Welcome to the site for Religious
Education
I hope this site will provide effective support for all teachers
of RE in Lincolnshire. I have been working with schools in
Lincolnshire since September 2007 and providing SACRE with an
overview of what is going on in RE. The site will provide the
opportunity to maintain links with the schools I have visited but
also make contact with those of you I haven’t met. I will be
providing regular local and national updates, news from the
Lincolnshire SACRE, information about the latest resources and an
‘RE in the news’ section. There will also be an area where teachers
can share ideas and good practice and a virtual network group. If
you have any suggestions about what you would like to see included
on the site, or just want to discuss anything to do with RE, my
contact details are:
Email: wendyanneh@aol.com
Wendy Harrison : RE
Adviser
Phone: 01455 272979
Mobile: 07872017318
Wendy Harrison
| Wendy has had many years’ of teaching experience in
different parts of the country, in inner city and rural settings.
She moved into advisory and inspection work in 1995, working in the
London Borough of Waltham Forest and for Leicestershire as Link
Adviser and Adviser for Humanities and RE. As a trained primary and
secondary inspector for Ofsted she has carried out numerous
inspections and school reviews. Her subject specialism is religious
education, along with the related areas of spiritual, moral, social
and cultural development. She has assisted many schools in the
writing of RE policies and schemes of work and has worked with
three SACREs to produce locally Agreed Syllabuses for RE. Her other
areas of interest include philosophy for children (P4C) and broader
issues relating to inclusion and community cohesion. She has been
involved in policy making at LA level in the areas of race
equality, sex education and Tracking Children Out of School/Looked
After Children. At present she works as an independent consultant
for CfBT in Lincolnshire, acting as Adviser to SACRE. This role
also involves visiting schools to monitor the quality of RE as well
as offering training and support. |
Circular 1/94 - Good News, this out of date guidance is being
reviewed and is soon to be replaced, though no date has been given
as yet. The review will concentrate on RE and guidance on acts of
collective workship will follow later.
Pedagogy in RE - This year This year QCA will work with Ofsted
and other bodies to focus on pedagogical issues in RE. The material
for this debate comes from several sources: the Ofsted report
(Making Sense of Religion, 2007); Mary Hayward’s report
for Warwick University (The Teaching of Christianity at KS3,
2007); the RE Council’s commission report (2007); and the work
of more than 30 regional support advisers to provide training on RE
in the new secondary curriculum.
Spirited Poetry Competition Autumn
2008
The themes are:
- I am....
- Mystery of life
- Windows on the soul
- Looking for God
- Questions, questions
The closing date is 1 December 2008 – full
details on http://www.natre.org.uk/
RE in the media
The Apprentice – you may have had the toe curling experience of
watching a group of business ‘tycoons’ humiliate themselves as they
showed their total lack of understanding of the terms ‘kosher’ and
‘halal.’ Secondary RE teachers have reported to me how this
proved to be a useful teaching aid, especially to address the ‘why
do we have to do RE?’ issue.