REsilience - Religious Education Council of England and Wales

The RE Council of England and Wales has successfully bid for funding from the DCSF to develop a training programme for religious education teachers on community cohesion and preventing violent extremism. This is known as the REsilience project. The project is scheduled to last until 31 March 2011 and will be managed by the RE Council in conjunction with Penzer Allen Ltd.

REsilience website launched

Building confidence to handle contentious issues in RE

The website for the REsilience programme has now been launched at www.re-silience.org.uk

Visit the site to sign up for a regular newsletter on the project and to register your interest in the programme when it rolls out.

REsilience update February 2010

As the roll out of training in September draws ever closer, a key priority has been the drawing up of gateway documents which will be trialed as part of a Pilot Study during the spring term. These are based on the different questions in the Self Evaluation Questionnaire which schools will complete prior to actual contact from a mentor. The Project Team and mentor consultants have produced these documents but where necessary expertise may be sought from other quarters to ensure that they are of the highest professional standard. The pilot study consists of about 12 schools and will be carried out by mentor consultants. The school sample is varied and includes selective, non-selective, single sex and mixed, special, rural and urban, strong departments, departments wanting to improve and departments with non-RE-specialists, VC/VA , etc. The Project Team has also been considering how best to evaluate the pilot study and the actual training.

Purpose

To act as the project board, as a sub-committee of the Board of the RE Council with its full authority, to ensure that the project is properly planned , that all products meet the highest professional standards and that it is delivered on schedule and within budget.