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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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