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Understanding the Holy Land

Princess Helena College travelled to Israel and Palestine in 2015 with the School Travel Consultancy, and 16-year-old Kitt Spicer wrote about the experience for REtoday: we like to publish students’ writing in every...
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Julie Grove: honour at the palace

Member of the REtoday editorial team Julie Grove was honoured at Buckingham Palace with the award of an MBE for services to education. Many REtoday readers will know the quality of her RE work over the years from her...
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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...
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Schoolswork UK: new set of playing cards full of adult questions

The Christian agency for those who visit schools to do RE, Schoolswork UK, has produced a third set of playing cards. The wild bestselling popularity of their primary and secondary card decks is explained by a very cool...
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BAFTA award for RE programme

The BBC RE series My Life, My Religion consists of five 30-minute programmes. Featuring lots of original filming from across Britain and using child presenters with diary cams, the programmes were first broadcast in...
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World development: Alliance of Religions and Conservation and His Holiness Pope Francis speak up

Teachers tackling environmental issues will find it useful to keep abreast with the Alliance of Religions and Conservation. ARC co-ordinates the work of 11 different religion and faith groups in relation to environmental...
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Student-friendly Humanism resources for RE

The British Humanist Association will be relaunching their Humanism for Schools website in early 2016, featuring an exciting range of new teaching resources. Primary and secondary school teachers looking for ways to...
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Leslie Howard: a loss to RE

Leslie Howard, founder and director of the religious artefacts firm Articles of Faith, died last year. We are pleased to have this tribute from his wife, Christine. May he rest in peace. To his teaching colleagues Leslie...
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Ofsted and non-compliance in RE

Some thoughts from Dilwyn Hunt, Chair of AREIAC Following an analysis of Ofsted reports undertaken by Devon’s SACRE early this year, a detailed document was written. In that document it noted that Ofsted was observing...
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Questions of origins: Big Bang? God?

The ‘God and the Big Bang’ project continues to offer GCSE and A-level students (14–18 year olds) an exciting opportunity to discover, discuss and debate the compatibility of science and faith. The day conferences...
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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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A view of current RE micropolitics from the Chair of the National Association of SACREs

It appears to be ‘open season’ on RE once again. We appear to be going over questions that have been with us since the 1980s: Why is RE in the curriculum? What should it cover and who should decide? This has come out...
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From the NATRE Chair: The Devil and all his works …

The theme of this edition of REtoday is ‘The Devil and all his works …’, and it seemed an invitation to reflect on a few of the evils of our school lives (and suggest a few ways of easing our pain). Many teachers...
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Human imagination or divine inspiration?

‘And as I slept I dreamed a Dream …’ Do you recognise these words? If not, you should do! They are taken from the opening passage of one of the world’s most famous books of all time – The Pilgrim’s Progress...
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Resources

Edited by Jane Brooke Introducing the God Question Age range: 16-19sKharis Productions, 2016Format: three disc DVD boxset, £36.00Format: 84 page paperback book, £5.00Format: USB with PDF documents, £12.00 I’m sure...
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Continuing critique of A level reforms

Cathy Michell, who teaches A level RS at Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge, has been asking questions of the Department for Education and Ofqual. The latest letter she received from the DfE defends the current...
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Spirited Arts 2016 and 2017

There were five categories in the Art in Heaven competition this year, all attracting very large numbers of entries. We estimate that about 25,000 children and young people took part, and we would like thank them all,...
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RE Today one-day training courses

Each term RE Today Services runs a number of one-day training courses for primary and secondary teachers around the country. Our training will support you in developing your subject knowledge, increasing your confidence,...
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Support project New2RE continues to expand

NATRE was delighted to learn it had been successful in bids for grant funding from several different trusts, which will allow the New2RE scheme to continue into its third year and to expand. The programme is designed to...
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Is there still a chance of adding RE to the EBacc?

Lord Baker, architect of the Education Reform Act of 1988, has published a report on the future of the EBacc and the place of RE within it, which you can access here: www.edge.co.uk/research/...