Religious Education Network
Working Together for Outstanding Religious Education
Religious Education Network
This is a new association, formed in 2023, following a series of meetings hosted by the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford.
For further information about joining this growing network, including subscription rates, please email [email protected].
Deep and meaningful? The Ofsted religious education subject report, April 2024
Religion and Worldviews. REALLY?
Do you know that the current extensive promotion of Religion and Worldviews by major resourcers and providers of RE has no Government support and it is not a part of Government policy?
The Department for Education does not advise schools on what the content of their RE curricula should be, nor does it endorse the National Content Standard and views it in the same way as any other curriculum-related document produced by a non-statutory body i.e. it is a view shared by some key RE stakeholders which schools may form their own opinions of, but the NCS requires no particular action by the DfE.
See the REN response to the National Content standard on the News and What’s On page, and Professor Keith Ward’s article.
Check the new list of upcoming events on the News and What’s On page
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RE Curriculum
Check the new RE Curriculum page for great examples of worked RE curricula which are exciting, innovative and demonstrate the best in successful, academically rigorous RE, and the development of a Theology, Philosophy, Religion and Ethics curriculum based on very...
Deep and meaningful? The Ofsted religious education subject report, April 2024
The Religious Education Network welcomes this Ofsted Report, and we hope that its Recommendations can now form the basis for positive action by Government ministers. Some 50 schools agreed to be surveyed from 2021 – 2023, half primary and half secondary (of which 15...
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Religion and Worldviews
Have you got your copy yet? If you are a thinking and reflective teacher of RE you need to read this book: Religion and Worldviews: The Triumph of the Secular in Religious Education