DBE: Developing an Approach to Spirituality

Developing spirituality is a key part to helping children, young people, and adults to flourish in all that they do in school. The current SIAMS Framework requires spirituality to be developed separately from moral, social, and cultural education. Understanding spirituality continues to be a common SIAMS area of development nationally.

This course will consider what spirituality is and help delegates to begin to create a shared common language for spirituality within their school that maintains the integrity of Christianity whilst being
inclusive to all faiths and none.

Following this course delegates may find Spirituality in the Curriculum and Beyond on Wednesday 4th March 2026 also of interest. However, each course can be attended as a stand-alone session.

2023-24 SIAMS annual report by Margaret James about Spirituality:
“ Inspection evidence indicates that inspirational, inclusive, and invitational collective worship continues to be at the heart of many Church schools. However, one caveat to this is that many schools’ limited collective understanding of spirituality is a detrimental factor in both pupils’ and adults’ spiritual flourishing through worship. If schools do not have an understanding of what spirituality is, they cannot create the conditions for spiritual flourishing and they cannot make any informed comment on whether anyone is flourishing spiritually or not.”

Suitable for Clergy and Governors

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