For the staffroom
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‘Religion: All in the mind?’

Our theme this term is ‘Religion: All in the mind?’ We asked five members of different communities to respond to some questions about this, and their thinking follows. We used these seven questions. a. What does your...
Theory and practice
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Mindfulness in the classroom?

Mindfulness is currently very popular in the western world. Indeed, it is recommended on the NHS Choices website. Type ‘mindfulness for children’ into Amazon and a variety of books and resources appear. Most RE...
For the classroom 5-16
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‘RE is the only time we can actually think.’ Does your RE need more MINDFULNESS

For some people, meditation is most readily associated with ‘Eastern’ religions, or hippies from the 1960s rather than the ordinary daily routine, and indeed may be considered either religious (for those who are...