Articles about Stories
Jesus tempted From the Lion Comic Book Hero Bible
An icon of saintly courage
The ‘story tent’: scriptural reasoning in RE
Using sacred texts to develop intercultural competencies
Profound RE
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to teach RE to some of the most complex learners within our school system? After ten years of working in secondary schools, teaching GCSE and A level RS, Tracy Edwards...
Superbook Schools
Gizmo, the popular robot, is the star attraction in a new resource for primary school RE, available free at www.superbookschools.org. Milly Smart from Superbook Schools says: ‘Superbook is similar to the magic key...
Inside a faith
1. Please mention a story from your religion/belief that meant a lot to you as a child, and say why.
2. What story or stories do you think children should know about from the origins of your...
RE and National Poetry Day
At St Matthew’s we are keen to show the contribution rich RE can make to other areas of the curriculum. National Poetry Day gave us the perfect opportunity for cross-curricular links. Here is just one example of how...
The stories we tell ourselves:
Creation stories of the world:
We teach many creation stories, especially to younger children in the primary phase. However, older children can benefit from returning to well-loved creation stories and taking a sociological or psychological view,...
Retelling the Bible in comic-book style
Sergio Cariello has drawn for Marvel and for DC Comics. Now he has created The Action Storybook Bible: key stories from Christian scripture in comic-book style for children aged 4–8. It is drawn for those inside the...
Using faith stories: ten great ideas
How to tell a faith story well
Every day we are ‘storied’. We all live by stories – indeed, our lives are stories – but for them to mean something we have to be inside them; otherwise they are merely words. When we achieve that synergy, we...
Friendship knows no barriers
Michael Morpurgo was knighted in the 2018 New Year’s Honours list for his services to children’s literature. His work is loved by millions of pupils for its imaginative power and depth. REtoday asked him to launch...
Telling stories
In this edition we are thinking about ‘stories’: the stories we tell children, the stories we tell ourselves and the stories that challenge and inspire us.