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BBC at Edge Hill
Two members of the production team from BBC Religion and Ethics, Nick Holden Sim and Charlotte Hindle, recently came and spoke to Undergraduate Secondary RE students at Edge Hill. The BBC is making a series of 10 minute films for the Learning Zone for use in KS4 RE classes. The films will follow a group of six…
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Back with a Boost
Term has started early at Edge Hill, with our annual Subject Knowledge Booster Course. This course was originally funded by the TDA to help those with non-Theology or Religious Studies degrees enter RE PGCE courses. We at Edge Hill found these courses to be so useful that we have continued them after the central funding…
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NATRE Network Day
The RE Team welcomed Stephen Pett and Fiona Moss from NATRE to Edge HIll for the Annual RE Network Conference. This year the Conference was generously supported by the Jerusalem Trust and drew together Undergraduate and Postgraduate students from Edge Hill as well as guests from Liverpool Hope’s RE PGCE. Around a dozen of our…
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New Draft RE Curriculum
The RE Council have been working this year to produce a new framework document for RE, in the light of the DFE’s production of curricula for other subjects. Following the publication of the Draft Programmes of Study for RE interested parties are invited to take part in a final round of consultation – as explained…
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Holi Festival of Colour comes to Edge Hill
MAY 9, 2013 Schoolchildren helped Edge Hill University recreate the Holi Festival of Colour to highlight why it’s important to keep Religious Education on the national curriculum. For the first time in the north-west, replicating India’s popular springtime religious celebration, students, staff and pupils from Nutgrove Methodist Primary in St Helens took part in throwing…
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Kulsum
Kulsum completed her BA(hons) with QTS in 2013. She is now working as a Teacher of RE, along with other Humanities subjects at an Academy in Bolton.
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Holocaust Remembered
Dr Mayer Hersch MBE paid his annual visit to Edge Hill University to tell gathered RE and History ITE students together with pupils from a number of parternship schools the story of his survival during the darkest days of the Nazi regime. Mayer was only 13 when the Nazis invaded his homeland Poland and his…
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AfL & Co-operative Learning
Final Year Undergradaute students were delighted to spend the day in one of our Partnership Schools, Our Lady’s RC High School in Blackley, Manchester, where they were able to draw upon the expertise of the Professional and Curriculum Mentors in the areas of Assessment for Learning and Co-operative groupwork. The school is situated in a…
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A Day in the Theatre of Learning
Sue Phillips visited Edge Hill university to invite PGCE and Final Year KS2/3 Undergrauate students to spend a day in the Theatre of Learning. Sue has pioneered this exciting and experiential form of RE over the past few years and was delighted to share her pedagogy with the students. Students were shown the famous ‘Island’,…
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Sikh-ing Understanding
Year 3 RE Undergraduates visited the Gurdwara Sri Harkishan Sahib Ji in Manchester to hear about Sikh beliefs and history and experience Langar. On a cold morning we entered the gurdwara, removed our shoes and covered our heads. ‘Abs’ a young member of the congregation gave us a talk outlining many elements of Sikhism and answered many…
