Events and resources

RE Today has begun a major new partnership with the Templeton World Charity Foundation for Big Questions in Classrooms, a project that will benefit all NATRE members. Via this planned three-year resourcing project, we...

Edge Hill University has long been recognised as a Centre of Excellence for RE. For many years there has been a very popular PGCE Secondary RE course at Edge Hill, which also offers the unique three-year BA (Hons)...

New research into criticalreligious education Angela Wright Newly published, Critical Religious Education in Practice by Christina Easton, Angela Goodman, Andrew Wright and Angela Wright (Routledge 2019) suggests that...

The concept of a worldview is one that forms a crucial part of the recommendations in the Commission on RE’s report. It is also a term that can be controversial and one that isn’t easy to define (not bad things in...

Peace Education for spiritual, moral, social and cultural development Sam Spencer and Amanda Lees are teachers at Erdington Hall Primary School in Birmingham. Here they share their experiences of developing peacemaking...

The Commission on Religious Education has now met for three residential meetings in each of the terms in this academic year. The Commission has also travelled around England for evidence gathering sessions in...

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...

climate justice RE from Riding Lights Theatre Company for GCSE RS sections on green issues

BBC Radio 4’s long-running discussion programme The Moral Maze picked up the coveted Trustees’ Award at the 2017 Sandford St Martin Awards for religious broadcasting. The BBC’s Director of Radio and Education,...

Friends and Heroes programmes handle big issues such as people trafficking, child labour and disability … Have you heard of Friends and Heroes? An exciting animated TV series featuring the adventures of Macky and...

Books at Press said, ‘The key purpose of this project is to help all teachers support pupils in developing their own thinking and their understanding of Christianity, as a contribution to their understanding of the...

Advisers Kate Christopher, Lat Blaylock and Julia Diamond-Conway run pupil conferences for children aged 7–19 around the country, and your school might benefit from such an event. Often, these conferences bring up to...

Described as ‘Horrible Histories meets Monty Python’, A Monk’s Tale is a lively commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the publication of Luther’s 95 Theses in 1517, told through witty sketches and songs in...

Among the challenges that the new 9–1 GCSE specifications bring with them are an increased focus on sacred texts in teaching, and an expectation that students will be able to show how the beliefs and practices of...

Mark Chater and Mike Castelli have edited this new collection of essays, to be published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in October. A glittering array of contributors consider the future of RE, seeking to chart a path...

Elsewhere in this edition of REtoday you have read about ‘reforming religion’. For NATRE it is also a time of reform and change. As we approach the end of 2017 we are reviewing the successes of our present Executive...

A 1,300-year-old gold cross found buried with the body of an Anglo-Saxon teenager in Trumpington Meadows, Cambridgeshire, is to go on display in Cambridge. The Trumpington Cross is made of gold and garnets and was found...

RE Definitions is a app for RE teachers that gives handy access to the pronunciation and meaning of more than 200 key terms. As an app on mobiles and tablets, and as a website for computers, it’s for nonspecialists who...

This is my final column as Chair of the National Association of Teachers of RE (NATRE) Executive. It has been a genuine privilege and an honour to lead the group of committed RE professionals that forms the Executive...

Over 275 RE teachers and professionals attended Strictly RE, NATRE’s annual conference, on 27 January 2018 in central London. We welcomed delegates from all over the UK, as well as from as far afield as Cyprus and...