Being on your local SACRE

Before your first meeting

• Find out who's who - especially the Chair, the Clerk and Officer
• Ask the Clerk for the username and password for the National Association of SACRE's website (NASACRE)
• Read this document from NASACRE that introduces the main duties and functions of SACRE – Your local SACRE
• Ask the Clerk for the SACRE development plan, the minutes of the last meeting and the agenda for the next meeting
• Be clear about where and when your first meeting is
• Find a copy of the Locally Agreed Syllabus (LAS) - it may only be available online and you may need a password

Preparing for a SACRE meeting

• Teachers on SACRE will find it helpful to check the NASACRE and NATRE websites for current RE news
• Look at your local SACRE website to familiarise yourself with the members and its current actions
• It is great to bring information and ideas from the Local Group you are a part of: many members of SACREs do not see the inside of a classroom

At the meetings

• Raise any issues from the classroom that may be obstructing teachers from delivering good quality RE in your locality
• Be willing to share your own experience from 'front-line' RE
• Get to know your fellow SACRE members, there may be useful links for you and the teachers in your local area
• Take note of any area you can make contributions, remember, you are the one in the classroom and are in the perfect position to trial ideas

Between meetings

• Keeping checking the NASACRE and SACRE websites and email relevant information to the Chair of SACRE
• Request for important issues to be added to the agenda of the next meeting
• Report any information that is useful to teachers in your local area
• Continue reporting any issues from the classroom to SACRE
• Share the document 30+ things a SACRE can do with the members of SACRE. Inspire and lead them to act upon some of these ideas.
  

Help and support

1. SACRE advice – print friendly version of the above
2. Your local SACRE – an introduction to the key roles in SACREs and comes from the NASACRE website. We would like to thank NASACRE for giving us permission to host this on our website.
3. 30+ things a SACRE can do
4. Exemplar SACRE letter RE provision in LA maintained schools
5. Exemplar SACRE letter RE provision in academies
6. Funding for SACREs 2017
7. Exemplar SACRE follow up letter RE provision
8. How to make a complaint about the curriculum in a local authority maintained school

9. A case study of a complaint about the curriculum in an academy
10. School workforce article for SACREs
11. *NEW* Guidance for teacher representatives on SACREs using school websites to support their evaluation of RE