Spring 2026
Theme: Let's Talk!
Highlights from this issue:
- Exclusive interview: Social entrepreneur, author and former Downing Street adviser Samuel Kasumu talks to Shammi Rahman for REtoday about faith, leadership and why RE matters
- Active classroom strategies to promote oracy: articles from teachers, academics and advisers with great ideas and tried and tested methods for improving standards of oracy in your setting
- Curriculum planning: advice from Roy Watson-Davis about planning a connected curriculum that benefits you, your pupils and your career
- Creativity on display: we celebrate Spirited Arts winners and look at how art and poetry can boost deep thinking and confident expression
- Inspiring case study for secondary students: Lat Blaylock provides classroom ideas around the life and work of Dr Denis Mukwege – Congo’s Nobel Peace Prize winner who campaigns against the sexual violence so often inflicted as a weapon of war
Select a topic to explore resources
RE news and policy updates
- ExternalOfsted’s new inspection framework: NATRE presentation on what it means for RE
- ExternalOfsted guidance about the new inspection framework
- ExternalTeacher recruitment crisis deepens as bursary removed: report from NATRE
- ExternalThe Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill
- ExternalOnline CPD Academy launched for teachers
Classroom and curriculum resources
- ExternalBBC Bitesize for Teachers
- ExternalBBC’s archive of programmes, of interest for RE teachers
- ExternalBecoming Prayer: A Franciscan Guide to Learning to Pray, by Dr Simon Cocksedge and Franciscan friar Nicholas Alan Worssam SSF (Canterbury Press, 30 January 2026)
- ExternalHawai'i: kingdom crossing oceans exhibition at the British Museum
- ExternalHolocaust museum schools programme
- ExternalUnderstanding Christianity training
- ExternalInterfaith week resources for schools
- ExternalProject Touchline: website
- ExternalProject Touchline: film
- ExternalNew interdisciplinary resources from Education Scotland
- ExternalNew Humanists UK ‘Understanding Humanism’ resources for Wales
Networks, conferences and hubs
- ExternalRE Hubs website
- ExternalRegional Teach-Meets for RME teachers: Scottish Teachers Association of RME
- ExternalISME 2026 conference: Narrative, ethics and flourishing life
Projects, research and surveys
Faith, dialogue and public life: interview with Samuel Kasumu
- ExternalSamuel Kasumu's website
- ExternalThe Power of the Outsider: book by Samuel Kasumu (Hodder & Stoughton 2023)
NATRE Update: NATRE Chair
- ExternalStrictly RE 2026
Understanding Muslims, Understanding Islam
The magic of Spirited Arts: behind the scenes
Oracy and RE: theory, practice, reflections
- ExternalGaunt, A., and Stott A. (2019), Transform Teaching and Learning through Talk: The Oracy Imperative (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.)
- ExternalNewman, D. (2020), The Noisy Classroom: Developing Debate and Critical Oracy in Schools (Abingdon: Routledge)
Teach Primary Awards recognition for RE Today curriculum resources
- ExternalRE Today Primary RE Curriculum
Ensuring all voices are heard
- ExternalOracy Education Commission: We Need to Talk: The Report of the Commission on the Future of Oracy Education in England October 2024 including James Mannion's written evidence on p. 37
- ExternalOracy Cambridge
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Denis Mukwege: a life story in 12 parts
- InternalDenis Mukwege: a life story in 12 partsSheet with 12 cards featuring life events of Dr Denis Mukwege, doctor and campaigner against sexual violence towards women. For use in a case study on the life of this Pentecostal Christian and Nobel laureate from DRC Congo.
Select a topic to explore resources
News and eventsOpinion and insightFor the classroomFor the staffroomThe big pictureProfessional REflection
RE news and policy updates
- InternalOfsted’s new inspection framework: NATRE presentation on what it means for RE
- ExternalOfsted guidance about the new inspection framework
- InternalTeacher recruitment crisis deepens as bursary removed: report from NATRE
- ExternalThe Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill
- ExternalOnline CPD Academy launched for teachers
Classroom and curriculum resources
- ExternalBBC Bitesize for Teachers
- ExternalBBC’s archive of programmes, of interest for RE teachers
- ExternalBecoming Prayer: A Franciscan Guide to Learning to Pray, by Dr Simon Cocksedge and Franciscan friar Nicholas Alan Worssam SSF (Canterbury Press, 30 January 2026)
- ExternalHawai'i: kingdom crossing oceans exhibition at the British Museum
- ExternalHolocaust museum schools programme
- ExternalUnderstanding Christianity training
- ExternalInterfaith week resources for schools
- ExternalProject Touchline: website
- ExternalProject Touchline: film
- ExternalNew interdisciplinary resources from Education Scotland
- ExternalNew Humanists UK ‘Understanding Humanism’ resources for Wales
Networks, conferences and hubs
- ExternalRE Hubs website
- ExternalRegional Teach-Meets for RME teachers: Scottish Teachers Association of RME
- ExternalISME 2026 conference: Narrative, ethics and flourishing life
Projects, research and surveys
Faith, dialogue and public life: interview with Samuel Kasumu
- ExternalSamuel Kasumu's website
- ExternalThe Power of the Outsider: book by Samuel Kasumu (Hodder & Stoughton 2023)
NATRE Update: NATRE Chair
- InternalStrictly RE 2026
Understanding Muslims, Understanding Islam
The magic of Spirited Arts: behind the scenes
Oracy and RE: theory, practice, reflections
- ExternalGaunt, A., and Stott A. (2019), Transform Teaching and Learning through Talk: The Oracy Imperative (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.)
- ExternalNewman, D. (2020), The Noisy Classroom: Developing Debate and Critical Oracy in Schools (Abingdon: Routledge)
Teach Primary Awards recognition for RE Today curriculum resources
- InternalRE Today Primary RE Curriculum
Ensuring all voices are heard
- ExternalOracy Education Commission: We Need to Talk: The Report of the Commission on the Future of Oracy Education in England October 2024 including James Mannion's written evidence on p. 37
- ExternalOracy Cambridge
Member Only Content
Denis Mukwege: a life story in 12 parts
- InternalDenis Mukwege: a life story in 12 partsSheet with 12 cards featuring life events of Dr Denis Mukwege, doctor and campaigner against sexual violence towards women. For use in a case study on the life of this Pentecostal Christian and Nobel laureate from DRC Congo.
