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Research update

This edition of the research update contains two very different summaries of current work that is being undertaken within the field of RE. The first discusses a project at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Values...

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Where is God? A Sikh story

His majesty was puzzled. He thought to himself, ‘A great king
like me should not just be able to win battles and make laws.
I ought to be able to make sense of life.’ Every time he went
to the...

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What is wisdom?

To introduce the concept of wisdom, the teacher asked the opening question: ‘What is wisdom?’ One pupil, Callum, replied: ‘There’s a story about Solomon that will help us.’ What does the word wise mean? Pupils...
For the classroom 11-16
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Using Bible tests in RE: Readers and Meanings1

To understand how Christians make sense of the Bible, we need to think about how and why they are reading it. Stephen Pett, RE adviser at REtoday, offers an extended metaphor to open up this idea. In the classroom Pupils...
For the classroom 7-14
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Hell on Earth?

Joseph Keane Teacher of Religion – All Hallows Catholic College, Macclesfield Teaching students with varying degrees of belief/non-belief/ uncertainty about Heaven and Hell can be quite daunting: there is no hard...
For the classroom 5-11
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Wisdom in action: A sword and a baby

There’s a story in the Bible about a young king who was extremely wise. His name was Solomon. One day, when he was holding court, the king heard a commotion beyond the great doors of his throne room. There was...
For the classroom 5-11
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The wise women of the Bible

Kate Penfold-Attride wanted her pupils to think about some contemporary social issues in the light of some Bible stories, so she decided to explore biblical women’s wisdom. The wisdom the children found was often seen...
For the classroom 5-11
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Better RE through A big event!

Before our RE week began…Last year, I was observed when teaching a lesson about Easter, where children were arguing for and against the Christian notion of Jesus as the Son of God. It went well, but made me think about...
The big picture
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Carving Jesus

Show this picture to your pupils, on the whiteboard.  Discuss some questions:  What can you see? What do you think you would see if the camera zoomed out?  Who might buy this statue?  How many hours might it...
Opinion
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Human Rights and Gay Cake

Should a baker be prosecuted for refusing to ice a pro-gay message onto a cake? Peter Tatchell will enable your students to weigh up arguments between religious freedom and gay rights. Read the article and discuss the...

The big picture
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THE BIG PICTURE St Francis and the wolf of Gubbio

Show pupils the picture (you can download it from the RE Today members’ website for your whiteboard). Tell the story, perhaps while the picture is displayed. This account is based on the 21st chapter of the Fioretti...

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A Christian perspective

Jane Chipperton was recently RE adviser in St Albans Diocese, and is a Trustee of RE Today

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A Humanist perspective

Peter Harvey is a Humanist representative on Derbyshire SACRE

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The beginning and the end – Five different views

We asked people from a number of different worldviews to comment on the big issues of the theme of this term’s REtoday, and some treasure emerged. Use these short articles with your 14–19s by all means, but any...
On reflection
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Two parables for today

In our story section this term you will find two parables to use with your learners in different ways. Spot the connection to the theme of ‘The beginning and the end’. The parable of the twinsTwo twins got the same...
Events and resources
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RE:quest update: RE:start offers Christianity resources for Early Years and primary

One of the biggest privileges of working at RE:quest is coming alongside great teachers and hearing their thoughts on what resources they need to help with their job. There’s one message I hear over and over again: we...
Events and resources 14-16
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Taize: an education space for reconciliation between religions

Taize has become a popular destination for educational pilgrimage and is hosting school and college weeks in 2016. A coach service will run from the UK for Holy Week, the week before Easter, and at other times through...
Events and resources
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Do you need exciting new ways to teach Christianity?

Advance notice: look forward to early Summer 2016 and you will be hearing a great deal about a brand-new and exciting project to support the teaching of Christianity in RE, from Early Years through to Key Stage 3 The...
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What does your faith say about the Devil?

We invited members of different faiths and beliefs to consider the nature of evil from their own point of view. Here are responses from a Buddhist, a Christian, a Pagan and a Sikh, all of whom are teachers. We used the...
For the classroom 11-19
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Peace at the last

Chris Boxley, as well as being a member of the REtoday editorial team, is a Christian minister. He describes how his work taking funerals sharpens up questions about the meaning of life.