This article is for paying subscribers Knowledge’, ‘research’ and ‘substantive’ are just three of the many ‘Tier 3’ words on the lips of those within the RE/religion and worldviews community currently. Here, two educators, both working in the...
This article is for paying subscribers Welcome to the start of a new academic year and with it our second special issue of ProfessionalREflection, this time focusing on the topical issue of knowledge in RE. As before, this issue is special in having been...
This article is for paying subscribers RE for Early Years pupils and infants needs active and thought-provoking ways of connecting learning about religions to experience. Here are ten suggestions that have questions of identity and belonging, our theme for...
This article is for paying subscribers Julia Diamond-Conway, RE Adviser with RE Today, shares some ideas for the classroom based upon the fact that religions are seeking greener practices around key festivities.
This article is for paying subscribers 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 article is for paying subscribers Who says small children can’t access big thoughts, ask big questions and understand big ideas? Below we present ten techniques to show your pupils that their big questions matter.
Whatever vision the Commission on RE comes up with for the future of RE, all will be fine words without skilled teachers to realise it with their pupils. Since the demise of the RE centres and local-authority RE...
This article is for paying subscribers Ian McEwan, The Children Act (Jonathan Cape 2014), 224pp, hardback, £16.99, ISBN 9780224101998.
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