SIAMS
SIAMS stands for Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools.
Inspections take place because the Church has a legal obligation to inspect and report on religious education, collective worship, and pupils’ spiritual, moral, social, and cultural (SMSC) development.
Church schools come in all different shapes and sizes and a one-size fits all approach to inspection does not allow a school to have integrity in its Christian-vision-driven work. Therefore, the 2023 SIAMS Framework does not present schools with lists of criteria to meet. Instead, it asks a number of Inspection Questions about impact, and it allows leaders to explain the school’s context and the reasons for decisions and actions. These judgements combine to enable an evaluation of how schools, through their theologically rooted Christian vision, are living up to their foundation as Church schools, enabling people to flourish.
SIAMS provides a framework within which individual schools can answer three important questions:
- Who are we?
- What are we doing here?
- How, then, shall we live and learn together?
As part of the question 'how then shall we live and learn together', the inspectors will evaluate:
- How does the school’s theologically rooted Christian vision enable pupils and adults to flourish?
- How does the curriculum reflect the school’s theologically rooted Christian vision?
- How is daily collective worship1 enabling pupils and adults to flourish spiritually?
- How does the school’s theologically rooted Christian vision create a culture in which pupils and adults are treated well?
- How does the school’s theologically rooted Christian vision create an active culture of justice and responsibility?
- Is the religious education curriculum effective (with reference to the expectations set out in the Church of England’s Statement of Entitlement for Religious Education)?
- What is the quality of religious education?
Trinity's last inspection took place in 2017, under a different framework and we were delighted to be awarded an ''Outstanding'' evaluation.
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