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
- InternalEnsuring all voices are heard (REtoday 43.2)Full article from REtoday Spring 2026 by Rebecca Ostler in collaboration with Lucy Burton about promoting oracy in the RE classroom. Why is oracy important? Why do some children find it difficult to make their voices heard and what can be done to help?
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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
- InternalEnsuring all voices are heard (REtoday 43.2)Full article from REtoday Spring 2026 by Rebecca Ostler in collaboration with Lucy Burton about promoting oracy in the RE classroom. Why is oracy important? Why do some children find it difficult to make their voices heard and what can be done to help?
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.
