1. INSPIRE! …breathe IN!…. breathe OUT!...
being a blessing to schools and colleges
David Howell

2. SCHOOLS ~ Legal duty to Teach Religious Education
(1944 Education Act 1988 Education Reform Act)
Part of the basic curriculum
The principal aim of RE is to engage pupils in systematic enquiry into significant human questions which religion and worldviews address, so that they can develop the understanding and skills needed to appreciate and appraise varied responses to these questions, as well as develop responses of their own.
Swindon Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education ~

3. SCHOOLS ~ Legal duty to Deliver Collective Worship
(1944 Education Act, especially Circular 1.94
“…wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character…”)

4. SCHOOLS ~ Legal duty to promote SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
alongside Moral, Social and Cultural development
(SMSC)

5. SCHOOLS ~ Statistics As at January 2018 in England:
16,766 Primary Schools of which 37% are state-funded faith schools
3,436 Secondary Schools
of which 19% are state-funded faith schools
Which means that
1.9m pupils are in state-funded faith schools
28% of primary and 19% of secondary pupils

6. CHRISTIAN AGENDA Formal education informal education
faith ‘socialisation’
evangelisation
indoctrination

7. CHRISTIAN AGENDA SCHOOL AGENDA
Formal education
informal education
faith ‘socialisation’
evangelisation
indoctrination
Christian faith development
SCHOOL AGENDA

8. Spiritual Development Spiritual Development
CHRISTIAN AGENDA
CHRISTIAN AGENDA
Christian
Faith Development
Spiritual Development
Spiritual Development
SCHOOL AGENDA
SCHOOL AGENDA

9. Spiritual Development Spiritual Development
CHRISTIAN AGENDA
CHRISTIAN AGENDA
Christian
Faith Development
Spiritual Development
Spiritual Development
SCHOOL AGENDA
SCHOOL AGENDA

10. CHRISTIAN AGENDA SCHOOL AGENDA
It is possible to serve the school agenda and the Christian agenda at the same time
…through
Formal education (lessons and assemblies)
Informal education (inc. youth work in schools)
Extra-curricula activities
Pastoral support
Governance… etc., etc., etc…
SCHOOL AGENDA

11. WHY/HOW WE DO
WHAT WE DO

12. INSPIRE! …breathe IN!…. breathe OUT!...

13. INSPIRE! …breathe IN!…. breathe OUT!...

14. INSPIRE! …breathe IN!…. breathe OUT!...
Genesis 2:7
The Lord God took a handful of soil and made a man. God breathed life into the man…
Ezekiel 37:9
The Lord said: Ezekiel, now say to the wind, “The Lord God commands you to blow from every direction and to breathe life into these dead bodies, so they can live again.”
2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed [inspired] and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness

15. INSPIRE! …breathe IN!…. breathe OUT!...
John 20:22
Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

16. INSPIRE! …breathe IN!…. breathe OUT!...
We are called to breathe [God-given] life into our schools and colleges…
The Deanery CE Academy, Wichelstowe, Swindon

17. INSPIRE! …breathe IN!…. breathe OUT!...
Be a blessing to children and young people
in our schools and colleges