
- Sikhism - unit 6 (181 PDF file)
- Transition bridging unit, KS3 (173 PDF file)
KS4 and KS5
- Introduction (367KB PDF File)
- Bridging units (521KB PDF File)
- Buddhism (486KB PDF File)
- Christianity (1.2MB PDF File)
- Hinduism (748KB PDF File)
- Islam (436KB PDF File)
- Judaism (1.1 MB PDF File)
- Sikhism (596KB PDF File)
- Extra units (1.9MB PDF File)
- Post 16 (1.3MB PDF File)
- Glossary (489KB PDF File)
SACRE annual reports Click to get info
Contact Click to get info
SACRE - Religious Education
Governor Services Clerk to SACRE Walthamstow Town Hall,
Room 001,
Forest Road,
Walthamstow
London
E17 4JF
Telephone: 020 8496 6351
Email: governor.services@walthamforest.gov.uk