Events and resources

How fast time flies. It has been just over a year since we introduced our regional ambassadors to the local groups network, and what an impact they have made! Thanks to collaboration between Local Groups Officer Juliet...

New editorial arrangements for REtoday magazine: after many years, this excellent team of editorial assistants has been disbanded, and in coming issues REtoday will rely more on NATRE Executive members and RE Today...

REXChange, 3 October, Birmingham We are delighted to be working with a range of partners in the RE community to promote researcher–teacher engagement through a knowledge-exchange conference. The event will bring...

We asked Sorcha Clifford of BBC Bitesize about the project. What does the KS3 Bitesize project offer the RE student? New Bitesize Key Stage 3 content aims to give students a great overview of key facts and community...

In the December 2019 general election, RE teacher Jonathan Gullis was elected MP for Stoke-on-Trent North. He referred to his past work in school in this parliamentary statement: ‘As a religious education teacher, I...

‘ Juliet is to RE what Coco is to Chanel – enduring, classic and inspiring.’ Vicky McDowell These words (above) from one of our local group leaders seem appropriate to begin an article reflecting on the work that...

NATRE nominations open The news pages on the NATRE website give information about how you can be nominated for the organisation’s next Executive. Visit: www.natre.org.uk and see the News section or About...

I am writing this just a few weeks after the sixth StrictlyRE – certainly the biggest yet, with around 350 people joining us at Heathrow for a superb conference. The feedback has been very positive and this reflects...

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.

Lisa Miller states that all children are innately spiritual from birth, and describes how parents can support the development of spirituality in their children.

This extensive resource pack is a valuable contribution, especially to commemorate the anniversary of the First World War. It comprises a resource book, 28 lesson plans, a DVD and quality resource cards. It is...

This book seeks to describe briefly many of the world’s major beliefs. The main ideologies and religions, interestingly covered, are Judaism, Christianity, Islam, polytheism, nationalism, Asian beliefs, communism,...

Billed as ‘A Tree-mendous Nativity’, this is written by the same author of ‘Hey, Ewe!’ who is a freelance musician and composer.

This book, written by the Bishop of Norwich, comprises the stories of 40 very different people, one for each of the days in Lent. The reader is invited to reflect on how faith and character are connected. Each...

The well-loved BBC Bitesize site has a major review and renewal underway, with ten new KS4 programmes nearly ready to use, and major innovations around the new GCSE for 14–16s. These ‘A day in the faith of…’...

New guidance on approaching diversity in primary RE Don’t miss this guidance and resource pack for primary schools. Dr Peter Hemming and a team from Cardiff University bring together recent policy, relevant research...

Who is educating young people today? The prima facie response is inevitable: ‘teachers’. Teachers educate young people; it’s their job, after all! We do not have to look very far to see that this response is...

www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk/resource/deliberative-classroom-religious-freedom ACT has recently published the first of its eight ‘Deliberative Classroom’ themes, Religious Freedom, as part of a project supported by...

These are three books which, as the titles indicate, reveal the overlap in the lives of artists, singers and performers between creativity and spirituality.

Author: Lat Blaylock RE Today Services, 2015, 24 card images, £40, ISBN: 978-19-10261-05-7 This is the resource we have all been waiting for! Giving pupils an understanding of the multicultural diversity of Christianity...