All Church of England dioceses and the Methodist Church use the National Society for Promoting Religious Education’s framework for the Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS).

The framework provides a process for evaluating the extent to which church schools are “distinctively and recognisably Christian institutions”.

SIAMS inspection focuses on the effect that the Christian ethos of the church school has on the children and young people who attend it. Church schools will employ a variety of strategies and styles, which reflect their particular local context or church tradition in order to be distinctive and effective. Inspectors will, therefore, not be looking to apply a preconceived template of what a church school should be like.

The principal objective of SIAMS inspection is to evaluate the distinctiveness and effectiveness of the school as a church school.

Download Manor CE Academy’s latest SIAMS report, dated June 2018, here