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Graduation Time Again
The sun shone brightly on our PGCE RE Class of 2014 and our final cohort of Key Stage 2/3 RE Undergraduates. The year has been a hugely successful one for RE at Edge Hill. All of our Undergraduates were in employment by the time of graduation (a first) and only a few PGCE students were…
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One Last Trip
Final Year Undergraduates completed their visits to places of worship with a trip to the Guru Sri Harkrishan Sahib Ji Gurdwara in Manchester. As always our hosts were excellent, explaining the tenets of their faith and dealing with students’ questions before offering us a generous Langar. Pictures from the day are on flickr and below.
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Real Life Islam
Two former PGCE students, now serving teachers, returned to Edge Hill to talk about life as a Muslim in 21st Century England. Sabrina Hussain completed her PGCE RE in 2008 and teaches RE at Oasis Academy in Oldham. Arsalan Aslam completed his PGCE RE in 2009 and now leads the teaching of RE at Al…
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Mayer Visits Edge Hill Again
Once again this year we were delighted to Welcome Holocaust Survivor Mayer to speak to our Final Year Undergraduate and Postgraduate students and invited pupils from a number of Partnership schools. Mayer’s story beginning with the outbreak of war on his 13th birthday is both harrowing and moving. Mayer seems to get more frail each…
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Best CPD Ever
The NATRE North West Network saw over 50 trainee teachers from Edge Hill, Hope and MMU and around a dozen serving RE teachers from our Partnership had an excellent day’s CPD with Stephen Pett from NATRE. It was the last day at University for our Final Year Undergraduates and PGCE students at Edge Hill came…
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Post 16 Preparation
Final Year Undergraduates spent a morning at Deanery Church of England High School Sixth Form College to learn about the teaching of RE Post 16, and specifically A level RE. Sarah Daley, Assistant Head of RE at the school told us about the Art of teaching A Level, using some recent examples from her teaching,…
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An Islamic Day in Preston
Year 1 and Year 3 undergraduates enjoyed spending a day in the Islamic community in Preston as part of their Module on Islam. We were able to once again benefit from the hospitality and wisdom of Waqaus Ali ot ThinkBrite. The day began with an introduction and then a brief visit to see some of…
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FA Primary PE Teachers’ Award
We are proud that the KS2/3 Course was able to pilot this brand new Award for PE teachers from the FA. Over 40 trainees from a variety of subject specialisms were able to become the first Primary teachers in the North-West to complete this award. The aim of the course is to enable all primary…
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Hello from Helen
The new National Curriculum is to be implemented in Local Authority schools from September 2014. In order to prepare our students for this, Edge Hill recently held a Curriculum 2014 day conference. Of course RE is not part of the new (or old) National Curriculum, but it locally determined. However the RE Council has produced…
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Sufism: more than shariat
As part of their Islam module, Year 1 and Year 3 undergraduates were visited by former student Kulsum Issa and Yunus Chasma in order to educate us about the spiritual movement of Sufism. Yunus explained the beliefs that Sufis have and the origins of the movement. In many ways Sufism is like Islam taken to…
