Religion

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

GCSE RS: Responding to new challenges

Knowing Religion is a new series of nine Key Stage 3 RE textbooks. In this blog, we discuss the books with Series Editor and author of Islam, Christianity and Biblical Literacy, Robert Orme. The new GCSE RS specifications first examined in 2018 offer teachers an exciting opportunity to… 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

The Traditions of Easter

We all know about Christmas and its origins and have had the Christmas story read to us dozens of times and the same could be said of the Easter story too but do we really know all about the traditions of Easter? Activity One – When is Easter? Suitable for… Read More

Secondary Sociology – The weird and the wonderful!

My main subject specialism is RE, and so in my second year of teaching when offered KS3 Geography or A2 Sociology of Religion I jumped at the chance to explore ‘religion’ with the students from an angle other than Philosophy of Religion and Ethics! Our A2 sociologists are usually pretty… Read More