How to meet the requirement to teach RE to sixth-form students who have not made the sensible decision to take A-level RS? It’s one of the challenges I’ve faced in more than 20 years of teaching. I’ve tried day-conferences with speakers. I created an ‘exciting’ course in topical ethical issues. Whatever I tried always took […] … More Cracking post-16 statutory RE — Miss Eva RE Teacher

In my previous blog post, I focused on the “curse of content coverage”; how trying to cram in too much content meant superficial lessons with no space for extended writing or oracy skills, and my whole class feedback lacked impact. Term 2 The Abrahamic Faiths In this unit of work, our Year 7s study the […] … More A year in my classroom – Part 2 — RE with Mrs McGee

by Jennifer Harding – Richards I have been a head of department for a very long time, and an RE teacher for even longer! Leading and managing a department often identified as the school’s ‘flagship’ department, with full cohort GCSE RS entry, excellent results and positive pupil feedback, I genuinely thought that I had it […] … More My Curriculum Journey — Reforming RE

In the last 18 months, I have really enjoyed getting to grips with how we can bring in texts and scholarship into the RE classroom in a meaningful way. My RE lessons always involve lots of reading but I started to consider the level of challenge in the reading. Did the reading merely tell students […] … More How can we use texts and scholarship in the RE classroom? — Joe Kinnaird