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Our latest issues and the archive
Summer 2021
Volume 38, Number 3
Theme: JUSTICE AND RELIGIONS
In this issue:
- Tom Holland: revolutionary Jesus
- Kim Leadbetter MBE considers her sister Jo Cox’s legacy
- RE and the reduction of racism
- Great activities for understanding the Golden Rule
- Perspectives on justice from different religions and world views
- Karbala: the pilgrimage of a lifetime
- 30+ Active RE lesson ideas for 4-19-year-olds
Spring 2021
Volume 38, Number 2
Theme: Identities
In this issue:
- 30+ active RE lesson ideas Identities: a theme for RE
- Samira Ahmed: BBC journalist, on CoRE
- Professional REflection: academic research applied to the RE classroom from four key thinkers
- Being trans, being Christian: four interviews for your exam classes to consider
- Four perspectives on identities from different religions
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This article is for paying subscribers VAT in RE
Value-added teaching: VAT in RE – upskilling solutions for new and non-specialist teachers of RE
This article is for paying subscribers Playful RE outdoors? ‘101 Playground Games’ by Therese Hoyle has the ideas if you can make the links to RE
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...
This article is for paying subscribers RE in schools is under threat: introducing a ‘worldview approach’
Mark Roques, who used to be an RE teacher, works in schools to present Christian visions and philosophical arguments. He remembers when ‘worldviews’ was a younger concept than it is today
This article is for paying subscribers Hindu journeys in your classroom
Yatra is the Sanskrit term often translated as travel, journey or procession and within the Dharmic traditions
is typically used to denote a pilgrimage.
This article is for paying subscribers Coins, camels and curiosity: Eight objects from the Ashmolean
Anna Saunders presents an approach to the Abrahamic faiths through the objects of the Ashmolean Museum.
This article is for paying subscribers Blogs, vlogs and online learning: fresh resources for teachers of RE
We wanted to alert REtoday readers to some of the new learning opportunities for our subject in fresh examples of social media. Here are some of our favourite recent examples, compiled by Fiona Moss.
This article is for paying subscribers Shi‘a Muslim pilgrimages: journeys of the heart
In Islamic spirituality, the heart, not the brain, is responsible for deep understanding, and the place where true knowledge is kept. In Arabic, the word for heart is ‘qalb’, which literally means ‘that which...
This article is for paying subscribers Three trips, three teaching ideas
Charlotte Newman likes travelling and teaching RE. Here are her examples of the times when these two passions line up.
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This article is for paying subscribers A British flag to lea n from British values
This example of work on the meaning of being British asked every pupil to contribute to a collage of the union flag, a piece of torn card in red and another in blue. All the contributions were to reflect children’s...
This article is for paying subscribers Good Muslims treat all animals with kindness
The Hadith: a Hadith is a saying or example of the Prophet, remembered and written down to help Muslims know how to live. Here is one example:
This article is for paying subscribers Winning a quarter million: Roop Singh
This article is for paying subscribers The beginning of creative discussion
It’s Friday afternoon. Outside it’s cold, with an occasional lightly falling drop of rain hinting at imminent snowy weather, just in time for the weekend. Excited children, full of anticipation for tobogganing and...
This article is for paying subscribers Mindfulness for free: Don’t pay for a pale imitation when the real thing is available as a gift
This article is for paying subscribers Teaching with the ‘Golden Rule Tree’
It seems that all religions and belief systems have some kind of version of the ‘Golden Rule’, an ethical statement that uses reciprocity to guide humans as they decide what is good.
This article is for paying subscribers Musical theology in the infants
At the Cobbs Infant and Nursery School in Warrington, Higher Level Teaching Assistant Janet Lever taught her 6–7s about Christian understandings of God using music. The personal and thoughtful responses suggest that...
This article is for paying subscribers Satan’s dozen
12 ideas about the Devil for classroom thinking
This article is for paying subscribers Markers: Anne Krisman explores spiritual response special school settings
Markers: how our pupils with complex needs respond spiritually
This article is for paying subscribers The RE GCSE four-piece jigsaw of success
One reason teachers of RE are struggling with the new GCSE specifications is because the longer essay-style answers required of students are taxing the skills students have gained in putting together their thoughts in...
This article is for paying subscribers The Trinity in lockdown
During lockdown in February 2021, Years 3 and 4 were looking at a module on Christianity. To support our virtual learning and because we could not visit churches to help with our understanding, I asked local Anglican...
This article is for paying subscribers The Big Bible story
A resource from the Diocese of Guildford
Jane Whittington is the Schools Officer, Christian Distinctiveness, Diocese of Guildford
Rachel Boxer is an RE Adviser, Diocese of Guildford