BSA webinar – Understanding and celebrating religions and beliefs in boarding schools, 26.11.21

26 November @ 10.00am – 11.00am

Course Outline

The webinar aims to empower participants to confidently plan class, boarding house or whole school activities and events around diverse beliefs and religions in preparation for the Summer term 2021.

Training topics will include:

Lat will present ideas and materials to support and inspire staff. Creating an inclusive school for all protected characteristics is outlined in the Equality Act and feeds into many policies (Anti-bullying, Equal opportunities, RSE and inclusion). This session promotes activities and learning that support these standards. Lat’s approach is to illustrate from some of the challenging areas that religious inclusivity can present how to move – in your own setting – towards practice that affirms young people in their own identities, including a variety of religious and non-religious identities.

Learning outcomes:

Participants will gain a range of ideas and feel more confident to develop and plan for the summer term and beyond on ways inclusive of all religions and worldviews.

A range of practical strategies, to adopt, adapt or use as a platform for innovation, will be described.

Audience: 

• Deputy Head, Inclusion Lead, Head of Boarding, Teaching and Boarding staff, especially RE teachers.

Cost:

• Member fee – £60, non-member -£120

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Speaker: Lat Blaylock, RE advisor and editor of RE Today magazine 

Lat is a primary and secondary specialist. He is Editor of ‘REtoday magazine’ and has written many RE resources published by RE Today, including ‘Picturing Christianity’, ‘Big, Big Questions’ (a package for music in RE) and ‘Spiritual Engagement’ (a folder of ideas for 16-19 RE days), as well as contributing to many resources such as Understanding Christianity. He taught RE, Humanities and PSHE in Leicester for eleven years.

Since joining RE Today his work has been wide-ranging and varied, and includes advising teachers, schools, SACREs, dioceses and local authorities. His CPD training courses attract thousands of teachers every year, covering themes from poetry, art and creativity to assessment, GCSE and curriculum planning. He also runs day conferences for gifted and talented pupils and for 16-19s. He has made seven series of RE broadcasts with the BBC, including the award winning ‘My Life My Religion’ (2015) and recently has been involved in advising the BBC on the BBC ‘Religions of the World’ and ‘A to Z of Religions and Belief’ series (2017). Lat was the specialist writer for the RE Council’s 2013 national RE curriculum framework.