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REC Newsletter December 2009

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REEP: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME

 

To coincide with National Poetry Day, REEP has successfully launched an exciting new awards scheme for schools, to design a poetry pamphlet. The brand new website, www.reepawards.org   explains more about the awards, the theme and how to enter.  An ideas section containing curriculum resources will be launched later this month.   Many have asked whether REEP is continuing its Schools Garden Awards.  When the Awards were first started, there was less interest in school gardens and very few awards.  Now, happily, school gardens have really become popular, so REEP has decided to move on and take an innovative step into another area. The Awards for 2009-10 will therefore be for poetry pamphlets, on the subject of 'Rivers'.  The main REEP website continues to operate at www.reep.org 

 

Polly Challis

 

 

EFTRE (EUROPEAN FORUM FOR TEACHERS OF RE) CONFERENCE FOR 2010

 

This exciting opportunity to enter into dialogue with colleagues from around the continent is being held in Bruges, Belgium August 25th to 28th, 2010. See www.eftre.net for more details.

 

JWOLE LITE

 

Following from the ongoing success of their Jewish Way of Life Exhibition, the Board of Deputies of British Jews has produced a set of 8 educational posters covering topics such as Keeping Kosher, Shabbat, The Shema, Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur, Chanukah & Purim, Pesach, Sukkot & Shavuot, the Life Cycle and Jewish Values.  Posters are brightly coloured, A1 size, laminated and are delivered rolled into a tube.  A full set of posters including delivery costs £25.  For more information, to see a sample set or to place an order, please contact Hannah Ashleigh on 020 7543 5400 or email

 

TONY BLAIR FAITH FOUNDATION – EDUCATION MANAGER (UNIVERSITIES) POST

 

The TBFF has advertised this post which will primarily involve developing a strong international network of high calibre universities committed to generating and sharing new thinking and practice around the role of faith in a globalised world.  Applicants should have a strong theological understanding that will enable them to make a valuable contribution to the development of Faith & Globalisation courses in universities around the world. They will also have outstanding project management skills which they are able to deploy within and outside of an academic setting, an interest in a wide range of policy and faith-related issues, and be committed to the goals of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. For further details see www.tonyblairfaithfoundation.org/pages/recruitment To apply, please submit a CV and covering letter to Alison Duncan, Tony Blair Faith Foundation at by 12 noon GMT on Friday December 11th 2009. Interviews will be held in January 2010.

 

 

CLEAR VISION TRUST RESOURCE FOR RE

 

Us and Them is a new online interactive resource for 12-16 year-olds, from the Buddhists at The Clear Vision Trust (www.clear-vision.org). It is due for release in January 2010.
Us and Them links Buddhist teachings with community cohesion and aspects of citizenship, particularly featuring young Buddhists in the UK and Bhutan. Please write to    if you'd like us to email you when it's ready.

 

Munisha, Director, Clear Vision

 

 

NEW RESOURCE FROM THE STAPLEFORD CENTRE

 

Someone like Sam uses a story about a girl and her unique relationship with her Godmother to explore issues of identity, strength, relationships and love. Lesson material is aimed at the stages in primary education when pupils experience change and need the support of others around them. Beautifully illustrated with card and electronic resources. Available from www.stapleford-centre.org 

 

 

HINDU COUNCIL UK NEWS ITEM

  

HCUK continues to offer Hindu input on PGCE courses at many universities. In recent weeks sessions were held for University College of St John & St Mark Plymouth; Exeter University & Mary Vale Institute of Catholic Studies, Birmingham. These sessions are well received. HCUK also sent a participant to the Faith School discussion at St George's House Windsor and at the Interfaith event at Imperial College called Unifaith, Christian Premier Radio held a debate on interfaith evangelism. The debate can be accessed at

 http://www.premierradio.org.uk/listen/ondemand.aspx?mediaid={F15526BB-71B8-4A38-9B88-6B9005F60490}

 

EVERYONE MATTERS IN THE CLASSROOM. A PRACTICE CODE FOR TEACHERS OF RE

 

This code aims to complement the GTCE’s general code for teachers. When that code was being drawn up, there was some concern about the implications of ‘demonstrating respect for diversity and promoting equality’ and whether that principle might ever come into conflict with a teacher’s sense of integrity in relation to his or her own beliefs. This voluntary code for teachers of RE is designed to help reassure teachers of RE themselves as well as pupils, parents and colleagues that a professional approach to such issues can and will be observed. It has been drawn up by an REC group following consultation with teachers, advisers and faith and belief community members. The code can be downloaded from the REC website at www.religiouseducationcouncil.org

 

TRIP TO ISRAEL

 

Jane Chipperton (RE Adviser, St Albans Diocese and vice chair of AREIAC) is organising a trip to the Holy Land 13th-21st Feb, 2010 for teachers and advisers. Contact Jane for more details at 

 

 

QCDA UPDATE

 

The latest update from the newly named Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA, formerly QCA) for Autumn 2009 can be found on the NASACRE website at www.nasacre.org   This includes contact details for Mark Chater who is now based in Coventry, where the QCDA has moved to from London.

 

 

RESILIENCE

 

The DCSF is funding the REsilience project to make available professional development on teaching about controversial issues including violent extremism justified with reference to religion. This programme for secondary teachers of RE has been moving along according to plan and has now entered the development phase. One of the main tasks during this phase is to firm up the shape and content for the CPD programme, and clarify the resource requirements. The project is growing, in terms of personnel, and at the beginning of November four mentor consultants were appointed to assist with this work and to have a key role in the development and recruitment of the mentor role. A more detailed update can be found on the REC website www.religiouseducationcouncil.org

 

CELEBRATING  RE

 

Plans are rapidly moving ahead for a bi-national celebration of RE in England and Wales throughout the month of March 2011. A subcommittee of the REC, chaired by Denise Chaplin, is working on plans to involve pupils, staff, governors and parents in schools alongside SACREs, faith and belief communities, politicians and members of the public in a month to celebrate RE as a subject of inspiration, challenge, debate, engagement, community spirit, empathy and much more besides. All involved in RE are invited to plan events, make links with other organisations or groups, contribute to fundraising and publicise this opportunity to raise awareness of the value of religious education as a subject whose time has come. RE Celebration will have its own website in the New Year; until then there will be information and updates on the REC website at www.religiouseducationcouncil.org

 

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