For the classroom

Louisa Jane Smith is host of The RE Podcast, a teacher of RE with 21 years’ experience, a head of PSHE, a mother and a ‘film geek!’ Here she shares her practical and sometimes challenging reflections on...

Following on from Peter Vardy’s insightful reflections on the benefits to children of engaging with philosophy, Angela Hill offers some practical tips to teachers wanting to make discussion in RE more...

Lat Blaylock suggests a fresh approach to green issues in RE. All religions and beliefs take a view on the relationships between humanity, nature, environment and planet – and always have done. There could be no...

Lat Blaylock reports from the Aga Khan Centre’s exhibition on religion and football, exploring some ways to engage in thoughtful study about faith and footie. ‘Score, then worship’ is a common Match of the Day...

Zameer Hussain considers the controversy within Islam about the celebration of the Prophet’s birthday. Read the article with your learners and discuss the questions at the end.

Nicola Wall
Building working relationships had always been something I was proud of. It came naturally and I counted it as one of my strengths. I realised early in my career how important fostering good...

The DESIblitz Literature Festival celebrates south Asian literature and culture – find out lots more at www.desiblitz.com/arts/events/ The festival gave RE students from Bedfordshire the chance to interview ‘young...

Jennifer Harding-Richards shares ideas about using pupil day conferences to explore issues about race and justice through 'Religion, Values and Ethics'.

There are few universal experiences in life, but I am willing to bet that all teachers have at some point been stood in front of a group of children who will swear blind that they have never before been given the...

Lat Blaylock wants more and better discussion of beliefs and big ideas. Here is a way to get it.

Karen Turner teaches RE in Nottinghamshire. Here is her take on celebrations and festivals in RE.

We teachers can all agree that teaching about diversity is an essential part of religion and worldviews education (RWE).

Emely Keane teaches at Welton in Lincolnshire, and has been researching ways to enable pupils to acquire and use a rich language of religion and belief. Here’s how!

Rachael Jackson-Royal, who teaches in Birmingham, and Janet Orchard of the University of Bristol wanted to find new ways to explore issues about race and equalities for both researchers and teachers of RE. Here is...

Mohammed Ali Amla, Youth & Partnerships Director, offers an introduction to the education charity Solutions Not Sides.

This crowdsourced article poses the question: what does great RE look like on the frontier with history? There are all kinds of good reasons to link RE and history, and in some ways RE needs the disciplines of history...

Simplified scriptures are a great teaching tool. Teachers of RE have long used simplified versions of biblical story books to teach Christianity, and My First Qur’an is a big seller from the NATRE shop, offering...

In this study, pupils learn about forgiveness from an Islamic example, connecting to Qur’anic text, a Hadith of the Prophet, contemporary concerns about fanaticism and far-right extremism, and some ethical and...

RE Today interviewed Michael Mail, Chief Executive of the Foundation For Jewish Heritage about the story of a wonderful building.

Julie Childs teaches RE in Lincolnshire and Lat Blaylock is Editor of REtoday. They encourage all primary subject leaders to audit staff subject knowledge and confidence every couple of years. Here are three samples...