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School visits to church

Many pupils will visit a church or other place of worship as part of their religious education at school. Churches expecting to host school visits may find it useful to read the following material:

Guidance on visits for teachers and school managers, from the Curriculum section.

Relevant links to external web sites

The relevant schemes of work from the QCA / National Curriculum web site provide examples of the kind of objectives that the school teacher will be aiming to cover.

QCA schemes of work in religious education for KS1/2
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/religion/
Look for relevant titles, such as Unit 1F: What can we learn from visiting a church?

QCA schemes of work in religious education for KS3
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/secondary_RE/rel8e/
Look for relevant titles, such as Unit 8E: A visit to a place of worship (generic).


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