Workshop looks at religious perspectives on wealth
Over 100 year 8 pupils from secondary schools across the county will get together this week to take part in interactive faith workshops.
The Youth SACRE event at Higham Lane School - A Business and Enterprise College on Friday 3 July 2009, has been organised by Warwickshire County Council’s Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE).
The pupils will be involved in activities throughout the day to explore the beliefs and traditions of a variety of different faiths and philosophies.
The theme of the event will be wealth, poverty and inequality, a particularly relevant topic for these times, which will be discussed from different religious perspectives.
Students will hear from a variety of different organisations, including the British Humanist Association, Islamic Relief, Tzedek (a Jewish charity) and Leamington based charities CORD and the Leamington Christian Mission.
Following these discussion sessions, pupils will have an opportunity to produce their own creative responses. They will be given the choice to come up with a rap, a song, a drama piece or a manifesto to be presented to the whole of the Youth SACRE at the end of the day.
Warwickshire Youth SACRE, now in its fourth year, is organised by the county council. Every local authority has a duty to set up a SACRE to advise them on the religious education syllabus used by all county and voluntary controlled schools, and other schools that choose to participate.
As well as guiding and monitoring the syllabus, the SACRE also publishes support materials, approves a programme of training for teachers and tackles issues related to religious education in Warwickshire schools including collective worship.
Manjit Kaur from Warwickshire SACRE said: “We have some excellent speakers coming to the event on Friday who will introduce the pupils to some new ways of thinking, hopefully providing them will lots of inspiration for the creative workshops.”
Representatives from Stockingford Methodist Church will also be there on the day with a range of Fair Trade products for students to buy, as well as being able to give them an insight into the work that Fair Trade does all over the globe.
For more information about SACRE visit http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/sacre