Feb 02
Posted by: Rosemary, 02 February 2012
Creativity, Creation, and a Big Bang is a one-day conference on science and religion in the school curriculum. The conference, held by The Faraday Institute, offers an intensive and exciting programme for those with an interest in the teaching and learning of science and religion.
The conference is being held on Saturday 19 May 2012 at St Edmunds College Cambridge and costs just £20 including lunch (£15 trainees/HE students).
The keynote speaker is Professor John Hedley Brooke: ‘Newton, Science and Religion’. Research and Resource sessions are from the LASAR team (Learning about science and religion).
To register for the conference, visit the conference page of The Faraday Institute. See also the Conference flyer below.
LASAR_Conference_2012_flier.pdf
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Feb 01
Posted by: Rosemary, 01 February 2012
Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, has told the Education Select Committee that teachers will benefit from aligning themselves with professional associations: ‘They produce material on the curriculum and professional development, they have educational journals…they [all phases of educators] should be part of one fused profession’.
In advance of the session the Committee asked the public to suggest questions via twitter. More than 5000 tweets were received. All the questions were reviewed and a selection used to prepare for the session and decide the topics to be raised.
A video of the full Committee proceedings can be seen on this link. Responses to the Twitter questions being at 2.23mins. The question about professional associations begins at 2.o6 mins.
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Jan 29
Posted by: Rosemary, 29 January 2012
If you are looking for ideas for how to include something on the 2012 Olympics in RE lessons (primary) then do check out Issue 5 of Primary Subjects, published by the CfSA. This issue includes a four-page curriculum leaflet specifically on RE that was written by NATRE. Issue 5 also contains equivalent leaflets for other subjects in the primary curriculum.
For more information about Primary Subjects see the CfSA website or email NATRE if you can’t find what you are looking for. NATRE is a member organisation of the CfSA.
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Jan 23
Posted by: Rosemary, 23 January 2012
A letter has been sent to Sir Michael Wilshaw, newly appointed Chief Inspector (HMCI) at Ofsted, regarding the new Ofsted framework and theconcerns about RE. The letter has gone jointly from NATRE and the RE Council.
HMCI_ofsted_letter_18_Jan_final.pdf
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Jan 21
Posted by: Rosemary, 21 January 2012
Details of Farmington Fellowships for 2012-2013 are now available. They are open to Secondary and Primary school teachers, teachers of RE to children with Special Educational Needs, and Headteachers.
The brochure below provides information about the nature and purpose of the Fellowships. Further details can be found on the Farmington Institures’s website.
Fellowship_Leaflet_2012-13.pdf
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