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About the Culham St Gabriel’s Trust

Culham St Gabriel’s is an endowed charitable trust dedicated to educational work in support of religious education. We are committed to excellence in religious education for all learners. We support teachers by helping them to offer the best, high-quality learning experiences in RE and spiritual and moral development. We also support work that promotes the links between school ethos, values, leadership and school improvement.

www.reonline.org.uk

New for RE:ONLINE• New resources for schools: buffets, banquets

and starters• Introductions on how to use RE:ONLINE• New guidance on Assessment beyond levels• Blogs and articles• Email a Believer: new Q&As• RE:ONLINE Café: new discussion threads• EdTech conference 2016.

www.teachre.co.uk

Teach RE Course (TREC)Key developments:•Updated modular system focusing on the context of RE, depth and breadth of knowledge and understanding•New modules to meet needs of primary colleagues and teachers with other specialisms, including Primary RE leadership•Negotiated arrangements for course completion, e.g., 1 month, 4 months, 1 year•New projects linked with SACREs•Contributions to RE:ONLINE

www.cstg.org.uk/grants/3forre/

3forRE• A way to help teachers of RE to take relevant Masters

courses in an affordable, manageable way • A unique scheme based on a three-way partnership

between you, your school and Culham St Gabriel’s Trust • An opportunity to take Masters-level professional

development at a fraction of the normal cost, and to see the impact of it in your own teaching and your colleagues’ work

• 60% CSTG, 10% school, 30% student • Universities: Liverpool Hope, Worcester, Warwick, Oxford,

Cumbria, Bishop Grosseteste, Canterbury Christ Church, Heythrop, UCL, Roehampton. New: Exeter, Newman, Winchester, York St John, Bristol.

www.cstg.org.uk/2015/01/getting-to-good-in-primary-re/

Getting to Good in Primary REThis is a two year project that aims to:•improve the quality of teaching and learning in RE in primary schools where the subject could benefit from improvement•build capacity in primary schools, so that improvements in primary RE can continue and grow after the two-year project is complete•disseminate improvements by drawing the schools into networks of local, regional or national support.

www.cstg.org.uk/2014/02/smsc-provision/

Spirituality and Values

Working with the RSA and the Schools Linking Network:•‘Schools with Soul’ publication•SMSCD courses•157 group for Further Education•Collective worship guidance: www.assemblies.org.uk

www.cstg.org.uk/events/energising-re-2015/

Energising RE: Wokefield 3-4 October 2015

The Conference for RE Teachers aims to:•inform good practice: using research to deepen understanding of how religion and belief are changing in the UK, and the impact of this on RE•build strong strategies: understanding how RE is developing and where its future could lie•share good work: strengthening collaborative networks focused on improving standards in REN.B. Linda Woodhead now confirmed as keynote speaker.

Other initiatives• Working with the REC and member

organisations on the Regional Strategy: ‘hubs’ – but not new structures

• Keeping in touch with and responding to developments affecting RE: CORAB, Clarke & Woodhead, APPG...

• Making more connections between the CSTG initiatives – a more integrated service.

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