For the classroom

Carole Crompton and Dave Pybus have been energising spirituality in schools through the Peace Mala project.

What do we hope for w we plan and deliver RE lessons? My pupils asked: ‘If Jesus came back from the dead then why can’t our loved ones?’ ‘What is our purpose on earth?’ ‘If God loved us why did he create...

A storyteller’s perspective I am sure you have been asked the age-old chestnut of a question ‘If God exists, why is there so much suffering?’ Faced with such a question, how do you answer? There is a book in the...

Victoria Carr, Headteacher at Elton Primary School, Cheshire, reflects on religion, RE and the value of truth.

In the past year, my Special School on the London/Essex border has welcomed some very wise and inspiring religious visitors. They have helped energise our RE curriculum and our pupils have left an indelible impression on...

Anna Maeer of Rushall Primary School in Walsall won the NATRE Hockerill Prize for Innovation in RE for 2014. She explores how her school refreshed RE through a pupil development team for the subject. Contact her at:...

Julie Taylor of St Williams School, Bradford, tried out this activity, and sent us photos from her Year 1 Team Church. This is how to do it. Put the class in six small groups of four or five and give each group one of...

Yafa Shanneik is a lecturer at the University of South Wales. She offers insight into gender and Islam for students learning about Islam for examinations.

In this article Chris Hancock offers two sets of songs to use for secondary RE. On this page are songs through which you might teach some basic concepts in subject knowledge, and on the next page there are some songs...

Richard Robinson, who teaches RE at the John Wallis Academy in Ashford, Kent, presents 13 tracks you might like to use when you are getting pupils to think about matters of life and death.

We wanted to explore the controversy that arose when BBC’s Songs of Praise was broadcast from a makeshift church in the ‘Calais Jungle’ refugee camp last summer.

Martyn Joseph, singer songwriter, released ‘I Searched for You’ in 2015. We asked Martyn some questions about the song, and provide below some learning ideas about the search for God.

13th July was a historic day in Parliament as David Cameron departed and Teresa May became Prime Minister. It was also the date of the long planned inaugural Youth Debate on RE in the Houses of Parliament.

Aaminah Verity is a young Muslim from England who is studying to be a GP. She volunteered to work in medical refugee camps, first in Slovenia, and then, for six weeks, on the Greek island of Chios. She set up a blog...

Stephen Fischbacher is a musician from Edinburgh with a large following wherever RE, music and Christianity intersect. We asked him what tunes up his guitar.

Stephen Melzack is a Jewish musician who works with pupils in all kinds of schools. We asked him how music can help RE, starting with one of his most popular songs: ‘Two Candles Burn’, about Shabbat.

As the RE subject leader (and Year 2 teacher) at Akiva, a progressive Jewish primary school in Finchley, London, I am committed to finding interesting ways to enhance the curriculum and raise the profile of RE across...

We asked teachers at the NATRE St Albans local group how to make best use of music in RE. Several responded, and here are their ideas. Thanks to Juliet Lyal (Cunningham Hill Infant School), Sarah Kropman (Cunningham...

Rachel Buckby teaches in Leicester. She wanted her infant pupils to explore an inspiring life in RE, so she told the story of Mother Teresa. The children were all given a sentence from the story (see the 24 sentences...

Our children are always making things; they are naturally creative. Creation is about God making things, and about a human responsibility to care for creation.
Our children love to dress up and become someone...