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BA (Hons) Education & Religion – The Island
Today we started teaching on our new BA (Hons) Education and Religion! Using Sue Philips’ ‘Theatre of Learning’, the group experienced being stranded on a desert island after a plane crash (inspired by Lost!) and had to work in their tribes to consider and create rites of passage, sacred places, sacred texts and guidelines to…
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The Theatre of Learning
Hollie wrote this about the recent visit of Sue Phillips to Edge Hill, where she worked with Undergraduate and Postgraduate students: My biggest fear in the classroom is having a class full of pupils and they do not listen to me. I fear they will not be engaged in the lesson I am teaching them, that…
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Three Days in the Theatre of Learning
Having spent two days with us last year, an old friend of Edge Hill, Sue Phillips, spent three days with us to showcase her approach to experiential learning: one day with secondary Undergraduates, one day with PGCE and one day with Primary students. Sue has developed the ‘Theatre of Learning’ pedagogy. This began with an…
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“An Enlightening Trip”, or how to live a happy, fulfilling, meaningful life
RE PGCE Trainee Marianne Howe reports back on her groups experiences at the Triratna Buddhist centre in Manchester: On the 16th of October, the secondary RE PGCE group was given the opportunity to visit Manchester Buddhist centre. The day began at University with a Buddhist subject knowledge enhancement course led by our course leader Francis…
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Two days on ‘The Island’
Sue Phillips once again visited Edge Hill to show us how to teach RE using the ‘Theatre of Learning’ pedagogy which she has developed. This year Sue was able to send two days with us, spending a day with PGCE students and a day with final year Undergraduates. Both days followed a similar format, beginning…
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Spiritual Development
Developing pupils’ spiritual literacy is key to outstanding RE teaching. “The school’s thoughtful and wide-ranging promotion of pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and their physical wellbeing enables them to thrive in a supportive, highly cohesive learning community.” Ofsted: Descriptor of outstanding overall effectiveness (January 2014) Year 2 Undergraduate students spent a morning with…
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If you go down to the woods today…
As part of the launch of the PGCE Primary programme, the trainees took part in workshops that gave them a taster of creative ways to teach the foundation subjects. A group of 60 students took part in exploring Sacred Spaces by considering the work of Eliade (1987) and Turkle (2011) where objects become evocative or…
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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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Islam and Spirituality at the Network Meeting
Almost a dozen Mentors, Lecturers and consultants were able to attend the RE Subject Network’s recent twilight session held at Byrchall High School. We were privileged to have the input of Emma Mcvittie who explained how her ME! resource was helping pupils develop spiritual literacy in both primary and secondary settings nationwide. This was followed by a general discussion…
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Year 2 Undergraduates get Spiritual
Year 2 Undergraduates welcomed Emma McVittie to Edge Hill to lead a session on planning for Spiritual Development. Emma is an independent RE Consultant and the Primary Leader for REonline. Her passion for improving educational standards led her to become a teacher educator, advisor and speaker where she enjoys having a larger influence in educating…
