SIAMS stands for the Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools. Under Section 48 of the 2005 Education Act it states that by law, Church schools must have an inspection of collective worship, religious education, pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) education in Church of England and Methodist schools.

Through this inspection, 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 for themselves:

Who are we?

What are we doing here?

How then, shall we live and learn together?