Articles about RE
This article is for paying subscribers A NATRE curriculum symposium
Secondary teacher and former Chair of NATRE Ben Woodgives us a two-part ‘behind the scenes’ view of the NATRE Curriculum Symposium that took place in Birmingham in November 2021. In the first part, he explains the...
This article is for paying subscribers Special Issue: the NATRE Curriculum Symposium
Secondary teacher and former Chair of NATRE Ben Wood gives us a two-part ‘behind the scenes’ view of the NATRE Curriculum Symposium that took place in Birmingham in November 2021. In the first part, he explains...
This article is for paying subscribers The Plymouth Centre for Faiths and Cultural Diversity at 20: a model to reproduce?
Jonathan Marshall draws some key messages from the first two decades of life for a Plymouth interfaith centre. Surely every area needs this kind of spacemaking for dialogue, in which learners can ‘try on other...
This article is for paying subscribers How are secondary schools preparing for the implementation of the new curriculum for Wales?
Shannon Brown from Brynteg Comprehensive School shares her work investigating how the new Welsh Religion, Values and Ethics curriculum is being implemented.
This article is for paying subscribers Jesus through many lenses with Year 8
Alice Sarbicki teaches RE in Bristol, and is a volunteer on the REtoday Editor’s Panel. She wanted to apply the idea of lenses for looking at religion to the study of Jesus.
This article is for paying subscribers Building a church in the classroom
Josephine Tomlinson teaches at Sacred Heart School in Calderdale. After a visit to a church, she asked her children to build their own in the classroom.
This article is for paying subscribers Teaching Christianity through art
Paul Marvin teaches RE at Farrington Gurney Primary School in Bristol. He wanted to use his Farmington Fellowship to explore the ways pupils can build better understanding of key RE concepts through the lens of...
This article is for paying subscribers Nine great ways to make a museum visit into superb RE
Alexis Stones is a Senior Teaching Fellow working on the PGCE & MA Religious Education course at University College London. She has worked with museums and art galleries on several major RE projects, and suggests...
This article is for paying subscribers TWELVE TIPS FOR BETTER REMEMBERING IN RE
Naomi Anstice teaches RE in Cheshire and is a member of the NATRE Executive. She shares ideas that work for retrieval, recall, memory and the deployment of knowledge.
This article is for paying subscribers Looking at Easter: a sociological lens in the infant classroom
Harriet Butcher teaches RE at Offenham CE First School in Evesham,
Worcestershire. She enabled her infant pupils to be sociologists for a day in RE.
This article is for paying subscribers Realising the potential of RE: representation, reflection and research
Introduction
a decade has passed since Ofsted
published Religious Education: Realising the
Potential (2013). It argued that RE in schools
is generally overcrowded, incoherent and
...
This article is for paying subscribers THROUGH A THEOLOGICAL LENS
Professor Alister McGrath offers a positive vision of the role of theology in school, RE
and public life as well as in churches.
This article is for paying subscribers Hidden Heritage: religion hiding in plain sight
Fatima Manji is a journalist for Channel 4 News. Her recent book Hidden Heritage (Chatto
and Windus 2021, paperback edition available from August 2022) explores the often-missed presence of stories of migration,...
This article is for paying subscribers Greener religion for infants?
Fiona Moss, NATRE CEO, suggests six ways to enable green thinking in RE for 4–7s.
This article is for paying subscribers Turning a vision for RE into Reality
Matthew Lane describes the impact of his whole-school approach to better RE: subject leaders in primary schools will find much to ponder here.
This article is for paying subscribers Debating RE
Over 60 students representing half the secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent came together in the impressive surroundings of the council chamber to take part in three debates.
This article is for paying subscribers Positive Christian engagement with green issues
The Revd Dr Dave Bookless is a former RE teacher. He has lived in multicultural Southall for nearly 30 years, writes and speaks widely, and loves running, Indian food, good wine and wild places.
This article is for paying subscribers Looking for an argument? Developing pupils’ argumentation skills in environmental issues
RE is undoubtedly a key subject for developing skills of argumentation, for students to learn how to present their own ideas and to comment on and critique the arguments of others. In a world of ‘fake news’,...
This article is for paying subscribers Five tweets from the future
We asked pupils to think about how the climate crisis poses some dangers for the world, and to imagine they could send a tweet back to the people of today from far into the future, maybe giving us a warning or a...
This article is for paying subscribers Reform and development in thinking about RE
One of the positive things about Mark Chater’s recent book Reforming RE (2020) is that it brings together theorists and practitioners to make their contributions about how they see the future of the subject. It...