KATIE FREEMAN: writes from the NATRE Chair
I hope that as you are reading this you have found some time to rest, relax and take a break from what I know must be a very busy start to the term.
I hope that as you are reading this you have found some time to rest, relax and take a break from what I know must be a very busy start to the term.
May I start by saying, ‘Welcome back.’ I hope that you all had a restful summer break with family and friends and are now ready for the start of the new school year. I love the beginning of the autumn term; there...
As teachers and researchers, we have explored the development of a religion and worldviews approach in theory and in practice. Here we bring together our shared reflections on the idea of ‘personal knowledge’ and...
In 2018, the Commission on RE (CoRE) released its final report after a year-long investigation into the teaching of RE. The report made many recommendations, one of which was approaching the teaching of RE through the...
I hope that as you are reading this, you have found some time to rest, relax and take a break from what I know must be a very busy start to the term. As a profession, we have been asked to teach and lead in ways that...
In March, Ben Wood passed the leadership of NATRE to Katie Freeman. We asked them both to look backwards and forwards from their position as Chair of our subject teacher association.
Katie Freeman wanted pupils aged 6–7 at Hyde Park Infant School in Plymouth to think about the psalms from Jewish and Christian scripture. The topic looks challenging to begin with, but here is what happened,...