For the classroom

I was wandering through a Christmas market in Charlottenburg, Berlin, and I drifted into the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, where I found a flyer for the House of One. The House of One is an interfaith building that...

The profile of worldviews has been raised by the 2018 Commission on RE report. The majority of our pupils have non-religious worldviews of one kind or another. In this article, Jonathan Lanman (Co-Principal...

(and ‘Cream really does remove wrinkles’) Well-known producers of cosmetics adverts appeal to our search for well-being. Being strongly religious could significantly improve your physical and mental well-being,...

Helen Norris wanted her A level classes to be more thoughtful. Here are ten of her ideas that worked well. Relevant to other age groups too, we think. Engaging 16–19s with theology, philosophy and ethics is difficult...

Robert Kirkwood explores the mental frontier between culture and goodness. One morning in a North London school I came across a newly arrived maths teacher from India, in discussion with his Head of Department, about an...

Amrat Bava is a Hindu from Loughborough. He is active in interfaith work and a member of Leicestershire SACRE. Here, he gives teachers an insider’s overview of his religion. We’ve made suggestions for learning,...

Ashley Farrell is in his second year as an RE teacher at Beal High School, East London. He wanted to use ideas from inside a faith in his planning. Here’s how it worked. When planning a new scheme of work in my NQT...

At RE Today, we believe we have a great way of lifting a whole school’s ambition and achievement in RE through whole-school professional development, often through clusters of school, multi-academy trusts and other...

Using sacred texts to develop intercultural competencies

Rachel Kemp used her Farmington Fellowship to explore what her pupils say about RE. Any school would benefit from a ‘pupil voice’ project in RE like this one: do you really know how pupils perceive our subject? Each...

Corrine Guntrip is part of the Learning Academy Partnership and the All Saints Teaching School Alliance. Here Corrine discusses how she used music to explore theological ideas with Ilsham C of E Academy Year 4 pupils. I...

Emma McKinney is the RE subject leader at Pirton Hill Primary School in Luton. Her teaching of RE has improved thanks to pupil involvement and leadership.

Stacey Archbold teaches at St Mary’s Primary School in Hertfordshire. She has been changing her lessons round to focus on enquiry by the pupils, making sure their RE is in the mind, not merely on the page!

Sheila Plant and Jane Brooke make some practical suggestions for RE for 5-year-olds.

This article shares approaches to enable interest, engagement and deep thinking in pupils.

In Christian scriptures, God – or ‘God in Jesus’ – is sometimes compared to animals. This might be a bit surprising, because humans sometimes think animals are ‘lesser beings’ than themselves, and God is...

Dave Francis has edited a website of new resources to help teachers run out-of-school-hours sessions in religion and philosophy. Having produced 40 sessions for secondary-age students, he has now assembled more than...

A philosophical RE lesson is always good. Kay Pearce, from Cooper’s Edge School, Stroud, Gloucestershire, tried these lesson ideas out with pupils in Year 2, Year 4 and Year 6. The older children made clear...

If there is an animal close to the nation’s heart, it is surely the donkey. Those in the know reckon donkeys are good-natured, more like a dog than a horse in temperament, intelligent despite their reputation for...

Crowds of creative children flocked to Northumberland CE Academy for a day to attend a fun-packed and thought-provoking musical conference. Year 4 and 5 pupils from seven primary and first schools near the academy...