For the classroom

Professor Bob Bowie of Christ Church University, Canterbury, wants RE to take the skills of interpretation more seriously, and use the methods of hermeneutics, the study of interpretation. Here are some ways to make it...

Jonny Lawson teaches RE in West Sussex. Some recent visions for RE have increasingly emphasised the subject’s need for multidisciplinary visions and ways of including work that uses sociology of religion with pupils....

I love teaching Hinduism, most especially the story of Durga and her triumph over the demon Mahisha (symbol of self-delusion). I often ask students to create their own goddess who they think will be best equipped to deal...

Stacey Burman and Julia Diamond-Conway suggest some clips and RE uses from the hit Netflix show The Good Place, which is set in heaven and written by people who seem to have degrees in philosophical theology. Michael...

These strategies can apply to any images within the RE classroom, including images of Islam such as we have been developing for publication in the new RE Today pack ‘Picturing Islam, Picturing Muslims.’ The...

St Paul wrote 13 Bible books, and founded 22 churches across the Roman world in his lifetime. Was he the first Christian hero, or perhaps a kind of ultimate visionary in Christianity? Sheila Miller provides practical...

Katie Freeman considers how the vision of Jesus from Matthew’s Gospel inspired the vision of Mother Teresa, now sainted by the Catholic Church. Could your 10-year-olds tackle this depth of learning? In the autumn term...

Fundamental to our vision to educate for life in all its fullness, we are inspired by the Old Testament leader Nehemiah’s example for how to build our school community where all are valued, all contribute and all...

Helen Jones teaches at Oxton Saint Saviour’s School on the Wirral. She shares her learning journey with persona dolls as aids to teaching Christianity. I started using persona dolls after we introduced Understanding...

Examples from St Andrew’s Church of England Primary School Ann Marie Allchurch is Headteacher at St Andrew’s CofE Primary School in Plymouth. St Andrew’s is a voluntary aided Church of England primary school that...

Deborah Weston, NATRE’s data thinker, gives a report on the characteristics of schools in relation to provision and standards in RS at GCSE with a focus on ethnicity and free school meals.

Why might I want to use multiple-choice questions in RE?

This activity has the intention of enabling pupils to understand Christian diversity for themselves. The implementation is through an outdoor learning sketching session, leading to an application of a detailed...

New to leading RE? Finding the challenges of teaching RE daunting? Feeling on your own and in need of support for your subject? We want you to know that you are not alone. Here are 5 practical steps to help you along...

This classroom learning approach, devised by Julia Diamond-Conway and Kate Christopher, puts into practice one of the key intentions of RE – to enable pupils to consider attitudes of tolerance and respect in...

This feature asks pupils to examine why religion (and possibly atheism too) can be annoying. Sometimes it is good RE to look at the ‘dark side’ of a worldview, our own or someone else’s. Use the script below to...

Year 6 in the late Spring Term can be a giddy bunch, with 11+ over and SATS pending, and them ready to transition from their small pond. So I was keen to undertake a really ‘open’ topic to encourage intellectual and...

This case study for teaching Islam is an example of planning to meet an overall aim, reflecting on the new inspection requirements for England.

Jennifer Jenkins considers how learning about peace in RE can exemplify good implementation of RE intentions, using the example of Coventry Cathedral’s reconciliation work. She is a member of the educational team at...

Julie Grove, whose career made her a specialist in Early Years and infants RE, makes four suggestions about good practice, with examples. Integrity in RE with this age group means using specific examples of religious...