Religious Education Network

Working Together for Outstanding Religious Education

The Religious Education Network Conference 2024 Saturday 23rd November 2024

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: SATURDAY 9th NOVEMBER
The dynamic and exciting inaugural conference is a must for thinking educators!

Keynote speakers

Sir Anthony Seldon AI and the Future of Education
Msgr Dr Michael Nazir-Ali The Role of Religion in Modern Society
Dr Richard Kueh Knowledge-rich RE [by video link]

There is a choice from NINE workshops covering these topics:

  • Leading a successful RE department
  • Teaching Islam
  • Theology, Philosophy & Religion curriculum
  • What’s wrong with ‘worldviews’
  • Constructing an Outstanding Agreed Syllabus
  • Teaching Hinduism
  • A Catholic Education
  • Understanding Islam in the Classroom
  • The Disciplines of RE Learning

All at The Broadway Academy, The Broadway, Perry Barr, Birmingham, B20 3DP, refreshments 10am, conference starts at 10.30am and concludes at 4pm, lunch provided.

REN Conference 2024: A Feast of Faith

Put this date in your diaries: Saturday 23rd November 2024

The REN is delighted to announce its inaugural conference, with high-profile keynote speakers, led by Sir Anthony Seldon, themed on AI and the future of education, and the place of faith literacy in future schooling.

Join in with your choices from eight interactive workshops on all aspects of RE teaching including the launch of the draft of the new Theology, Philosophy and Religion curriculum, visit displays and enjoy networking and sharing opportunities. The venue is The Broadway Academy, The Broadway, Perry Barr, Birmingham, B20 3DP. The Broadway Academy is rated ‘good’ in all categories by Ofsted and provides excellent facilities for our conference.

Full details will appear very soon on this website and for our mailing list of members.

Applications may be made via: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxIX_G7V_G2vBnWaypyXFwUgEBQg88X7Tjiel5G28rnZLXog/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0&usp=mail_form_link

Deep and meaningful? The Ofsted religious education subject report, April 2024

The Religious Education Network welcomes this Ofsted Report, and we hope that its Recommendations can now form the basis for positive action by Government ministers. Some 50 schools agreed to be surveyed from 2021 – 2023, half primary and half secondary (of which 15 had sixth forms). This might be considered unrepresentative granted the 25,000+ schools and colleges in the country, but readers will find the Report’s conclusions do reflect the wider picture well.

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Religion and Worldviews. REALLY?

Do you know that the current extensive promotion of Religion and Worldviews by major resourcers and providers of RE has no Government support and it is not a part of Government policy?

The Department for Education does not advise schools on what the content of their RE curricula should be, nor does it endorse the National Content Standard and views it in the same way as any other curriculum-related document produced by a non-statutory body i.e. it is a view shared by some key RE stakeholders which schools may form their own opinions of, but the NCS requires no particular action by the DfE.

See the REN response to the National Content standard on the News and What’s On page, and Professor Keith Ward’s article.

Check the new list of upcoming events on the News and What’s On page

Latest news

Personal Knowldeged analysed

Richard Coupe gave this talk at the June conference of the Association of University Lecturers in RE and the Assocaition of RE Inspectors, Advisors and Consultants

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Religion and Worldviews

Have you got your copy yet? If you are a thinking and reflective teacher of RE you need to read this book: Religion and Worldviews: The Triumph of the Secular in Religious Education

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