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Strictly RE 2021 – Dawn Cox

January 25, 2021January 26, 2021Oxford RE Team
Strictly RE

It’s hard to believe that it’s a year ago that RE teachers were gathered at a hotel in outer London for Strictly RE 2020. Little did we know how things would change for Strictly RE 2021. Everything has moved online and it’s already begun! This year, NATRE have thought carefully about how they can support […]

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Moving from GCSE to A level in Religious Studies

April 29, 2020April 29, 2020Oxford RE Team 1 Comment
Moving from GCSE to A Level Religious Studies

Libby Ahluwalia shares preparation strategies for students in lockdown who are moving from GCSE to A Level Religious Studies next term Coronavirus is presenting a lot of difficulties and uncertainties for everyone, including those of you who are moving on from Year 11 and planning to begin studying for A levels next term. Many of […]

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How Living Faiths supports non-specialists teaching RE, by Janet Dyson

November 27, 2018September 27, 2019Oxford RE Team
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For non-specialists teaching RE, there are a number of challenges, the greatest being how to cope with the extensive body of subject knowledge needed to teach and assess RE confidently and well. I’m the Series Editor on Living Faiths and set out to create a set of resources that would help meet some of the challenges outlined […]

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How to Encourage RE Students to Reflect, by Robert Bowie

November 27, 2018September 27, 2019Oxford RE Team
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In Religious Education, we look to encourage students to develop by giving them time to ask their own questions, and evaluate the different answers offered by faiths to the questions they are investigating. Tasks need to be challenging enough to get students thinking about the religious experiences and concepts they have learned. When you prepare […]

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What can we learn from the OCR A Level Religious Studies examiner reports?

November 20, 2018November 20, 2018Oxford RE Team

OCR have released their examiner reports into the first OCR A Level Religious Studies exams which took place in the summer. The reports overall have been really positive, with students performing well in the new exams. We have summarized the key issues that the examiners found students needed to improve, and gathered some free content […]

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How to Encourage and Track Student Progression in RE, by Robert Bowie

November 14, 2018September 27, 2019Oxford RE Team
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As an RE teacher trainer, I often visit schools and observe lessons, and what I find is that at the heart of all good learning is making sure that each lesson enables students to make progress. That progress is greatly improved when the lesson builds on what students already know, and when they have opportunities […]

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Bringing real people of faith into your classroom, by Julie Haigh

September 30, 2018September 30, 2019Oxford RE Team
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RE is a living subject; it lives in the people and concepts and practices that exist in this country and beyond, and in order for our students to fully engage in what RE is all about, they need to experience and understand RE as a ‘living thing’. Well, herein lies the problem. Many teachers are […]

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Teaching Religious Studies to those with Autism Spectrum Condition

September 19, 2018Oxford RE Team

by Ann Clucas How do you teach about the abstract and symbolic to those who may be most comfortable with the concrete and literal? How can you explain wildly varying opinions of what is true (and what truth itself means) to those who may struggle to see more than one point of view? Each person […]

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Using contact theory to promote better community relations in RE

September 19, 2018Oxford RE Team

by Rachael Jackson-Royal A team of Religious Education teachers, who are members of NATRE (National Association of Teachers of Religious Education), have combined forces with researchers at Bristol University to start work on a project to identify the best ways of promoting community relations in RE, with a particular focus on ‘contact theory’. This idea, […]

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