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Religious Education From Excellence and Enjoyment to the Rose and Cambridge Reviews

In 2003 Charles Clark wrote the Foreward to "Excellence and Enjoyment A Strategy for Primary Schools". In 2008 Ed Balls wrote a letter of remit to initiate an Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum by Sir Jim Rose. The Executive Summaries of both focus on the key role of Primary Education in developing a love of learning and promoting personal development. Rosemary Walters offers...

25.06.09

Religious Education and Community Cohesion

A web-based resource for tutors, trainees and students looking to improve their knowledge and understanding of the contribution RE can make to the social and community cohesion agenda.

27.03.08

Euthanasia - Buddhist Approaches

Euthanasia is a topic common to many RS GCSE specifications. In this short article a Buddhist approach is laid out in a way that will provide support for those training to the teach the subject or those already working with pupils on it.

22.11.07

Teaching RE with and through ICT, with a focus on Sikhism

This pack will provide an introduction to the important aspects of tutoring RE students teachers in the use of ICT to support RE teaching and learning with a specific subject focus on teaching and learning about Sikhism with learning technologies. It will note recent progress and issues identified by HMI related to RE and ICT government initiatives, draw on what published writing there is on this...

12.12.06

Judaism - What is a Synagogue?

Synagogues originally began as an assembly place, a sort of community centre for Jews to gather.

08.12.06

Judaism - Sabbath Worship

In Orthodox Synagogues the Friday evening service is attended by men and boys, while the women prepare to welcome the Shabbat into the home.

06.12.06

Hinduism and Cross Curricular Work

A Subject Induction Pack written by Lynn Revell which addresses issues in cross curricular working in RE. Using Hinduism as a global phenomenon Revell illustrates how links can be made to other parts of the curriculum using specifically religious content.

01.12.06

Life, Learning and Enlightenment

A Subject Induction Pack by Rosemary Walters which examines the concept of lifelong learning within the context of Religious Education's second attainment target 'learning from religion'.

01.12.06

Judaism - What is The Shema?

The Shema is the first prayer a Jewish child learns.

01.12.06

Judaism - Marriage, The Ceremony and Celebration

Marriage is the most important point in a Jew's life.

22.11.06

Judaism - Bar Mitzvah

When a boy is thirteen he must go to the synagogue and accept in front of the whole community full responsibility for his religious life and is no loner regarded as a child but an adult.

22.11.06

Judaism - Brit milah (Circumcision)

Brit Milah is the Covenant of Circumcision, a practice that is thousands of years old...

22.11.06

Judaism - Daily Prayer - Siddur and Tefillin

The Siddur is the daily prayer book which has all the prayers laid down in the order that they are said in the synagogue throughout the year.

22.11.06

The Last Week - Jesus Enters Jerusalem

Palm Sunday recalls the day when Jesus was welcomed into Jerusalem riding on a donkey...

15.11.06

Picking Corn on the Sabbath

1. Introduction 2. Law and the Sabbath 3. Jesus and the Pharisees 4. Questions on Picking Corn on the Sabbath

08.11.06

Judaism - Introducing the Jewish Faith

... In this introduction you will find a starting point for trying to understand the views, practices and beliefs expressed by Jews...

19.10.06

Judaism - Yom Kippur

10 days after New Year is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (see Leviticus 23:27).

18.10.06

Re-Net - Site Contents

A launching point to all Research articles, background materials and Resources found on Re-Net.

18.10.06

Buddhism - Milarepa

The story of Milarepa stretches from a person who is initially a murderer to the extreme of an enlightened being in one life.

13.10.06

Buddhism - Meditation

Meditation is one of the main practices in Buddhism. This outlines what meditatiion is and what it is not.

12.10.06