FAITH SCHOOLS UNDER FIRE
en staff / The Christian Institute
In October, a Christian school had Ofsted recommend that an Imam be invited to lead collective worship and that failure to promote ‘British values’, as interpreted by the Ofsted team, could lead to its closure by the Department for Education.
Trinity Christian School, a small independent school in Reading, was rated ‘excellent’ for its provision for pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development in November 2013. It was told that pupils were ‘well prepared for life in modern, multicultural, democratic British society through the teaching of the Christian principle to “love thy neighbour’’ ’.