RE Summer Bulletin

Key Dates for RE Festivals Summer 2020

Religious Tradition/Worldview Key Dates Baha’i 20th April to1st May Ridvan

23rd May Declaration of the Bab 28th May The Ascension of Baha’u’llah

19th July Martyrdom of the Bab Buddhism 7th May Vesakha Puja /Buddha Day

5th July Asalha Puja /Dhamma Day 24th July Chokor [Also Cho Kor Du Chen]

Christianity 10-16th May Christian Aid Week 21st May Ascension Day (CE/RC)

28th May Ascension Day (Orthodox) 31st May Pentecost /Whit Sunday

7th June Trinity Sunday 7th June Pentecost (Orthodox)

11th June Thanksgiving for the Eucharist 11th June Corpus Christi -Body & Blood of Christ [RC]

Hinduism 23rd June Ratha Yatra Islam 24th April – 23rd May Ramadan

Lailat-ul-Qadr: Night of Power 15th May [Shi’a]/19th May [Sunni]*

24th May Eid-ul-Fitr Feast of Fast Breaking 22nd-31st July Dhul Hijjah (First 10 Days)

28th July -2nd August Hajj 30th July Yaum-Arafah

31st July – 4th August Eid-Al Adha (Festival of Sacrifice) Jainism

Judaism* 21st April Yom Hashoah 29th April Yom Ha’atzma’ut

12th May Lag B’Omer 29th-30th May Shavuot

30th July Tisha B’Av Sikhism 16th June Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev

Other 21st June World Humanist Day 20th/21st June Midsummer Day

*All Jewish festivals begin the night before at sundown

Home Learning During Coronavirus

Pandemic

Below are some web links you can share with families

to help them support pupils with home learning for RE.

BBC RE Clips:

There are clips here that can be used for teaching and to prompt learning tasks:

KS1: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zxnygk7

KS2: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z7hs34j

Secondary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/11_16/site/re.shtml

GCSE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zb48q6f

This is a collection of videos related to RE, PSHE & Citizenship:

True Tube: https://www.truetube.co.uk/

RE Online:

RE Online are planning on releasing some free content for home-learning which

will be available here: https://www.reonline.org.uk/

Email a Believer: http://pof.reonline.org.uk/

Festival Calendar: https://www.retoday.org.uk/

Subject Knowledge: https://www.reonline.org.uk/subject-knowledge/ (useful for

parents trying to support children with RE tasks)

Places of Worship (with links to virtual tours):

https://www.reonline.org.uk/specials/places-of-worship/

NATRE:

NATRE have some free content for home-learning which is available here: https://www.natre.org.uk/about-natre/free-resources-for-you-and-your-pupils/

Humanists UK

Information for parents and teachers and resources available here:

https://humanism.org.uk/education/

There are some opportunities to look at beautiful things related to RE:

British Library: Sacred Texts: http://www.bl.uk/sacred

Museum With No Frontiers: http://www.museumwnf.org/

Visual Commentary on Scripture: https://thevcs.org/

50 Religious Treasures of University of Cambridge:

https://www.50treasures.divinity.cam.ac.uk/

A competition to coincide with Christian Aid Week (10th-16th May). Could be set as

home learning or done with pupils still in school.

https://www.christianaid.org.uk/schools/letters-creation

Teacher CPD During

Coronavirus Pandemic

During this time we have obviously had to cancel all of the planned

CPD and support (including the Westhill Subject Knowledge session on Judaism at the Birmingham Progressive Synagogue) for the rest of this academic year. We will make decisions on whether to release the planned CPD as a Powerpoint presentation and resources or to reschedule for 2020-2021 once we know more. A CPD plan for next academic year will be released when the situation becomes clearer.

In the meantime, please visit the Warwickshire SACRE website, where you will

find all previous CPD presentations and resources. Now is a good chance to catch

up on anything you may have missed.

SACRE Videos

We are hoping to be able to share some videos made by our SACRE members

during the period of lockdown whilst schools are closed. These will focus on

upcoming religious festivals. These will be emailed out to schools and can be used

for home learning or with pupils still in school.

SACRE Website

Please remember the Warwickshire SACRE site is the place where both Coventry

and Warwickshire schools can access the Coventry and Warwickshire Agreed

Syllabus and additional units of work:

https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/sacreresources

There are now ‘Do and Don’t’ documents for each of the major religions plus

Humanism in section 6, ‘Useful Resources’, on the SACRE website:

A Reminder re the Coventry and Warwickshire

Agreed Syllabus:

A licence was purchased by both local authorities to use an RE syllabus from RE

Today, which allows is accessed by schools via a password protected place on the

SACRE website. Please can we remind schools that they should not be making the

syllabus available to the public and it should not be shared in its entirety on your

school website. Thank you.

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SACRE Surveys- Please Complete ASAP. Thank you.

SACRE Surveys

Your views and feedback are very important to us and help us to tailor our support for

schools and the CPD we can offer.

You will also find the ‘SACRE-

Suggested Visits and Visitors list in

this section of the website. This

contains contact details to help you

in planning RE curriculum

‘encounters’ with living faith.

Coventry RE Exam Entries:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeM4HhJX9WAS-

H2W6TAdDrBM4zLv1YLJhhssOA-KBpweU6e2A/viewform

Coventry Agreed Syllabus Half Way Review:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKVCOj_ToVviO-

QG_o1c4Qs0Q3G_wmWWepPqXhUVWF_CC6cg/viewform

Warwickshire RE Exam Entries:

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=BqqwiCdZu0uok4nMJxOsgsH0

mPbeQwVLlqB0zlUwK61UQUZBQU1XTUlQTVZVVThLS05FRTg3RzJNRy4u

Warwickshire Agreed Syllabus Half Way Review:

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=BqqwiCdZu0uok4nMJxOsgsH0

mPbeQwVLlqB0zlUwK61UMFBTMzZPV0RIWFg2ODRJNVVEQ1E3NFNNSS4u

Teach RE have released some FREE CPD for teachers to do during Coronavirus

Pandemic:

https://www.teachre.co.uk/teach-re-course/teachre-free-self-study-module/

RE Resources & Websites

https://ethicsonline.co.uk/

There is a renewed focus on pedagogies of RE at the moment as curriculum is in

the spotlight. This resource from RE Online is useful for considering different

approaches of enquiry in RE:

https://www.reonline.org.uk/re-searchers-approach/the-characters/

Please also see this page for a list of different approaches to teaching RE:

https://www.natre.org.uk/primary/teaching-re/methods-of-teaching-re-1/

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The Bible Society have released some new Teacher Guides:

https://educationresources.biblesociety.org.uk/teachers-

guides/?source_code=50210_twitter_cpc_sources%20of%20wisdom%20-

%20200225%20[50210]_teachers%20guides_teachers&utm_source=twitter&utm

_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=sources%20of%20wisdom%20-

%20200225%20[50210]&utm_term=teachers%20guides&utm_content=teachers

New Primary Inter Faith Resource from the Inter Faith Network:

https://www.interfaith.org.uk/resources/learning-about-inter-faith-activity-a-

primary-resource

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Planning Ahead…

Inter Faith Week

8th-15th November 2020

https://www.interfaithweek.org/

Remembrance

https://www.interfaithweek.org/resources/remembrance

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National RE Research CPD

https://www.cstg.org.uk/programmes/rexchange/?utm_source=emailmarketing&

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