Instant RE

I hope that as you are reading this you have found some time to rest, relax and take a break from what I know must be a very busy start to the term.

Not entirely sure what to expect, it was with trepidation that I began this project, which we named ‘Let’s Talk about antisemitism’. I need not have worried: our collaborators have been nothing but supportive...

"Understanding your own interpretation of worldviews is an essential starting point. This can be done through reading. We have found the Culham St Gabriel’s Trust’s short courses a good starting point, both the...

Lat Blaylock shares some ideas about kitsch RE, messy inter-religious artefacts and the flux and flow of beliefs in our contemporary world and RE classrooms.

Sometimes weak RE does not get much beyond festivals: Divali, Christmas and Eid, done with a focus on cutting and sticking based on weedy twinkly worksheets, is inadequate when we consider the riches of Hindu,...

Nottinghamshire SACRE explored the question of how faith contributes to the local community with young people in Years 5/6 who visited social justice programmes organised by different faith communities in...

Rachel Buckby, NATRE Executive member and RE Lead at St John’s Primary School in Leicester, wants to celebrate keen children who love RE to bits.

Rebecca Ostler teaches 8–10s in Cambridgeshire. She discovered that it was worth doing the cooking to learn about the Jewish celebration of Purim.

As RE studies the Holocaust quite often, teachers need to approach this most harrowing of topics with care, but also sometimes with fresh resources. Here is Phillip Schwartz’s 2018 artwork based on the Prophet...

Aisling Joinson teaches in Wrexham, and wanted her class of 7–9s to think for themselves about the creation story of Jewish and Christian scripture in Genesis 1.

How can you truly give children the opportunity to experience how they would feel when a miracle happened? How can you take a miracle from the Bible and make it authentic for life today in the twenty-first...

Alice Sarbicki teaches RE in Bristol, and is a volunteer on the REtoday Editor’s Panel. She wanted to apply the idea of lenses for looking at religion to the study of Jesus.

Josephine Tomlinson teaches at Sacred Heart School in Calderdale. After a visit to a church, she asked her children to build their own in the classroom.

Amy Vose, RE teacher, describes what led to one of her pupils becoming a winner in last year’s Spirited Arts competition. Please plan to enter this year with your pupils – the closing date is 31 July.

Rebecca Ostler teaches RE in Hertfordshire. She wanted her class of 8–10s to think about religion and climate issues in a creative way. Here is what they did.

A new webinar series for teachers

Lila, aged 11, reports from St Barnabas C of E Primary School, Warmley, South Gloucestershire.

Key question: what is the difference between a pilgrim and a tourist?

Therese Hoyle is a maestro of playtime, and she trains teachers and helps schools to encourage play that is fun first but also co-operative and contributes to the aims of the school. Her new book, a Speechmark...

Bhante Tejwant serves as a Buddhist representative on Wolverhampton SACRE. He is a contributor to the NATRE anti-racist RE resource project, and here he gives a perspective from the way of the Buddha on tolerance. Use...