Autumn 2024

Shedding light on humanist values

• ExternalWhat I believe: humanist ideas and philosophies to live by, Andrew Copson (Piatkus, November 2024)
• ExternalUnderstanding Humanism website
• External'What I believe' podcast
• ExternalHumanists UK YouTube channel

'Life is a pilgrimage to find our way home to God' (The Archbishop of York)

• ExternalP is for Pilgrim, Stephen Cottrell (Hodder & Stoughton 2024)
• ExternalChristian Concepts - Life is a pilgrimage

'Do we stick it in our books?'

• ExternalKatherine Wedell's website, with free inclusive resources and lesson plans

Creating a religion and worldviews curriculum

• ExternalRE:online blog about the framework

Spotlight on the 'ways of knowing'

• ExternalAssessing progress in RE, on Diocese of Lincoln website
• ExternalRE in a broad and balanced curriculum: a practical tool (RE:online)
• External'Getting better at ways of knowing' presentation
• ExternalThe RE Podcast: the one about assessment in primary RE

Clarity and curriculum

• ExternalWelsh Government: Curriculum for Wales
• ExternalBishops' Conference of England and Wales (2023), To know you more clearly (Religious Education Directory for Catholic schools, colleges and academies in England and Wales) (London: Catholic Education Service)
• External'Successful futures' Independent Review of Curriculum and Assessment Arrangements in Wales
• ExternalThe Spiral Curriculum: a teacher's guide (2022)
• ExternalSource to Summit (OUP) course to support KS3 Religious Education Directory
• External'Why Curriculum for Wales must empower teachers', Gareth Evans, Tes magazine (20 February 2024)
• External'Everything starts with the curriculum', Nuno Crato, Research ED (27 February 2019)

Giving it all you've got: the story of Solarity

• ExternalSolarity resource for out-of-school-hours religion and philosophy clubs, Sea of Faith Network

Luminous calligraphy in the infants

• ExternalFurther examples and information about the art of Hannah Dunnett

Education and religion through the window

• ExternalResearch Excellence Framework website (headlined REF 2029, the site includes previous reports going back to 2014)
• External'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

• ExternalMaia Duerr's 'Tree of contemplative practices'
• ExternalUniversity of Winchester Institute for Contemplative Education and Practice on Twitter/X

A new approach to Buddhist terminology

• ExternalNaomi Appleton's 'Buddhism teaching resources' blogs
• ExternalGlossary 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

• External'Deep and meaningful? The religious education subject report' (Ofsted, 17 April 2024)
• External'8 black theologians you should know about', Chine McDonald Premier Christianity, 29 October 2021
• External'I have only one hope for racial justice: a God who conquered death', Esau McCaulley Christianity Today, 10 June 2020
• ExternalHumanist school speakers, Humanists UK

Real voices: Illuminating RE

• ExternalBasics of Sikhi website
• ExternalWhose Worldviews? website
• External'Nobody stands nowhere' video, Theos

Getting REady for a new beginning

• ExternalThe RE Podcast
• ExternalCulham St Gabriel's RExChange

Ask an adviser!

• ExternalRE Hubs
• ExternalOfsted report (April 2024): 'Deep and meaningful? The religious education subject report'

Making RE deep and meaningful? After Ofsted

• ExternalOfsted (2013), 'Religious Education: Realising the Potential'
• ExternalOfsted (2021), ‘Research review series: religious education’
• ExternalOfsted (2024), 'Deep and Meaningful? The Religious Education Subject Report'
• ExternalReligious Education Council (2024), Developing a Religion and Worldviews Approach in Religious Education in England: A Handbook for Curriculum Writers

Shared space

• ExternalSharing Space, Rehumanising Teacher Education (RHTE)
• ExternalHistorical Association, Teacher Fellowship Programme (primary)

'We don't have blasphemy laws in England.' What does this mean for RE?

• External‘We do not have blasphemy laws in Great Britain’, Suella Braverman 04 March 2023 The Times

'Everything that has a beginning has an ending'

• ExternalCarla Tonks' presentation on YouTube: 'How does the teaching of Buddhist thought in Year 9 Religious Studies strengthen girls' resilience when dealing with change?'
• ExternalFull report of the research, available to member schools of International Coalition of Girls Schools (ICGS)

Religion - the most important subject on the curriculum?

• ExternalBBC i-player 'Faith & Hope' programmes
• ExternalDaisy Scalchi on BBC religious television content, Religion Media Festival 2023 on YouTube
• ExternalBBC i-player 'Love, Faith & Me' series
• ExternalThe ERA licence (Educational Recording Agency)
• External'Developing a Religion and Worldviews approach in Religious Education in England', Stephen Pett, REC 2024

Remembering Lesley Prior

• External'Honouring memories of our colleague and friend Lesley Prior' on Kudoboard

On Reflection: The Religion, Belief and Worldviews hub

• ExternalReligion, belief and worldviews hub on the Open University 'OpenLearn' website
• ExternalFree 'OpenLearn' course: Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
• ExternalFree 'OpenLearn' course: A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
• ExternalFree 'OpenLearn' course: Veiling
• ExternalArticle on the Open University 'OpenLearn' website: 'Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?' by Rukhsana Malik, updated 18 August 2023
• ExternalFree 'OpenLearn' course: Young people and religion - creative learning with history

External links:

• ExternalNATRE Local Groups