Stephen Pett, National RE Adviser

Stephen was a subject leader in secondary community schools for 14 years, teaching 11-19s, including GCSE and A level. For seven of these years, he was an Advanced Skills Teacher, working on teaching and learning in my own school, and supporting primary and secondary schools with RE across the county.

Stephen was also Chair of his local SACRE for 9 years, helping to support a number of SACREs, three of them for at least 10 years, which has included developing their agreed syllabuses and support material, and delivering training and CPD.

He loves working with teachers and has run many training days and workshops – from syllabus launch conferences with hundreds of teachers to in-school sessions with a handful of staff.

Stpehen really enjoys developing new approaches in RE and the resources to equip teachers. He has led the development of Understanding Christianity, and the multidisciplinary RE project for the Big Questions in Classrooms programme. He was project leader for the RE Council’s religion and worldviews project, and is currently leading on our Understanding Muslims, Understanding Islam project.

He has enjoyed working with the Understanding Unbelief and Explaining Atheism research projects, developing classroom resources as part of their public engagement strand.