Web Site Links for R.E.

New Secondary National Curriculum Guidance - http://curriculum.qca.org.uk/

Ely Diocese Education and Training - http://www.ely.anglican.org/education/

Bishops in Action - for KS2 and about the Lambeth Conference 2008 - http://www.bishopsinaction.com/

RE - What's Growing in Your Patch - Link here

Cambs RE and Web Resource - Link here

REfuel - Resources for Religious Education in the Classroom -  http://www.refuel.org.uk/

Islamic Charities and the Sense of Ummah - Link here

SparkleBox - free resources for Early Years and Key Stage 1 -  http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/newfree.html

Methodist Church Christian Art Collection - http://c99.e2bn.net/e2bn/leas/c99/schools/c97/accounts/re/Useful%20Links/Useful%20Web%20Links/

RE Festivals Calendar- http://www.support4learning.org.uk/religious_calendars/religious_calendars.cfm
This site offers a searchable database of religious festival dates based on a nationally recognised calendar (Shap). 

Hindu Festivals site - http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/religion/hindufestivals.htm

Teacherexpress - http://www.teacherexpress.com
A very good site providing education web links to web resources in every subject area.

QCA - www.qca.org.uk/subjects/ - (then select 'religious education')
Includes non-statutory guidance for RE and links to other key documents for the subject, as well as a number of helpful documents on spiritual and moral development. Linked sites include Learning Journey (DfES guidance for parents on how to support their child's learning in RE), the QCA schemes of work for RE at KS1, 2 and 3; guidance on supporting gifted and talented pupils in RE, and on planning RE for pupils with learning difficulties. The section on ages 3-14 also has material for each subject on diversity and inclusion, with excellent ideas for inclusion-friendly RE work.

NCaction - www.ncaction.org.uk/subjects/re/
Includes the QCA 8 level assessment scale and exemplification of standards material. There is also a useful section on ICT learning in RE.

The RE site - www.theresite.org.uk
This was one of the first RE gateway sites and is still very useful. Currently being reorganised, it includes an RE news page, links to RE organisations and relevant government sites, information about religions and sections for pupil use. Good section with virtual visits to places of worship.

RE-XS - www.re-xs.ucsm.ac.uk
Well established and easy to use gateway site. Lots of useful links, though it also includes a fair number of north American ones that are not really relevant to school RE in the UK.

BBC - www.bbc.co.uk/religion/
Fantastic site for teachers and older students, helpful and interesting in every way. Has basic information in accessible form on each religion, news items and controversial issues, information on festivals. Very well selected and relevant material, and the BBC's commitment to objectivity means that religions are presented from an 'outsider' perspective - but this is exactly what is needed for the school RE context.

BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/religiouseducation/stopthinkwonder.shtml
Link to timings for ten programmes in a series followin the processes of 'finding out', 'making connections' and 'thinking it over' proposed within the Effective Learning and Teaching of Religious and Moral Education examplars.  

RE Today - www.retoday.org.uk
This is the site of RE Today Services, formerly Christian Education Movement. It includes a marvellous set of materials on the 'Children talking' database, which contains the responses of young people to the 1997 RE Festival questionnaire - so there are answers (arranged by religion as well as age group and gender) to questions

about young people's beliefs about God, the after-life, relationships, how people should live, and the value of RE, amongst many other topics. In addition there is news information, sections on RE competitions and awards, downloadable materials and of course the RE Today catalogue which advertises some of the best publications currently available in terms of teacher resources.

Farmington Institute - www.farmington.ac.uk
This is the website of the Farmington Institute whose aim is to support, encourage and improve Christian education in schools, colleges and universities. One of its activities is the award of term-long fellowships to RE teachers in secondary schools and RE coordinators in primary schools. Farmington fellows produce reports on their subject of study which are posted on its website. They provide a wonderful archive of interesting work by practising teachers having a term to reflect and research. The range of topics is indicated by the following list of just a few of the dozens of reports on the site: RE and soaps; Concepts of God amongst children starting school; Experiential RE and spirituality; Virtue ethics for KS5; The Mexican Day of the Dead; In search of male-friendly RE; The language of Orthodox Icons; The teaching of world religions in an all-white school; Sikh children's spirituality.

The reports are downloadable and a number contain teaching materials. The site also gives details of when and how to make applications for fellowships and the other awards they offer.

BECTA - www.becta.org.uk
Type 'religious' in the search bar. The site includes valuable subject specific information and will be hosting regular ICT newsletters for each subject (both primary and secondary) from Spring 2004. Currently there is a section on the runner up in the Change and Innovation awards, describing the Inter Faith Dialogue through Email project by Julia Ipgrave of Uplands Junior School, Leicester.