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RE PGCE Judaism & Islam subject knowledge development 8.3.19
As part of their subject knowledge development, RE PG trainees partook in a subject knowledge development day, focusing on Islamic and Jewish teachings. Before the sessions, they completed subject knowledge audits of both topics (using a GCSE specification) which enabled the sessions to target specifically those areas which they have identified as in need of…
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RE PGCE & UG: Sue Philips ‘The Island’ 1.3.19
Sue Philips brought ‘The Island’ to the PGCE and UG trainees in an interactive session on experiential RE. Sue demonstrated with them how to lead ‘religion neutral exercises’, engage pupils in values and empathy and the power of pupils being able to ‘see’ and ‘hear’ in their learning. They all enjoyed getting in to the…
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GCSE Expertise
Year 3 undergraduates visited Lowton CE High school to spend a day looking at teaching GCSE. Having battled through the traffic, we were met by Heather Clare, a very experienced RE teacher and Senior Teacher at the school. Our first task was to look at the Specification (From AQA) and decide what religions and themes…
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‘Relationships for Learning’
To support the Reflective Professional Practice lecture, RE PGCE trainees were able to benefit from the expertise of Dr Chris Greenough who, prior to joining Edge Hill, was SLT lead for behaviour, pastoral and ITT in his previous role. He was able to share his own experiences about the importance of ‘relationships for learning’ and…
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Pedagogy in Practice
To help support their development as RE academics and written assignments, trainees were treated to a session by Dr Francis Farrell (previous RE Course Leader) unpicking some of the pedagogical theory which underpins Outstanding RE. After some much needed experiential stilling and silent meditation, trainees considered the use of video clips to explore a phenomenological…
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Teaching and Learning Showcase
Trainees on the PGCE took the opportunity to share some good practice and celebrate their successful T&L strategies with the group as they approach the end of their first placement. Whilst Andy subjected us all to his pie-puns to discuss a numeracy strategy, Becky presented an ‘FBI: Confidential’ task for investigating the miracles of Jesus,…
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Teaching GCSE RE
One of our fantastic Curriculum Mentors (and Ex-Edge Hill alumni!), Ruth Taylor from Burnley Hugh School, delivered an effective and engaging session for PGCE students on teaching GCSE RS. Using her own experiences of delivering the new Edxcel RS curriculum, Ruth was able to give practical strategies on differentiating, planning and assessment in GCSE RS.…
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GCSE in Lowton
Undergraduate QTS Third Year students spent an amazing day at Lowton CE High School to find out about teaching the new GCSE RE specifications. We bgan by looking at the AQA – two papers Religions and themes. Tried to choose what religions and themes Then attempted a curriculum map: what is best to do Religions…
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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…
