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Key stage 3
Welcome to the NATRE Secondary Subject Leader Pages for Religious Education at Key Stage 3.
We have many resources and links to support your role as subject leader in this key aspect of teaching Religious Education.
Designing a high-quality RE curriculum for Key Stage 3 requires careful thought, ensuring it is coherent, engaging, academically rigorous and the needs of your students. Whether you are developing a new curriculum or refining an existing one, this page provides links to a range of guidance and support to help you create and deliver excellent RE.
Explore the resources and links to access guidance and practical tools to support curriculum development in your school. role and support the teaching of effective RE in your school.
Secondary subject leader: Getting started
Where to start
Below you will see different examples of RE policies from different types of schools. You might wish to use these to help you to write your own school RE policy. Click the links below to view these samples:
- The National Content Standard for RE sets out the minimum requirements for RE in England: National content standard for Religious education IN England This also states what the legal requirements are for RE in your school. We would strongly recommend checking whether your school is required to follow your local agreed syllabus.
- The Teacher Led Framework of the REC Religion and Worldviews Approach to RE toolkit gives a set of questions to allow curriculum writers to reflect on their current schemes of work to ensure they reflect a Religion and Worldviews approach:
- There are a plethora of resources from when NATRE held a Curriculum Symposium in 2021 to discuss RE curriculum
- The National College offers a range of courses on curriculum intent, implementation and impact:
Exemplars
- Oak Academy have produced new units for RE in line with a Religion and Worldviews approach: Free KS3 Religious education teaching resources | Page 1 of 2 | Oak National Academy
- In 2024, many colleagues came together for the Curriculum Conversations ran by Natalie Ford. This allowed teachers to share their KS3 curriculums and schemes of work for inspiration and reflection: Sefton and Friends RE Hubhttps://meolscop.my.canva.site/seftonandfriendsrehub#curriculum-conversations-2024
- Secondary Religious Education Curriculum Map – exemplar document from Broughton High School
- Secondary Religious Education Curriculum Map – exemplar document from Archway Learning Trust
Don’t forget that your NATRE membership also gives you access to many other documents & support materials!
Blogs
- How I… ensure KS3 SOWs are ambitious – RE:ONLINE
- What does our KS3 RE curriculum look like and why? – Joe Kinnaird
- A Multidisciplinary Approach for KS3 – RE:ONLINE
- Unity and Diversity: Exploring Buddhism in KS3 – Reforming RE
- Building a Coherent RE Curriculum – Reforming RE
- Curriculum design in a post-commission world – Reforming RE
- The Power of a Good Curriculum – Reforming RE
- A worldviews approach to RE – what it really means for teachers | missdcoxblog
Don’t forget that your NATRE membership also gives you access to many other documents & support materials!