• REinspired is a Christian charity based in Reading on the M4 corridor in Berkshire where we work with 20 local churches, 11 primary schools and 2 secondary schools.

    Our vision is to see churches fully engaged in supporting their local schools  in religious education and the spiritual development of pupils.

    Locally our mission is making religious education in schools exciting and life-changing through encounters with local people of faith within an educational framework helping children to answer the question: "What do Christians believe about...".

    Nationally our mission is help churches across the country do what we do.

    Intro

  • From Christmas and Easter sessions that you might expect to more challenging topics such as Death and Difficult Questions, our teams of lay volunteers from local churches deliver around 100 lessons for whole year groups of up to 70 primary school children in both churches and schools.  Teachers can choose from around 50 off-the-shelf lessons that are fast moving, multi-sensory and use a variety of learning strategies. We happily work with teachers to tailor lessons  to meet specific learning objectives and develop new lessons to meet the way individual schools implement the local RE syllabus.

    Primary RE

  • We provide a Christian voice where it helps the schools we work with most: from class-based hands-on Holy Week lessons for year 7 to "Any Questions" with representatives of other faith communities for year 8; from "Christian perspectives on ethical issues" for year 9 to conference-style events on relevant topics for 6th formers.

    Secondary RE

  • We provide a single point of contact for local schools wishing to engage with church ministers to enhance their collective worship.

    Collective Worship

  • If you share our vision for engaging with local schools through RE we'd like to talk to you. We can help you sell the vision to  your church and schools, provide you with training and lesson resources, mentor your team to give your project a flying start, provide on-going support and networking opportunities with other groups.

    Supporting Churches

  • Whether you want to learn about our approach to RE and the techniques we use to bring Christianity alive, or whether you want to learn how to work effectively with local faith communities we can help you. We regularly run public training days in Reading in our methodology. We can run inset sessions at your school too on our methodology or on topics such as story telling, collective worship, prayer. Just tell us what you need.

    Supporting Teachers

  • The Story of Reinspired: Developing creative partnerships between churches and schools 
    by David Skinner, Paul Haynes and Jane Earl is published by BRF on 18 February 2011. You can order it on Amazon now.

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Vacancy in REinspired Caversham

Project Co-Ordinator wanted for REinspired Caversham

Churches Together in Caversham has established REinspired Caversham, a project working with local primary schools to enhance the delivery of R.E. With Caversham Thameside and Mapledurham PCC as the employing body, we are looking to appoint a person to work with the churches in Caversham to enable sessions on aspects of Christianity to be delivered in local schools.

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www.re-inspired.net launched

We are delighted to announce the launch of www.re-inspired.net which went live on 4th July 2011.

The new website provides an overview of REinspired and the methodology described in The Story of REinspired as well as downloadable copies of the lesson plans and resources from the book. More significantly if offers access to additional articles, case studies and a growing collection of our other lesson plans.

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Act now to save RE

Have you signed the RE Act Campaign organised by Premier Christian Media yet?

If not this may be your last chance to help ensure GCSE RE is included in this crucial new curriculum and ultimately, put back in its rightful place - at the heart of humanities.

Click here to visit the RE Act website and add your name to the 140000+ names already on the petition.

 

Coming soon...

Our new website www.re-inspired.net will be unveiled soon with:

  • Full versions of the lesson plans in the book together with resouces to delvier them.
  • Additional lesson plans and new ones coming regularly.
  • Advice for churces and schools on getting started.

Register now to hear as soon as it goes live.

 
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