For the staffroom

NASACRE’s Pearl Anniversary Conference, with more than 100 delegates from over 60 SACREs across the country, focused on some of the treasures of the past and looked forward to the golden nuggets of the future.

Alastair Ross is director of Pennine Learning and is RE adviser to several areas in the north of England. He was a secondary RE head of department.

Hazel Henson HMI was appointed as Acting Subject Lead for RE in March 2023. In this interview, she talks to Deborah Weston about the role, her career journey and her love of RE.

May I start by saying, ‘Welcome back.’ I hope that you all had a restful summer break with family and friends and are now ready for the start of the new school year. I love the beginning of the autumn term; there...

How often do you get that magical, prickles-up-the-back-of-your-neck feeling when attending a training day? I have been to good training, useful training, so-so training, ‘I’m falling asleep’ training,...

In keeping with our theme of messy religions and worldviews, we sought contributions from people whose beliefs and ways of living do not fit neatly into the traditional categories we often refer to in RE. Here they...

We asked members of different faith and belief communities a set of questions about their own lives of celebration. Here Buddhist, Bahá’í, Christian, Sikh and Muslim respondents explain what celebration means for...

RE Today’s national Muslim youth survey (2022) enabled over 200 young British Muslim people aged 11–18 to give their views, opinions and ideas on wide-ranging questions that explore ways in which being a young...

Heather Marshall is Senior Lecturer and RE PGCE Course Lead at Edge Hill University, with a decade of classroom experience and having worked across numerous RE ITT routes and institutions. In addition she is...

Luke Pollard reflects on the reasons for religion.

GoharIhsanis Chair an of the North East Islamic Centre for Education

In the last academic year one of my Year 12 pupils decided to take it upon herself to enter the John Locke Institute philosophy essay competition. To my utter delight she was chosen to attend the prizegiving weekend...

Karen Steele, who teaches in Warwickshire, wanted to make a good offer of core RE to her 16-19s.

We invited members of different communities to share their ideas about the theme of REToday for this term, and the following pages give their views. You could use these questions with senior students in your school as...

Curriculum developers and teachers are producers. Maybe not of the Hollywood variety, but they design, curate and produce educational experiences for their students. What students take from these productions is not...

Jonathan Marshall draws some key messages from the first two decades of life for a Plymouth interfaith centre. Surely every area needs this kind of spacemaking for dialogue, in which learners can ‘try on other...

Aliya Azam explores how her Shi’ah Muslim worldview relates to the new requirements of Relationships and Sex Education. What can we see when looking at issues about sex and

Shannon Brown from Brynteg Comprehensive School shares her work investigating how the new Welsh Religion, Values and Ethics curriculum is being implemented.

Andrew Jones teaches at The Reach Free School in Hertfordshire. How many of his eight methods for improved learning via homework are you currently practising? Try out some of the others!

Too often, RE makes little space for the Bahá’í faith, but in this issue of REtoday three devotees from the Bahá’í tradition share their own experience on a personal basis on our theme of worldviews. Cosma...