In previous blog posts, I have looked to outline the many ways in The Writing Revolution has developed my understanding of how to teach writing. In this post, I want to outline strategies from The Writing Revolution which will enable students to write great essay introductions. Whilst I will take a KS5 focus, I believe […] … More Writing essay introductions — Joe Kinnaird

In the last couple of weeks, it has been great to be part of discussions with RE colleagues regarding how to use scholarship within our curriculum. With an emphasis on high challenge and low threat, using scholarship can be an excellent way of adding further academic rigour to our curriculum. There has been some superb […] … More How I use scholarship in RE — Joe Kinnaird

I have always struggled with getting students to write well in RE. In the past, I have used templates to help structure and focus their writing. However, I often find these templates to be too prescriptive or limiting. I want students to be able to write fluent, knowledge-rich sentences without having to follow a specific […] … More Writing beautiful sentences in RE — Joe Kinnaird

In my previous blog post, I looked to explore some sentence level strategies from The Writing Revolution and how they can be applied to RE so students can write beautiful sentences. In this post, I want to focus on strategies for expanding sentences and writing a beautiful, knowledge-rich paragraph. Expanding sentences To get students writing […] … More Writing a beautiful paragraph in RE — Joe Kinnaird

In previous blog posts on sentences and writing a paragraph, I have looked to outline some strategies to help students with their academic writing in RE. In this post, I want to outline how I help them plan for writing an essay. This post will be based on upcoming Year 8 essay where students are […] … More Writing an essay in Key Stage 3 RE — Joe Kinnaird

Over the past three terms I have had the rare privilege of being able to rewrite our school’s RE curriculum from scratch. The curriculum is still a work-in-progress and it will remain a work-in-progress long after I have finished writing each individual scheme-of-learning. This blog post comes partly out of the big picture planning which […] … More Takeaways from Primary RE — A. J. Smith

I love teaching RS GCSE. I know that our students learn more now about the theology, philosophy and social sciences that underpin our amazing subject than they used to, and they come out with a really clear understanding of some of the different worldviews that they encounter. They can hold really intelligent conversations with each […] … More Testing, Testing…1,2,3 — Talking about Teaching

I used to tell my students, ‘when all else fails… love your neighbour’ There was a time when ‘Love your neighbour’ was just about the only quote that you could guarantee that every student would use in the RS GCSE. They’d use it for everything… wealth and poverty, religion and sport (what was that about?). […] … More Keep Calm… and John 3:16 doesn’t really have the same ring to it! — Talking about Teaching

“…there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know…” (United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2002) The Latin origin of the word revision suggests the student must “look again”. Sadly, we know that just ‘looking’ at work again is of little use. However, I’d go further – the whole concept… Rethinking … More Rethinking Revision with Andy Lewis — RE – Oxford Education Blog

by Nikki McGee The image above was a display in my previous classroom that I spent a good few days of a summer holiday printing, laminating and putting up.  It was a philosophers’ timeline and I did think that it was the best RE display in the world.  I probably tweeted about it at the […] … More Divine Diversity — Reforming RE