Articles about curriculum
Spotlight on the ‘ways of knowing’
Many RE teachers and leaders have thought hard about how to design and implement an effective RE curriculum, and there are lots of strong examples of what this might look like in practice across the country.
Creating a religion and worldviews curriculum
Jen Jenkins is RE & Spirituality Officer for Coventry Diocesan Board of Education, as well as RE Facilitator for Coventry & Warwickshire, working on behalf of the two local SACREs. As well as leading one of...
INCLUDING FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISM AS A TOPIC IN SECONDARY RE: IS IT ALLOWED?
Fay Lowe is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, and a Head of RE at a secondary school in Rochdale.
‘HELP! I HAVE TO TEACH RE WITH LIMITED TRAINING AND NON-EXISTENT SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE’
SARAH DENNIS
With an introduction from RUTH FLANAGAN
ARE WE WHAT WE EAT?
Exploring religious and social belonging through food with Paul Slater and Dr. Hephzibah Israel
GETTING TO GRIPS WITH TEACHING ABOUT RACISM
Ceris Sauro is a PPA teacher and Humanities Lead at Pontyberem Primary School in Carmarthenshire.
Decolonising the curriculum, decolonising RE
Louisa Jane Smith is host of The RE Podcast, a teacher of RE with 21 years’ experience, a head of PSHE, a mother and a ‘film geek!’ Here she shares her practical and sometimes challenging reflections on...
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...
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...
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.
A pedagogy of belonging for RE
In this reflective piece David Aldridge poses some very interesting questions and possibilities regarding what really counts as teachers’ subject knowledge within the context of understanding something about the...