Helping churches and schools bring RE to life in Reading
Julia Jones
REinspired’s home hub now supports 12 ecumenical churches in delivering parts of the Christian RE syllabus to their local primary schools. These relationships often flourish into much more than just RE sessions. Three secondary schools are also supported by a team of volunteers delivering sessions as diverse as Spirituality & Art to Evil & Suffering.
Volunteers representing 18 churches of different denominations engaged with over 11,500 individual children and young people last year, fulfilling our aim to bring RE to life for every child, in every school, every year.
The home hub is also the venue for training, resourcing and supporting, not only for the Earley and East Reading teams, but also new school/church relationships. Fledglings build their confidence and skills until they are ready to stand alone as REinspired partners.
If you would like to find out more about starting your own REinspired project, supporting our work financially or by volunteering contact Julia.
Anna Clarke and Hannah Ross
REinspired Caversham is a local hub run by Churches Together in Caversham. Two project managers and a brilliant team of volunteers from across Caversham churches, lead the school sessions.
Currently working with five local primary schools, reaching 1000’s of children each year, with topics such as:
- Is the Christmas story true?
- Is forgiveness always possible
- Is anything ever ‘eternal’?
Linda Galpin
REinspired Woodley is a local hub run and funded by Churches Together in Woodley. Project Leader, Linda Galpin and her team of volunteers work with all seven local primary schools.
Sessions range from Year 6 transition, to regular RE sessions for all ages in four schools. Volunteers represent four local churches from various denominations.
If you would like to get involved or find out more please contact Linda
Jill Bird and Debbie Schofield
REinspired Central Reading is a local hub run by Abbey Baptist Church and All Nations Church to combine their expertise and create a team of volunteers led by Debbie Schofield (All Nations children’s and family worker) and Jill Bird (REinspired team leader). The team works in two local Primary schools delivering RE sessions across the whole age range, with a total of over 800 pupil encounters each year.
This partnership of resources has led to many opportunities to invite local children and families to church events and deepen the school/church relationships further.
If you would like to get involved or find out more please contact Debbie or Jill.
Mary Day
REinspired Southcote is based at St Matthews Church. Local hub Leader, Mary Day and her team of six volunteers come from a range of denominations and work together to deliver a variety of sessions hosted in church.
Sessions range from Christmas, Baptism and Belonging, to Death and Funerals. These sessions have led to a strong partnership between the volunteers, church and school, with mutually beneficial and long-lasting relationships forming.
If you would like to get involved or find out more please contact Mary.
