Rosemary Rivett

Before taking up her post with the RE Today Professional Team, Rosemary was Head of RE in three schools and had whole school responsibility for spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. She has developed and raised the profile of an RE department in the 11-19 context, and has introduced and resourced successful GCSE and A Level courses. Development of a department intranet website, and integrating this into the curriculum, led her to explore whether use of ICT could raise GCSE RS performance.

Rosemary has worked at local and national level on a variety of initiatives which support effective use of ICT in RE and develop resources. She has edited and written for a range of RE Today Services' publications, including the Developing Secondary RE series. She is currently editor of our highly successful Teacher's Handbook of RE (2nd and 3rd editions).

She has wide experience of consultancy, with Becta, QCA and the BBC drawing on her expertise, as well as Local Authorities and SACREs. Among other things, she can offer support on:

• Developing the use of ICT as a tool to support learning in RE
• Developing and resourcing a successful RE department
• Developing and introducing a new Agreed Syllabus
• Effective management of an RE department
• Developing effective teaching and learning styles in RE
• Assessment in RE
• RE for teachers with other specialisms
• Raising standards in RE 11 - 14 and 14 - 19.

Courses and consultancy can be provided according to the requirements of those involved, and tailored to meet particular needs. As part of her work within our team, Rosemary is Executive Officer of National Association of Teachers of Religious Education (NATRE) - formerly PCfRE. From 1st January 2007 she is our Director of Professional Services.

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Lat Blaylock

Lat works offering consultancy to local authorities, and training and professional development to teachers of RE in schools. He taught for 11 years, most recently as Head of RE and Humanities at a large multi-ethnic 11-19 school in Leicester.

He is widely experienced as a consultant with the DCSF, QCA and the BBC amongst others drawing on his services. The most recent resources he's been involved in producing are Picturing Easter, Tackling Tough Questions, Spiritual Engagement and Curriculum Bites (with the BBC) - secondary focus, and RE Ideas: Christianity (photocopy material for 7 to 11 year olds) - co-written. He is editor of our REtoday magazine, an integral part of our subscription service.

Lat is well known for his expertise in leading courses on a wide range of topics and areas in RE, including...

• RE and Assessment issues
• Raising standards in RE
• Better RE at  Key Stages 3 and 4
• Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development
• RE for teachers with other specialisms
• GCSE, A Level and RE for all 14-19
• RE and thinking skills
• RE, Community Cohesion and Citizenship

His assessment and skill development courses are highly acclaimed and his practical, realistic and challenging material and approaches well appreciated by course participants. Courses and consultancy can be provided according to the requirements of those involved, and tailored to meet particular needs.

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Joyce Mackley

Joyce Mackley can come to your school, local authority, SACRE, Diocese or training event to work with teachers, RE subject leaders, staff teams or Agreed Syllabus Conferences to help in the development of RE policy and practice.  She has wide experience of offering consultancy and training to schools, Local Authorities, Standing Advisory Councils for RE, conference providers and other bodies including QCA and NATRE (National Association of Teachers of RE).

Joyce has wide ranging experience of RE in all phases. She taught in three Local Authorities, leading successful RE and Humanities departments before joining RE Today as director of a curriculum development project supporting spiritual development.

As a national RE adviser with RE Today she has:

• supported curriculum development in RE in schools and LA's in the UK and abroad through courses and consultancy
• supported Agreed Syllabus development in a number of local authorities
• developed and led RE CPD and SCITT courses
• edited RE Today Services' termly publications including the  highly acclaimed Developing Primary RE  series.  She is currently editor of the primary series 'Exploring a theme' and continues to write for this and other RE Today publications
• Written for many of the RE Today publications and is the co-author of  'A-Z Active learning strategies for spiritual and moral development, one of our best-selling titles

Some of the courses Joyce offers are:

Primary

• Assessing primary RE
• Active and experiential RE in the primary classroom
• Active and experiential RE in the primary classroom
• Approaches to teaching Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism in the primary school
• Planning and developing quality RE in the primary school

Courses and consultancy can be provided according to the requirements of those involved, and tailored to meet particular needs.

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Paul Newbould

Paul is based in Gloucestershire, and is a primary specialist.

He has taught across the primary age range, most recently in a church school context, with responsibility for RE and Collective Worship. He has wide experience in both key stages and an enthusiasm for Key Stage One, and asserts that: if you can make something work at KS1 you can adapt it to work at any age.

He has been actively involved in SACRE work over many years having supported the revision of three successive agreed syllabuses. He has led workshops for RE teachers in a variety of contexts to encourage effective teaching of an agreed syllabus, and engagement with and enjoyment of the subject by young learners.

Paul has a particular interest in how children learn within RE, and his recent Farmington Fellowship explored the potency of talk within primary RE and identified ways in which dialogue can increase engagement, release creativity and mobilise meaning.

Paul has written for a variety of publications, including RE Today, and has starred in the Teachers TV programme called 'Big Ideas for Small People'.

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Stephen Pett

Stephen will be joining the team in September 2008. He has been a secondary Head of RE for 14 years, seven of these as an Advanced Skills Teacher.

He has been Chair of SACRE for nine years and has overseen the development of its locally agreed syllabus and non-statutory guidance, as well as being involved in training teachers in its implementation.  His AST post included working with schools in all aspects of teaching and learning, including creative task setting and active learning in A-level RS, developing ICT, particularly through video conferencing and innovative use of tablet PCs, and promoting spiritual development.

He has written for RE Today, and for some local authority publications including an interfaith teaching pack for Y7 and a guide for subject leaders, At Least 200 Tips for RE Subject Leaders. He has been involved in a project with Oxford University applying the findings of neuroscience to teaching and learning, and the links between RE and well-being is a continuing interest.