Last word
How a NATRE-supported parental complaint resulted in improved provision for RE at an Academy
Sept 2018: The initial parental complaint The complaint focused on the academy’s failure to comply with its Funding Agreement (FA) with the DfE (Department for Education) regarding provision of RE. A subsidiary...
Obituary: Dr Bill Gent
With great sadness and affectionate memories, we share the news that Dr Bill Gent, Redbridge’s brilliant and much-loved RE adviser and a long-time supporter of RE Today and editor of our magazines REsource and...
Damn the syrup!
Humanities 2020: a campaign for a fresh vision for the primary curriculum, including RE, history and geography
An update on the Commission on RE from the RE Council
Since the Commission on Religious Education’s final report came out in autumn 2018, its vision and recommendations have been at the heart of discussions about the future of the subject. Should any readers of REtoday...
The joy of education
Nigel Genders is the Chief Education Officer for the Church of England. He spoke about transformation through education at the Head Teachers’ conference for the Diocese of Leicester. This perspective from within the...
‘I–Thou’: the world, our students, ourselves
Queen Elizabeth, servant of God?
Shredded Wheat, funny zebras and Greek earthquakes
It is hardly a startlingly new insight to say that the process of learning is intrinsically bound up with memory and memorisation. We know this now, as have human beings and societies since the dawn of time (but how...
Bishop Libby – The first of her kind
The Church of England consecrated the Right Reverend Libby Lane, 48, as Bishop of Stockport in front of more than 1000 people at York Minster earlier this year. REtoday interviewed her about her appointment.
Survivors, not products
Remembering John Hull
Against the Baals
Actor David Suchet: ‘Reading the Bible is my biggest role’
Suspension of belief
Is taking a worldviews approach to RE on board opening up Pandora’s box, inviting a surfeit of honesty? What is my worldview? Chris Boxley, RE Today editorial team member, reflects on the personal and the...
Let us play …
Open letter to Religious Studies teachers in memory of my own teacher, Kenneth Oldfield, at the Lakes School, Windermere, 1978–84
Not a lot of people knew the phrase ‘global village’ in 1978 in Windermere.
Not a lot of people knew that it was Cat Stevens, not Rod Stewart, who wrote ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest.’
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When worlds collide
When Worlds Collide is a fantastic 1951 sci-fi film. A star, Bellus, hurtles towards Earth, threatening its very existence. Philanthropists build a rocket to save a small group of humans, a modern-day Noah’s ark...