What Happens in – Primary (24/02/2026)

Description

Audience: All those involved in teaching RE in primary mainstream and SEND schools

Age range: 4-11

Course Area: Curriculum design: High quality practice, Assessment

Area of Focus: Pedagogy and practice

Online course details:

• Date:Tuesday 24 February 2026
• Time:1 PM – 3.30 PM (Half-day course)
• Area of focus:Teaching and learning
• Trainers:National RE Adviser – Julia Diamond-Conway
• School Phase:Primary (4-11s)
• SPECIAL OFFER ALERT: RRP £120 this course is on for a special offer £90!*

NATRE member discounts
*can’t be used in conjunction with any other discount.

Course features:

What Happens In? is one of the bestselling resources provided by RE Today. It uses cut aways of places of worship from Buddhism, Christianity, Hindu Dharma, Islam, Judaism and Sikhi to deepen and extend pupil learning about the core concepts in these religions. This course will help you develop teaching and learning and assessment activities to make best use of this in the classroom.

• To be able to analyse and interpret the cutaway drawings, identifying physical features, religious practices and vocabulary.

• To design engaging classroom activities based on the resource, developing pupils’ substantive knowledge and adapted for different ages and varied learner needs.

• To facilitate pupils’ deeper thinking about the significance of practices demonstrated in places of worship.

Benefits of attending – Delegates :

• Confidence in teaching RE and using the What Happens In…? resource to develop pupils’ knowledge about places of worship.

• Adaptable, ready-to-use ideas which can be tailored to your own scheme of learning.

• Activities to extend assessment of a deepening understanding of substantive knowledge beyond written work.

• Activities to develop oracy as an effective tool in the teaching of high-quality RE.

• Improved subject knowledge of key features, practices and vocabulary linked to different places of worship.

• Opportunities for professional reflection and collaboration.

Benefits of attending – For the school:

• A resource and training on its implementation that can enhance learning and assessment in RE across the whole school.

• Improved curriculum coherence in pupils’ knowledge about places of worship and associated concepts.

• Engaging activities for all pupils, linked to all agreed syllabuses and diocesan requirements.

• Greater staff confidence and subject knowledge.

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