Richard Kueh, Consultant Director of Education

RE Adviser team

RE Today’s team of RE specialist advisers undertake a wide variety of consultancy roles e.g. working with Local Authorities, Dioceses, SACREs, individual and groups of schools and academies, government agencies, professional associations and commercial organisations.

They also write and edit our owncurriculum publications, and wide selection of other titles including the best selling The Bible: The Big Story, Religious Education and British Values, Picturing Christianity and God and the Big Bang. Visit our online shop to view the full catalogue of publications available.

Locally agreed syllabus & scheme of work
RE Today work with a number of Local Authorities and SACREs in revising and producing their locally agreed syllabus for RE. Our Advisers have produced a complete scheme of work to go alongside our syllabuses. You canview the full list of units that are available here.

Find out more about them below:

Fiona Moss, National RE Adviser (Include picture)

Fiona is a primary specialist. Before joining RE Today as National RE Adviser she was a primary teacher for 15 years and then the RE and SACRE Curriculum Adviser for Leicester City. She also advised in other areas such as SEAL, Literacy and Gifted and Talented. She has written and edited a variety of publications designed to support primary RE teachers, including agreed syllabuses and curriculum resources.

She is currently the editor of RE Today’s Primary RE series Inspiring RE, edited RE Ideas, Opening up RE and has co-written Body & Soul, a relationship education resource for 9-11year olds and Share a Story with for 4-7 year olds. She was one of the writers on the Understanding Christianity resource.
She trains hundreds of teachers each year in schools and at local authority and dioceses events across the country and worldwide. Fiona is also the Executive Officer for NATRE, and is well-known in this context for her support of local groups of teachers, as well as and her involvement in RE at a national level, lobbying to the government to support RE.

Julia Diamond-Conway, National RE Adviser (include picture)

Julia is a primary specialists. Prior to joining RE Today in 2014, she was a primary teacher for 14 years. During this time she was an Advanced Skills Teacher for both RE and Behaviour for Learning which allowed her to work with a large number of colleagues and pupils from several schools within her local authority. Whilst working as a teacher, Julia helped to develop her Local Authority’s Agreed Syllabus for RE and resources to support this, alongside training teachers in its implementation.

Julia has written for many RE Today publications including the popular Understanding Christianity resource and trains teachers around the country. Her passion is promoting excellent RE for all. Julia has been a member of the NATRE executive committee and now works with them to support NATRE local groups. She has also been involved in the development of NATRE’s journal, Professional REflection. Alongside this Julia advises a SACRE in London and is always delighted to be involved in setting up Ambassadors of Faith and Belief schemes (AFABS).

Kate Christopher, National RE Adviser (Include picture)

Kate is a secondary specialist. Before joining RE Today as RE Adviser she was a classroom teacher of Secondary RE for 11 years in three very different schools, serving as Head of RE in two of the schools. She was part of a writing group contributing to the REC’s 2013 Curriculum Framework and was a member of the NATRE Executive for six years. She is currently working on her PhD in Philosophy of Education, exploring RE and issues of antiracism and multiculturalism.

Kate joined the RE Today team in 2014, as National RE Adviser. She has recently written and edited RE Today’s publication God and the Big Bang, as well as contributing to many other publications including the popular Understanding Christianity resource. Kate is also known for training teachers across the country.

Lat Blaylock, National RE Adviser (Include picture)

Lat is a primary and secondary specialist. He is editor of REtoday magazine and has written many RE resources published by RE Today, including Picturing Christianity, Big, Big Questions (a package for music in RE) and Spiritual Engagement (a folder of ideas for 16-19 RE days), as well as contributing to many resources such as Understanding Christianity. He taught RE, Humanities and PSHE in Leicester for eleven 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 thousands of teachers every year, covering themes from poetry, art and creativity to assessment, GCSE and curriculum planning. He also runs day conferences for gifted and talented pupils and for 16-19s. He has made 7 series of RE broadcasts with the BBC, including the award winning ‘My Life My Religion’ (2015) and recently has been involved in advising the BBC on the BBC Religions of the World series (2017). Lat was the specialist writer for the RE Council’s 2013 national RE curriculum framework.

Stephen Pett, National RE Adviser (Include picture)

Stephen is a primary and secondary specialist. Before joining RE Today Services Stephen was an RE subject leader for 14 years, seven of those as an Advanced Skills Teacher. As an AST he was part of a project with Oxford University applying the findings of neuroscience to education. This remains an interest as he seeks to apply research to the development of training and resources that support effective teaching and learning.

As an RE Adviser Stephen provides training and consultancy internationally. He is adviser to three local authorities, supporting the work of RE through SACRE consultancy and school-focused work. He is series editor for RE Today’s secondary curriculum books, as well as writing and editing other publications including Religious Education: The Teacher’s Guide; Talking Pictures and Share a story with… (for 4-7s); and The Bible: The Big Story. He is the led the development and is Editor of Understanding Christianity: Text Impact Connections, a major resource supporting teachers in primary and secondary classrooms.

If you would like to get in touch with any of our Advisers please email us at admin@retoday.org.uk and we will get one of our advisers to get back to you.