For the classroom

In an article for Professional REflection in REtoday, Jenny Berglund and Bill Gent suggested using ‘three Bs’ to think of the interconnected, overlapping dimensions of religious identity: believing, belonging...

The growth of RS at the Winstanley School in Leicester has been an exciting journey that began nearly four years ago. I was recruited as Head of RS across the LiFE Multi- Academy Trust, which involved the brief of...

The New Room at Bristol, where John Welsey's anti-slavery preaching started a riot, is a great place to take pupils for an RE visit, but even if they can't make the trip, this activity opens up connections between...

As a teenager, Paul Cuffe (pronounced ‘Cuffee’) lived on his family’s farm in Massachusetts, USA, but he had a feeling that he wasn’t going to spend his whole life farming. The Atlantic Ocean was right on his...

Many teachers are finding it hard to maintain an engaging, provocative and active curriculum in RE under socially distanced classroom conditions. Here are ten ideas from the Editor to adapt for your classroom, hall or...

Cheshire East has few faith communities other than Christianity. Following the Manchester Arena bombings (2017), where pupils, parents and governors from Cheshire East schools were directly affected, teachers reported...

In 2006, I was lucky enough to travel to Japan. My hosts were keen to understand more about the UK and British culture. We talked about many things – Shakespeare, the Queen, the history of the Tower of London –...

Islamic identity and values are here interpreted by 9-year-olds from Riverside School, Bermondsey, with non-figurative art and help from the British Library’s amazing online collection of Muslim sacred texts in the...

Would you like to explore questions about community, values and respect with your 6–8s? Here are ideas for an RE day based upon the theme of this issue of REtoday: identities. Pupils often benefit from an intensive...

RE for Early Years pupils and infants needs active and thought-provoking ways of connecting learning about religions to experience. Here are ten suggestions that have questions of identity and belonging, our theme for...

This activity is simple, flexible and potentially profound. A part of good RE around green issues is to consider whether religions have a part to play in climate justice and responding to the climate crisis, and to...

Over 60 students representing half the secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent came together in the impressive surroundings of the council chamber to take part in three debates.

David G. Kibble, a retired RE teacher, suggests learning activities for your 11–16s. There is an extended version of this article on the RE Today members’ website.

The Revd Dr Dave Bookless is a former RE teacher. He has lived in multicultural Southall for nearly 30 years, writes and speaks widely, and loves running, Indian food, good wine and wild places.

REtoday is very glad to have this interview with Jonathan Bartley, Co-Leader of the UK Green Party. Read it with your students and consider the questions at the end of the article. If you send their responses to us...

RE is undoubtedly a key subject for developing skills of argumentation, for students to learn how to present their own ideas and to comment on and critique the arguments of others. In a world of ‘fake news’,...

Other REtoday readers will have been struck, as I have, by the way secular commentators on climate change invoke biblical apocalyptic to support their political arguments. Take, for example, Guardian columnist and...

Fiona Moss, NATRE CEO, suggests six ways to enable green thinking in RE for 4–7s.

Matthew Lane describes the impact of his whole-school approach to better RE: subject leaders in primary schools will find much to ponder here.

Ruth Valerio’s popular book L is for Lifestyle (IVP 2019, revised edition) is an A–Z of 26 short chapters about Christian green activism. REtoday asked Ruth for an article that would help young people to see how...