RE – PLT Day

Key note speaker:  

Ed Pawson  (Ed presents on national platforms for RS, NATRE Executive, Educational consultant, Exeter Diocese and Devon SACRE adviser)  

Speech will include:  

• Commission on Religious Education Report which has been established to review the legal, education, and policy frameworks for religious education (RE) 
• NATRE (National Association of Teachers of Religious Education) 
• How can we bring engagement to RS?  
• How can we bring academic rigor to the study of RS to ensure challenge? 

Provisional workshops:  

Provision of core/statutory RE, Subject knowledge (A level Buddhism), HoDs toolkit, engagement/enrichment/trips, challenge for the top end including boys, GCSE/A level moderation. 

These workshops  will be offered as a menu of choices to ensure teachers can pick based on individual CPD needs. Each workshop will have a facilitator. Teachers will come with resources, exemplar materials, questions etc to enable fruitful discussions around the themes of the workshops.  

Itinerary 

9-10 Key Note: Ed Pawson: Challenge and engagement 

10 -10.15 Break 

10.15 -11:15 Workshops: Core RE (Debby/Plymstock), Engagement (Louise), Subject Knowledge Christianity (Ed) 

11.15-12.15 Workshops: Subject Knowledge Buddhism (Tanya), Challenge A/A*/9 (Clare), Subject Knowledge Islam (Ed) 

12:15-12:45 Lunch Break

12.45-13:45 Workshops: HoDs toolkit/open discussion, PCFCD 

13.45-14.45 Workshops: GCSE/A Level discussion and moderation 

14:15-15.15 evaluation and forward planning for Open hubs 

Please note that lunch is not included but is available to buy on the day.