Advisers
Advisers
RE Today’s team of RE specialist advisers undertake a wide variety of consultancy roles e.g. working with LAs, acting as consultant to SACREs, working with schools and government agencies such as QCDA, and DCSF on RE curriculum development. They also write and edit our own curriculum publications.
Rosemary Rivett, Director of Professional Services
Rosemary is Director of Professional Services and leads RE Today Services’ team of specialist RE advisers. She has written for and edited our best selling publication A Teacher’s Handbook of RE and the Developing Secondary RE series, and writes for our current primary and secondary curriculum series. She is project manager of our work with CfBT/DCSF to roll out the new secondary curriculum for RE, and supports the work of a local authority through SACRE consultancy and school-focused work. She has a particular interest and expertise in developing the use of ICT to support learning in RE.
Rosemary is also Executive Officer of NATRE and in this capacity represents our teacher members in a variety of national contexts. She is also a Director of the Council for Subject Associations, and a co-opted board member of the RE Council of England and Wales.
Before working for RE Today Rosemary taught in three local authorities, leading successful RE departments and taking responsibility for a variety of cross-curricular developments.
Email: rosemary@retoday.org.uk
Lat Blaylock
Lat is editor of REtoday magazine and has written many RE resources published by RE Today, including Picturing Easter, Tackling Tough Questions, Picturing Jesus and Spiritual Engagement, a folder of ideas for 16-19 RE days. He taught RE, Humanities and PSHE in Leicester for 11 years.
Since joining RE Today Services his work is wide-ranging and varied, and includes advising teachers, schools, SACREs, Dioceses and Local Authorities. His CPD training courses attract several thousand teachers every year, covering themes from poetry, art and creativity to assessment, 8 levels scaling and curriculum planning. He also runs day conferences for gifted and talented pupils and for 16-19s.
Email: lat@retoday.org.uk
Joyce Mackley
Joyce has wide-ranging experience of RE in all phases. She taught in three local authorities, leading successful RE departments before being seconded as Advisory Teacher for RE, and then joining RE Today Services as director of a curriculum development project supporting spiritual development.
As an RE Adviser Joyce provides training and consultancy (inter)nationally and supports the work of RE in two local authorities through SACRE consultancy and school-focused work. She wrote for and edited the highly acclaimed primary RE curriculum series Developing Primary RE and Exploring a Theme, and is currently the editor of the new series Opening Up RE. Her previous publications include A-Z Practical Learning Strategies.
Email: joyce@retoday.org.uk
Fiona Moss
Fiona is a primary specialist. She has been a primary teacher for many years and more recently the RE and SACRE Curriculum Adviser for a unitary authority in a plural context. She has overseen the development of its locally agreed syllabus and non-statutory guidance, as well as being involved in training teachers in its implementation. She has written and edited a variety of publications designed to support RE teachers, both locally to support an agreed syllabus and also for commercial publishers.
Fiona is also a long-standing and active member of NATRE, and is well-known in this context for her support of local groups of teachers, and her involvement in a variety of consultations and initiatives at a national level. She also worked for part of her time as a primary consultant specialising in SEAL, Literacy and Gifted and Talented.
Email: fiona@retoday.org.uk
Stephen Pett
As an RE Adviser Stephen provides training and consultancy internationally and supports the work of RE in two local authorities through SACRE consultancy and school-focused work. He writes for and edits RE Today Services’ RE curriculum series, Questions in RE, and contributes to a range of our other publications.
Before working for RE Today Services Stephen was a secondary Head of RE for many years, and an Advanced Skills Teacher. He was Chair of his local SACRE for nine years and actively participated in 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, active learning in A-level RS, developing ICT, particularly through video conferencing and innovative use of tablet PCs, and promoting spiritual development.
He has been involved in a project with Oxford University applying the findings of neuroscience to teaching and learning, and the link between RE and well-being is a continuing interest.
Email: stephen@retoday.org.uk
