Secondary Religious Studies

Knowing Religion: Why study Christianity?

Knowing Religion is a new series of nine Key Stage 3 RE textbooks. ‘Christianity’ is published as part of the KS3 Knowing Religion series. In this blog, we discuss the Christianity textbook with Series Editor and author of Islam, Christianity and Biblical Literacy, Robert Orme. There is no shortage… Read More

Preparing for GCSE RS? Learn about the Bible

Knowing Religion is a new series of nine Key Stage 3 RE textbooks out this month. In this blog, we discuss the books with Series Editor and author of Islam, Christianity and Biblical Literacy, Robert Orme. Towards the end of my first year of teaching, as my Year 11… Read More

Why Knowing Religion?

Knowing Religion is a new series of nine Key Stage 3 RE textbooks out this month. In this blog, we discuss the books with Series Editor and author of Islam, Christianity and Biblical Literacy, Robert Orme. Read More

Secondary RE, PSHE and Citizenship – True Tube

How long have we accumulatively spent searching through the reams of videos that have been uploaded to You Tube in the hopes of finding a video clip to help our students to explore big social or global issues such as war or the environment and how useful would it be… Read More

All Secondary – The Real Meaning of Christmas

So, Christmas is fast approaching and all the students want to do is watch a video or make Christmas cards, and frankly, you’re tempted to give in as it you’ve worked ridiculously hard and your thoughts are now turned towards your own lie-ins and recuperation… but what if you could… Read More

Secondary RE – How to Debate and Evaluate

Active Learning Strategies for Debating and Evaluating I want to encourage my students to consider different opinions and views towards a social or moral issue, but I also want them to start developing evaluation skills too. At KS4, students must demonstrate the ability to evaluate which is more than just… Read More

Secondary RE – Introducing Spirituality

Spirituality can be difficult to define and explain, so where can you start when trying to introduce the topic in a meaningful way to a class of 13 year olds? An approach that has been successful for the students I teach is one that encourages students to reflect upon the… Read More