1. Kathryn Wright Diocesan RE Adviser May 2011

2.  How many would be…  Christians?  Muslims?  Hindus?  Buddhist?  Other religions?  No religion?

3.  To be able to share examples of creative curriculum planning with other members of staff back in school  To have applied some simple tools to enable creative curriculum planning with RE at the heart

4.  Effective RE has these characteristics:  - it stimulates the children’s imagination  - it links to other curriculum areas, especially English, art, drama and music  - creative activities have a clear focus of learning  - there are high expectations through the use of enquiry

5.  A stimulus to motivate and engage  A clear conceptual focus so RE can link to other curriculum areas easily e.g. ‘belonging’, ‘community’, ‘commitment’, ‘journey’…  Pupil led questioning and activities designed to elicit a range of creative responses  High expectations where assessment is part of the planning process and embedded in the enquiry framework  A framework which allows for creativity

6. Building blocks for an effective enquiry in RE

7.  The Lord’s Prayer Project  Journeys  Values  Eco RE  A Time for Everything  Community of enquiry  Godly Play

8.  The issue of withdrawal. RE must be discernable in planning. Consider integration and discreet RE  False links- beware…don’t make links that aren’t there…!  Creative approaches must enhance the RE- remember Transforming RE…

9.  Use one of the resources provided today  Use the proposed AS enquiry framework to explore a concept in RE and link to other curriculum areas  Explore ways of using the outside space at school to develop cross curricular approaches to the environment