INSPIRE Project
INSPIRE is a project for young peacemakers. 100 years after the end of World War I, we want to inspire a new generation, not only to prevent war but to build peace. INSPIRE is a call to action to create … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Secondary
Peer Mediation
Peer mediation is a form of conflict resolution in which trained student leaders help their peers work together to resolve everyday disputes. Participation in peer mediation is voluntary, and with the exception of information that is illegal or life-threatening, all matters discussed in … Continue reading →
Lord Mayor’s Annual Peace Lecture 2017
Canon Dr Paul Oestreicher delivered the following speech in Coventry Cathedral on 13 November 2017. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their nuclear weapons into MRI scanners NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE (Micah 4:3 adapted) We … Continue reading →
Reconciliation in the SACRE Syllabus 2017-2022
Strand: Living contains Key Question: 3.3b What is so radical about Jesus? (With special reference to reconciliation, forgiveness, loving one’s enemies and the related work of Coventry Cathedral) The suggested content for learning include: Use material from Coventry Cathedral, such … Continue reading →
Peace in the SACRE Syllabus 2017-2022
Coventry and Warwickshire SACREs decided to work together and agree on a syllabus that promotes good, effective and thought- provoking RE across both city and county; a syllabus that both builds bridges and engages with the aim of peace and … Continue reading →
Summary of SACRE Syllabus 2017-2022
The following is an extract from the Coventry and Warwickshire Agreed Syllabus for RE, 2017–2022 [gview file=”http://coventrycityofpeace.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Coventry-and-Warwickshire-Agreed-Syllabus-SACRE-2017-Extract.pdf”]
Continue reading →Peace and Religious Education (RE)
Schools have to teach religious education (RE) but parents can withdraw their children for all or part of the lessons. Pupils can choose to withdraw themselves once they’re 18. Local councils are responsible for deciding the RE syllabus, but faith … Continue reading →
Peace and Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE)
About SACRE The purpose of the Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE) is to advise the Local Authority on matters concerning religious education in community schools and the religious education provision to be made in accordance with an Agreed … Continue reading →
British Values
As of November 2014, schools must now promote British values. Advice from the DfE is to do so through SMSC, though Ofsted will assess it through the curriculum too. Ofsted will inspect these ‘fundamental British values’: democracy the rule of … Continue reading →
Spiritual Moral Social and Cultural Development (SMSC)
All schools in England must show how well their pupils develop in spiritual, moral, social and cultural development (SMSC). Peace studies fit in with this. Resources http://www.doingsmsc.org.uk/ http://www.doingsmsc.org.uk/citizenship/
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