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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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Dynamic Partnerships
Inspiration and professional messages from Stretford High You don’t need me to tell you that training as a secondary teacher is a daunting process, so it makes it all the more important that our trainees hear from recently qualified successful practitioners who are making an impact. We’ve enjoyed a strong partnership with Stretford High school…
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‘Crime and Punishment’ : Ribblesdale High School Gifted and Talented Study Day
‘People should take illegal drugs if they want to’ ‘Reformation is the most important aim of punishment’ Controversial and contentious statements, not the easiest assertions to evaluate and guaranteed to provoke argument and debate! In fact, debate, discussion and heated argument was our aim, as twenty year 10 GCSE high flyers and their teacher, CM,…
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Subject Knowledge Enrichment- exploring faith in Manchester
Experiential learning through visits to faith communities continues to be an integral feature of the course, not least because we hope our trainees will develop their own RE network from the experiences. We are fortunate to have such a rich and culturally diverse resources with so many faith communities in our region. In December we…
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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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Love, Love, Love.
Yunus Chasma came to Edge Hill University to talk to Year 3 students about Sufism as both a journey and a destination. He said that Sufism is ‘independent of any other religion’ and is a way of living and being. Students were introduced to the idea of Allah as the Beloved, and learnt about a…
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Technology Enhanced RE
Paul Hopkins spent a day with Year 3 RE Undergraduates to outline how new technologies can improve teaching and learning and how assessment can be made easier with IT. Paul pioneered the use of ICT in the RE classroom and has widely lectured both nationally and internationally on the use of ICT, e-learning and pedagogic…
