Worcestershire Primary RE Conference 2026

A day of inspiring support and ideas for your RE classroom. A suite of practical ideas and guidance for supporting the revised 2025 agreed syllabus, from current theory to classroom practice. Clear advice on what makes for rich, engaging RE for you and your pupils – as well as meeting Ofsted requirements.​

Date: Wednesday 03 June 2026, 9.00AM–3:30PM
Location: TBC
Cost: £100 per delegate, or £85 for second delegate from the same school.

Programme

9.00 Welcome and introduction Jenny Lockwood, Chair of SACRE

9.15-10.30 Session 1: Oracy in RE for 5-11s Lat Blaylock, RE Today

This session will present five flexible approaches to RE learning that enable pupils as listeners and talkers to deepen their understandings of religious and non-religious worldviews in the Worcestershire syllabus.

10.30-11.00 Break

11.00-12.00 Session 2: Enriching encounters with Muslims & Islam Stephen Pett, RE Today

The religion and worldviews approach looks to balance study of mainstream teachings with the everyday experiences of adherents within a tradition - ‘lived religion’, as it is known. To do that, we need to hear from Muslims to find out about the impact of being Muslim on their lives. This session will introduce some case studies and teaching and learning ideas for developing these richer encounters, for 5-11s.

12.00-12.45 Lunch

12.45-1.45 Session 3: Inspiring learning: using the arts in RE 4-11 Lat Blaylock

Fresh approaches to creative and imaginative work from the RE syllabus using arts and architecture from four religions.

2.00-3.30 Session 4: Meeting representatives from different worldviews

Individuals with religious and non-religious worldviews will be present for you to question. A ‘speed-dating’ approach allows you to meet each one, to hear their personal perspectives on living within their tradition and worldview, and to ask questions you have always wanted to ask!

Meet:

Jenny Lockwood: Baháʼí	Richard Udall: Humanist	Tasnim Khawaja: Muslim
Lama Choesang: Buddhist	Yvonne Stollard: Jewish	Jatinderpal Singh Loyal: Sikh

Who is it for?

The conference is aimed at teachers of RE from primary schools, including subject leaders and head teachers. It will also be valuable for governors to find out about and explore best practice in RE.

What will you gain from this conference?

• Examples of excellent practice for implementing the Worcestershire Agreed Syllabus for RE, in the context of the new Ofsted Framework and Toolkit, the Ofsted RE Research Review 2021, the RE Council Handbook on religion and worldviews, and the National Content Standard
• Practical support and guidance to schools in thinking about the intent of the syllabus and planning creative, challenging, thoughtful RE to implement it, increasing pupils’ knowledge and understanding, as well as their personal development
• Confidence in planning and delivering great RE, deepening subject knowledge and skills

Download: Worcestershire primary RE conference flyer and programme 2026 .

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