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As a Head of Department in a large secondary school, transition is something that has always vexed  me. To give some context, my school is in a multi-academy trust (MAT), although this is still ar relatively new...

Stepping into the classroom is still e singularly most terrifying and most empowering thing I have done. The empowering part, however, came quite a while later on! Teaching was not my first career, and I began...

In the dynamic and ever-evolving world of primary education and curriculum design, the integration of various sciplines enhances the depth and breadth of student learning. And this is no different when approaching RE....

Exploring the ethical dimensions of veganism offers a profound link to RE, where moral reasoning and the study of values are paramount.

Hugo Whately gives us insight into THE ABC FOR KEY STAGE 3

Exploring religious and social belonging through food with Paul Slater and Dr. Hephzibah Israel

The aim of the project is for students to fully place themselves into the narrative of climate emergency, rather than seeing it as a problem for others to solve.

There is strong interest in learners as researchers in RE presently, and this article sets your pupils up to do some research for themselves about Muslims and values. RE Today’s National Muslim Youth Survey (2022)...

How will you teach Holy Week and Easter to the 4–11s this year?

At West Ham Church Primary School our vision and values are theologically grounded by the Bible text ‘With God, all things are possible’ (Matthew 19:26).

VISION AND VALUES FOR THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY

Ceris Sauro is a PPA teacher and Humanities Lead at Pontyberem Primary School in Carmarthenshire.

An exciting new resource for EYFS and Key Stage 1 pupils

‘Belief’, ‘faith’ and ‘religion’ – three words we use interchangeably as RE teachers to try and explain key ideas and concepts. But are they the same? Are we encouraging messy understanding?"

In the summer of 2022 I read The Bible With and Without Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler (HarperOne 2020), which inspired me to re-vamp our unit on Genesis and the environment for our Year 7 spring term....

Vishal Sangu is an RS PhD student at the Open University, specialising in decolonisation, RS and Sikhi. Here, Vishal explores the problematic nature of applying gendered language to the study of dharmic traditions and...

Ethan Doyle White, author of Pagans: The Visual Culture of Pagan Myths, Legends and Rituals, offers positive and practical insight to teachers around the inclusion of Paganism in RE.

In 2018, the Commission on RE (CoRE) released its final report after a year-long investigation into the teaching of RE. The report made many recommendations, one of which was approaching the teaching of RE through the...

How can young people make sense of the vastness and antiquity of sources of wisdom and authority within religions?

Last year I attended the Excellent RE course run by Adam Robertson in which we began to look at multidisciplinary RE. In the sessions, we looked at different ways of knowing and how they might be explored with pupils....