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Conversations about religious literacy: creativity and the classroom

26/11/2020

The Lincoln Diocesan Board of Education (LDBE) is curating and working with the support of Culham St Gabriel's to deliver a national arts and RE symposium to be held virtually on the 23 February 2021.

Teacher survey on black history and diversity in the curriculum.

25/11/2020

The Petitions Committee held an oral evidence session on 18 November and have launched two surveys; one for primary and one for secondary teachers. The survey will close at 9am on Monday 7 December.

1000 articles at from REtoday at your fingertips

10/11/2020

We are excited to announce that we have launched a brand new website to give teachers access to over 1000 articles from REtoday magazine online.

Teaching Islam: Challenging prejudices

05/11/2020

How can we teach about Islam more authentically in RE lessons? Ahead of Interfaith Week – November 8 to 15 – Lat Blaylock, co-author of a new resource, considers the duty of education to tackle stereotypes and challenge prejudices. Written by Lat Blaylock featured on SecEd

New anti-racist Religious Education resource for teachers

05/11/2020

A new suite of free teaching materials to help teachers of Religious Education plan and provide learning around racism and prejudice has been launched by RE Today and the National Association of Teachers of RE (NATRE). The project was initiated by the Free Churches Group and Methodist Schools and funded by the Westhill Endowment.

Think Tank Theos launch report online

26/10/2020

An important report was launched at an online event hosted by the think tank Theos. The three report authors; Professors Trevor Cooling and Bob Bowie, and Dr Farid Panjwani explained the argument of their new report.

Shadow Minister for Faiths; Janet Daby MP asks the Minister for Education Nick Gibb MP a question about RE

14/10/2020

NATRE, the REC and RE Today had a very productive meeting with the Janet Daby MP in October 2020. They learned that the Shadow Minister, who is the MP for Lewisham East, had served on Lewisham SACRE and was fully conversant with the issues surrounding the subject.

Removal of the bursary for those training to be secondary teachers of RE

14/10/2020

NATRE was very disappointed to read that bursaries for teacher training are to be severely cut for 2021-2022.