20th March 2025
School News
Congratulations to staff and governors at Dunchurch Boughton CofE Junior Academy and St Bartholomew’s CofE Academy on their recent SIAMS inspections. They were both found to be living up to their foundation as Church schools, enabling pupils and adults to flourish. Read the reports here:
Dunchurch Boughton CofE Junior Academy
Headteacher Termly Briefing – Thurs 22 May – Live Event
Please do join us for the Summer Term Heads’ Briefing on Thursday 22 May 14.00-15.30 on Zoom. This is a live event but will also be recorded. The recording will be sent to those who book a place.
Interim Curriculum and Assessment Review
Professor Becky Francis and the review panel have published their initial findings and set out the next phase of work. You can read it here. The CofE National Society for Education responded to the initial consultation back in November. You can read that here.
Schools Required to Trial Staff Training on Religion and Worldviews
The DBE has been approached by Dr Céline Benoit, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham. She is a colleague who has worked with Jen Jenkins and Diocesan Heads on a number of RE projects including the New Agreed Syllabus. She is looking for expressions of interest from schools that would be interested in trialling Religion and Worldviews staff training resources which you can find here.
Schools taking part will be invited to fill in a before/after training questionnaire, and teachers will be invited to meet with Céline Benoit to talk about what worked well and what didn’t. To thank you for taking part of the project, each school will receive £500, which will be sent out by 31 July 2025 latest.
The project, if successful, will start on 1 May 2025 though Céline will of course work with schools to agree a timeline that would suit schools best.
If you are interested in taking part in this project (and we hope you will), or have questions, contact Céline by email: celine.benoit@nottingham.ac.uk
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