For the classroom

This crowdsourced article poses the question: what does great RE look like on the frontier with history? There are all kinds of good reasons to link RE and history, and in some ways RE needs the disciplines of history...

Simplified scriptures are a great teaching tool. Teachers of RE have long used simplified versions of biblical story books to teach Christianity, and My First Qur’an is a big seller from the NATRE shop, offering...

In this study, pupils learn about forgiveness from an Islamic example, connecting to Qur’anic text, a Hadith of the Prophet, contemporary concerns about fanaticism and far-right extremism, and some ethical and...

RE Today interviewed Michael Mail, Chief Executive of the Foundation For Jewish Heritage about the story of a wonderful building.

Julie Childs teaches RE in Lincolnshire and Lat Blaylock is Editor of REtoday. They encourage all primary subject leaders to audit staff subject knowledge and confidence every couple of years. Here are three samples...

Zoe Higgins wants RE to tackle climate issues more than ever before.
Here is how it can.

Here we present some examples of good uses of floor books in 4–7 RE. Typical features of a floor book for RE are that it is a large (eg A2 or A1) book in which samples of pupil responses to RE tasks are collected...

Tim Hutchings is Assistant Professor of Religious Ethics at the University of Nottingham. Céline Benoit is Associate Dean for Public Engagement in the College of Business and Social Sciences at Aston University and a...

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...

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...

In our British Muslim Youth Survey we inquired among more than three hundred Islamic school pupils aged 11–18. The survey was completed with the supervision of RE teachers in about twenty different schools. Some...

Huw Thomas shares some excellent ideas for focusing lenses of interpretation onto religious and spiritual stories.

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.

Three young people, Keli and Sita, both 10, and Yamuna, 18, describe the big experience of Hindu pilgrimage and how it changed the ways they see the world. We all look at life from the lenses of our habitual...

The lens of an interview and the lens of dialogue: Nicki Bonell and Jen Black teach Year 4 in Penzance and Malvern, where Jewish populations are small. Gerry Cohen is a Jewish RE teacher in North London. They helped...

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.

Katherine France teaches RE in Kendal and serves on the NATRE National Executive. She wants RE discussions to
lead to more learning. Here’s how.

Siân Jones, Head of Religion & Philosophy at Maiden Erlegh School, Reading, shares her experience of a deep-dive inspection into her department.

Hanuman Dass is Chair and Founder of Go Dharmic, a social movement of volunteers working in the UK, India and worldwide to create positive change in lives and communities. He is also the joint author, with Nicolas...

A new digital resource pack for schools on historical Jewish immigration to Scotland raises questions for all our learners about where we stand and how we see the world. Hannah Holtschneider, cultural historian at the...