Leadership

Subject leadership is a vital part of the school leadership journey as whole and is an increasing focus for Ofsted within their inspection framework.

“Subject leaders play a crucial role in ensuring that RE is taught effectively and that teachers are supported in delivering high-quality lessons. They are responsible for setting a clear vision for the subject, providing professional development opportunities, and ensuring that the curriculum is well-planned and implemented.”

Ofsted, Deep and Meaningful, 2024

For further details, you can read the full report here (GOV.UK) (GOV.UK) .

At NATRE we want to equip leaders of RE at all levels with the tools and resources that they need to ensure that the RE in their schools is engaging, challenging, high quality and exciting for their pupils. Below you can scroll through some useful resources available to you from NATRE, as well as find some additional links to other useful organisations.

Enhance Your Leadership Skills with the Primary Subject Leader Toolkit

NATRE’s Primary Subject Leader Toolkit exists to equip leaders of RE at all levels with the tools and resources that they need to ensure that the RE in their schools is engaging, challenging, high quality and exciting for their pupils. This page has been composed by serving primary school teachers and is filled with resources to support both experienced leaders and those who are new to the role. The executive committee are currently working on a resource that will support Heads of Department and senior leaders of RE in secondary schools with their leadership journeys.

Primary Subject Leader Toolkit

#REChatUK – a monthly discussion on Twitter/X about current themes and developments within the RE community.

A monthly discussion on Twitter/X about current themes and developments within the RE community.

#REChatUK

Understanding the processes involved in constructing high quality curricula.

As the subject association for teachers of RE, NATRE strives to support teachers to consider curriculum design issues. The curriculum symposium was a face to face-to-face event to develop curriculum planning and thinking skills, enabling teachers to be more confident in their understanding and development of high quality curricula and to enhance the understanding of processes involved in constructing high quality curricula.

Curriculum Symposium

Get involved in the conversation

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Other useful resources that you can find from external RE Organisations and individuals

RE Hubs

On RE Hubs website you can valuable opportunities for developing your subject leadership effectively.

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Culham St Gabriel’s Leadership Programme

Culham St Gabriel’s Trust (CSTG) have developed a programme for emerging leaders of Religious Education to expand and deepen their reflections on educational leadership in the subject through mentoring, research, networking and being part of a leadership community. the programme develops leaders in the following areas: curriculum, classroom, politics and research. You can find out more about this exciting opportunity by clicking the following link. Leadership Scholarship Programme – Culham St Gabriel’s (cstg.org.uk)

There is lots of helpful information from RE:Online for subject knowledge and leadership

Mary Myatt’s leadership material 

Mary is an well-renowned education adviser, writer and speaker. She curates Myatt & Co where she works with colleagues to develop thoughtful work on the curriculum and wider school improvement.

Visit website and Follow her on Twitter: Mary Myatt

RE blogs

RE online blogs will improve your understanding of current issues in RE
Knowledge rich is not a knowledge organiser
Against Worldviews blog
How I use technology to digitally enhance teaching and learning in RE
Curriculum building in RE at KS3
A quiet education: challenging the extrovert ideal in our schools

Good leadership support can be found throughout the NATRE website, but we hope to collate and signpost relevant material here. NATRE members get access to more materials so you may consider joining if you aren’t already a member.