REtoday magazine: Illuminating RE
Magazine section: News and events
External links:
- Jewish Living Online (JLO) website
- Whose Worldviews? online resource - interactive website
- WASACRE Conference 2024 website
- Ofsted: 'Deep and meaningful - the religious education subject report' (April 2024)
- NATRE announcement and response to Ofsted's 'Deep and meaningful' report
- Religious Education Council: new curriculum toolkit 'Welcome to a Religion and Worldviews approach'
- NATRE's annual conference: Strictly RE 2025
Magazine section: Opinion and Insight
External links:
- Shedding light on humanist values
- 'Life is a pilgrimage to find our way home to God' (The Archbishop of York)
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- 'Life is a pilgrimage to find our way home to God'
- Worksheet for the 'define-compare-improve' Christian concepts exercise suggested in the article (cover page for teachers, 4 pages for students)
Members only
- 'Life is a pilgrimage to find our way home to God'
Magazine section: For the classroom
External links:
- 'Do we stick it in our books?'
- Creating a religion and worldviews curriculum
- Spotlight on the 'ways of knowing'
- Clarity and curriculum
- Welsh Government: Curriculum for Wales
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Bishops' Conference of England and Wales (2023), To know youcolleges and academies in England and Wales) (London: CatholicEducation Service)
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Professor Graham Donaldson CB (February 2015)
- The Spiral Curriculum: a teacher's guide (2022)
- No more marking, 'The tyranny of the progression statement', Daisy Christodoulou (28.02.24)
- Diane Ravitch's blog: 'What am I trying to sell?' by E.D. Hirsch Jr
- Source to Summit (OUP) course to support KS3 Religious Education Directory
- 'Why Curriculum for Wales must empower teachers', Gareth Evans, Tes magazine (20 February 2024)
- 'Everything starts with the curriculum', Nuno Crato, Research ED (27 February 2019)
- Giving it all you've got: the story of Solarity
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Solarity resource for out-of-school-hours religion and philosophy clubs, Sea of Faith Network
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- Luminous calligraphy in the infants
- Education and religion through the window
- Research Excellence Framework website (headlined REF 2029, the site includes previous reports going back to 2014)
- 'Stern, L J (2021) ‘Uncertainty and Mortality: Two Stubborn Particulars of Religious Education’, in Franck, O and Thalén, P (eds) (2021) Religious Education in a Post-Secular Age: Case Studies from Europe (Cham, Palgrave) chapter 7, pp 123-138
- The contemplative classroom
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- Worldviews and Jury Duty
- PowerPoint presentation 'Jury duty and a question of British values' to support the article in REtoday
Magazine section: For the staffroom
External links:
- A new approach to Buddhist terminology
- Naomi Appleton's 'Buddhism teaching resources' blogs on the University of Edinburgh website
- Glossary of key terms downloadable as a Word document or pdf from Naomi Appleton's blog page on the University of Edinburgh website
- Illuminating RE in a sixth form setting
- 'Deep and meaningful? The religious education subject report' (Ofsted, 17 April 2024)
- '8 black theologians you should know about', Chine McDonald Premier Christianity, 29 October 2021
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'I have only one hope for racial justice: a God who conquered death', Esau McCaulley Christianity Today, 10 June 2020
- Humanist school speakers, Humanists UK
- Real voices: Illuminating RE
- Getting REady for a new beginning
- Ask an adviser!
- RE Hubs
- Ofsted report (April 2024): 'Deep and meaningful? The religious education subject report'
Magazine section: The big picture
Members only
- PPT presentation 'Velines: Lithuanian Day of the Dead', for use in the classroom with pupils aged 14-19. NB Thinking will turn to themes of death and the afterlife. Please be mindful of sensitivities around these issues among the pupils you teach.
Magazine section: Professional REflection
External links:
- Making RE deep and meaningful? After Ofsted
- Ofsted (2013), 'Religious Education: Realising the Potential'
- Ofsted (2021), ‘Research review series: religious education’
- Ofsted (2024), 'Deep and Meaningful? The Religious Education Subject Report'
- Religious Education Council (2024), Developing a Religion and Worldviews Approach in Religious Education in England: A Handbook for Curriculum Writers
- Shared space
- 'We don't have blasphemy laws in England.' What does this mean for RE?
- ‘We do not have blasphemy laws in Great Britain’, Suella Braverman 04 March 2023 The Times
- 'Everything that has a beginning has an ending'
- Carla Tonks' presentation on YouTube: 'How does the teaching of Buddhist thought in Year 9 Religious Studies strengthen girls' resilience when dealing with change?'
- Full report of the research, available to member schools of International Coalition of Girls Schools (ICGS)
- Religion - the most important subject on the curriculum?
- BBC i-player 'Faith & Hope' programmes
- Daisy Scalchi on BBC religious television content, Religion Media Festival 2023 on YouTube
- BBC i-player 'Love, Faith & Me' series
- The ERA licence (Educational Recording Agency)
- 'Developing a Religion and Worldviews approach in Religious Education in England', Stephen Pett, REC 2024
- Remembering Lesley Prior
- On Reflection: The Religion, Belief and Worldviews hub
- Religion, belief and worldviews hub on the Open University 'OpenLearn' website
- Free 'OpenLearn' course: Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
- Free 'OpenLearn' course: A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
- Free 'OpenLearn' course: Veiling
- Article on the Open University 'OpenLearn' website: 'Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?' by Rukhsana Malik, updated 18 August 2023
- Free 'OpenLearn' course: Young people and religion - creative learning with history
- Free 'OpenLearn' course: An education in Religion and Worldviews
