Understanding Christianity for Governors

The course will introduce governors to the new Understanding Christianity resource which is being used now in many of the Diocesan schools for the teaching of the Christianity element of R.E.

Following the report in 2012, there was a need to increase the rigour and content of the teaching and learning of Christianity within schools. The resource has been created by RE Today to provide a conceptual structure and numerous strategies to ensure children become more religiously literate.

The resource can be used to support the teaching of Christianity from EYFS to KS3. The course is aimed at all governors but may be particularly valuable to link governors for RE within all schools who are using the Understanding Christianity resource and approach.

Governors will be:
Made aware of the structure of the resource
Be able to describe the importance of it in terms of improving children’s religious literacy
Be able to challenge their individual school over how the resource is being used, with the background knowledge available
Be more confident in talking about ‘religious concepts’