Events: What’s going on in the RE community
In March, Ben Wood passed the leadership of NATRE to Katie Freeman. We asked them both to look backwards and forwards from their position as Chair of our subject teacher association.
In March, Ben Wood passed the leadership of NATRE to Katie Freeman. We asked them both to look backwards and forwards from their position as Chair of our subject teacher association.
It is great to welcome back Ben Wood to these pages. Ben has written here before, including a reflection on taking up the role of Chair of NATRE in the Summer 2019 edition. This time he looks back and reflects upon...
At the beginning of 2021, we can look back thinking that
2020 didn’t quite turn out how we thought it might.
I never enjoyed teaching the ‘environment’ bit of the GCSE course. It was just so bland, so uncontroversial, so anodyne. It was one of the most glaring examples of how the previous GCSE was so undemanding, and the...
I am in my eighteenth year of teaching. I’m just starting to get the hang of some of it. One area in which I am more confident is my understanding of what RE is in my school.
As you may be aware, in September the Commission on RE (REC) published its fial report, putting forward a national plan to reinvigorate the subject for the benefit of all students in all publicly funded schools. In...
Ben Wood, NATRE Chair, talking about the government’s weak response to the Commission on RE’s report.
For this edition we have Ben Wood to thank for these honest and humble reflections on his role as a successful head of RE and as Chair of NATRE. Many of you will have heard or seen Ben representing our subject when...
The concept of a worldview is one that forms a crucial part of the recommendations in the Commission on RE’s report. It is also a term that can be controversial and one that isn’t easy to define (not bad things in...