For the classroom

After teaching RE and PSHE in the UK for 20 years, Ruth Marx now lives in France and is an RE and PSHE consultant and author currently writing curriculum with United Learning and the Ann Taves Barnet Syllabus project....

Having worked in a mainstream for 20 years, I am fully aware that delivering ‘compulsory’ RE Key Stage 4 can be a challenge. It is true, however, that delivering compulsory RE to Key Stage 4 in a pupil referral...

Rachel Cole teaches in a school for secondary-aged students with moderate learning difficulties. She previously taught in mainstream primary schools and in a mainstream through school (4–16). She leads and teaches...

As educators we strive to do our best for ‘our’ children across the curriculum and throughout the school. Floor books are an effective way of doing this, by saving teacher time and providing interesting insights...

As a Head of Department in a large secondary school, transition is something that has always vexed  me. To give some context, my school is in a multi-academy trust (MAT), although this is still ar relatively new...

Stepping into the classroom is still e singularly most terrifying and most empowering thing I have done. The empowering part, however, came quite a while later on! Teaching was not my first career, and I began...

In the dynamic and ever-evolving world of primary education and curriculum design, the integration of various sciplines enhances the depth and breadth of student learning. And this is no different when approaching RE....

Exploring the ethical dimensions of veganism offers a profound link to RE, where moral reasoning and the study of values are paramount.

Hugo Whately gives us insight into THE ABC FOR KEY STAGE 3

Exploring religious and social belonging through food with Paul Slater and Dr. Hephzibah Israel

The aim of the project is for students to fully place themselves into the narrative of climate emergency, rather than seeing it as a problem for others to solve.

There is strong interest in learners as researchers in RE presently, and this article sets your pupils up to do some research for themselves about Muslims and values. RE Today’s National Muslim Youth Survey (2022)...

How will you teach Holy Week and Easter to the 4–11s this year?

At West Ham Church Primary School our vision and values are theologically grounded by the Bible text ‘With God, all things are possible’ (Matthew 19:26).

VISION AND VALUES FOR THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY

Ceris Sauro is a PPA teacher and Humanities Lead at Pontyberem Primary School in Carmarthenshire.

An exciting new resource for EYFS and Key Stage 1 pupils

‘Belief’, ‘faith’ and ‘religion’ – three words we use interchangeably as RE teachers to try and explain key ideas and concepts. But are they the same? Are we encouraging messy understanding?"

In the summer of 2022 I read The Bible With and Without Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler (HarperOne 2020), which inspired me to re-vamp our unit on Genesis and the environment for our Year 7 spring term....

Vishal Sangu is an RS PhD student at the Open University, specialising in decolonisation, RS and Sikhi. Here, Vishal explores the problematic nature of applying gendered language to the study of dharmic traditions and...