REtoday magazine

Highlights from this issue:

• Faith, fame, authenticity … and RE: Harry Clark – ‘Traitors’ winner also featuring in the BBC’s latest ‘Pilgrimage’ series – talks exclusively to REtoday (pp. 10-13) 
• Life, love and loss: civil celebrant and former RE teacher James Terry shares his experience of marking life’s milestones for people of various worldviews, religious and non-religious (pp. 18-19)
• Active learning strategies: exploring Rosh Hashanah in a primary SEN setting, plus: approaching big questions with young pupils, teaching dharmic faiths in secondary schools, and many other lesson and assessment ideas from RE teachers and their own classrooms
• Reflections on Umrah: Ridwana Wallace-Laher, Director of Growth at Islamic Help, travelled with a group of young refugees on the pilgrimage to Makkah (pp. 30-31)
• ‘Cymru, Cenedl Fwyaf Llythrennog y Byd?’ (‘Wales, the most literate nation in the world?’) Ysgol Penboyr primary pupils take a deep dive into their local religious and cultural heritage to learn about how churchman Griffith Jones and philanthropist Bridget Bevan revolutionised literacy in eighteenth-century Wales (pp. 40-41)
• Real perspectives on depth and diversity from Sikh, Spiritualist, Christian, Bahá’í, Jewish and Hindu voices (pp.75–81) 

And so much more!