Spring 2024
Theme: Values and Ethics
Highlights from this issue:
- Dr Edna Adan Ismail reflects on the power of education and compassion, and the role her Muslim faith has played in her lifelong quest for better women’s healthcare in East Africa
- Actor and singer Jerome Flynn tells us about making his new film: ‘Land of Ahimsa’ with Dolly Vyas-Ahuja
- News and events: what is happening where you are?
- BBC’s Head of Religion and Ethics for Television, Daisy Scalchi, offers practical tips for teachers around use of programmes in the classroom
- Young Muslims share their values: survey responses
- In prison with Jesus: the work of a prison chaplain
Select a topic to explore resources
Thriving and growing: STARME
Good news: DfE extends RS teacher training bursaries
- Internal
Secondary initial teacher training recruitment rallies following restoration of £10K bursaryA 36% increase in individuals accepting offers to train as secondary RE teachers for 2024-25. Subjects offering substantial bursaries, such as Physics and Computing, show significant recruitment boosts, while those with smaller bursaries, like Art and Religious Education, see more modest increases.
New RE vision: REC publishes National Content Standard
- ExternalNational Content Standard, 1st edition, 2023
- ExternalBlog by Deborah Weston about the NCS (October 2023)
REC Worldviews Project
AREIAC update
- ExternalAssociation of RE Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants (AREIAC)
- ExternalRights Respecting Schools agenda (UNICEF)
- ExternalFreedom of Religion or Belief learning platform
What's going on at Culham St Gabriel's
Inspiring change: interview with Edna Adan Ismail
- External'A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World' by Edna Adan Isnail (HQ 2020)
- ExternalDetails of Edna Adan Ismail's work and the Templeton Prize
Meet Daisy Scalchi, BBC Head of Religion and Ethics for Television
How to teach 'values'
'The Land of Ahimsa' (Dolly Vyas-Ahuja and Jerome Flynn)
- External'Land of Ahimsa'
Religion - the remedy to equality, a student's perspective
Animal ethics in the RE Classroom
Do you want to be a Treasure Champ?
Getting to grips with racism in the classroom (in English and Welsh)
- Internal
Mynd i’r Afael ag Addysgu am Hiliaeth (RET 41.2)Teaching Against Racism RE resource. A structured tool to explore racial awareness, inclusion, and social justice in education. - Internal
Assessment by coding table (RET 41.2)Coding table for assessing religious education and tracking progress. - Internal
Young Muslims share their values – extended article (RET 41.2)Article on values shaping the lives of young Muslims.
People and the planet
What matters most at Easter?
- ExternalEaster story in 30 sentences
Assessment by coding
In prison with Jesus
Untranslateable words
Select a topic to explore resources
Events and resourcesOpinion and insightFor the classroomFor the staffroomThe big pictureProfessional REflection
Thriving and growing: STARME
Good news: DfE extends RS teacher training bursaries
- Internal Secondary initial teacher training recruitment rallies following restoration of £10K bursaryA 36% increase in individuals accepting offers to train as secondary RE teachers for 2024-25. Subjects offering substantial bursaries, such as Physics and Computing, show significant recruitment boosts, while those with smaller bursaries, like Art and Religious Education, see more modest increases.
New RE vision: REC publishes National Content Standard
- ExternalNational Content Standard, 1st edition, 2023
- ExternalBlog by Deborah Weston about the NCS (October 2023)
REC Worldviews Project
AREIAC update
- ExternalAssociation of RE Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants (AREIAC)
- ExternalRights Respecting Schools agenda (UNICEF)
- ExternalFreedom of Religion or Belief learning platform
What's going on at Culham St Gabriel's
Inspiring change: interview with Edna Adan Ismail
- External'A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World' by Edna Adan Isnail (HQ 2020)
- ExternalDetails of Edna Adan Ismail's work and the Templeton Prize
Meet Daisy Scalchi, BBC Head of Religion and Ethics for Television
How to teach 'values'
'The Land of Ahimsa' (Dolly Vyas-Ahuja and Jerome Flynn)
- External'Land of Ahimsa'
Religion - the remedy to equality, a student's perspective
Animal ethics in the RE Classroom
Do you want to be a Treasure Champ?
Getting to grips with racism in the classroom (in English and Welsh)
- Internal Mynd i’r Afael ag Addysgu am Hiliaeth (RET 41.2)Teaching Against Racism RE resource. A structured tool to explore racial awareness, inclusion, and social justice in education.
- Internal Assessment by coding table (RET 41.2)Coding table for assessing religious education and tracking progress.
- Internal Young Muslims share their values – extended article (RET 41.2)Article on values shaping the lives of young Muslims.
People and the planet
What matters most at Easter?
- InternalEaster story in 30 sentences
Assessment by coding
In prison with Jesus
We can't eat money
- Internal
