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An Inclusive Education
Year One Undergraduates were able to spend a morning in one of our Partnership High schools to begin to see how the school makes sure that all pupils make progress. The morning at Lathom High School began with Trevor Hodson, Assistant Headteacher for teaching and learning, describing how RE had moved away from its former…
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Two Faces of Buddhism
Year 2 Undergraduates have been out to visit two different communities of Western Buddhists. The first visit was to the Manchester Buddhist Centre where Munisha explained Buddhism from a Triratna perspective. Formerly known as the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, the group see themselves as reinterpreting Buddhism for modern Western Buddhists The second visit…
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Raga and Puja in Bradford
Our subject knowledge trip to places of worship in Bradford is now becoming an annual feature of the RE PGCE giving trainees an invaluable insight into the dharmic traditions within our communities through experiential learning. This year was no exception and we were warmly welcomed by our colleagues in the Hindu and the Sikh communities.…
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HMI at RE Subject Network
Around 20 Secondary RE teachers were able to attend the recent RE Subject Network Meeting at Edge Hill. We are fortunate to welcome Alan Brine, HMI for RE, who talked us through the findings of the latest Ofsted Report into RE RE: Realising The Potential. This is a key report for RE and comes at a very important…
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Free School Visit
Year 1 students recently visited a very unusual school to stimulate their thoughts about the purpose of education. The Maharishi Free School in Skelmersdale was formerly an independent school before transferring into the state sector to become a free school. The school has a very distinctive educational philosophy – developed out of the teachings of…
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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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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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Beyond the Worksheet
Part Time primary trainees from Edge Hill recently explored creative learning in the gallery, using the cultures gallery in the World Museum Liverpool. They took part in a Hindu and Buddhist story telling workshop and used the artefacts as a stimulus to create their own interpretations. In groups they re-enacted and the devices that support…
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Edge Hill discusses primary RE
Edge Hill’s primary RE subject leader, Maggie Webster, takes part in a round table discussion about faith schools in the latest issue of Educate! magazine. You can read it here: Primary RE
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Awesome and Intimate- PGCE trainees visit the Great Space
RE PGCE trainees were over awed by the magnificent splendour of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral during a visit on Friday 20th September. Once again we were hosted by our superb tour guide Helen, a former secondary school teacher and a fount of knowledge. Helen explored the deep symbolism and religious significance of the Cathedral and its…
