Mary Lou

The NATRE Secondary Subject Leader Toolkit is officially LIVE 😁 Whether you’re refining your curriculum or supporting your team, we’ve gathered the best research, documents, and strategies in one place. By teachers, for teachers 👇🏼 natre.org.uk/secondary-subj…

Not long to go now! 🤓 Hope to see you there @researchEDWarr

My book Secondary RE in Action is out next month! Preorder here👇 amazon.co.uk/Secondary-Reli…

New Substack post. A short and simple strategy from our English department using “while sentences” to help students show more nuance in GCSE Religious Studies answers. open.substack.com/pub/rewithmrsm…

So here are my 9 lessons for Core KS4 RE - as part of a 40 lesson set coming soon to the Oak site- free, downloadable, editable- 9 with my face should you wish to see it! Thank you again @OakNational what a rollercoaster of a ride #teamre @NATREupdate @culhamstgabriel

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🎥 #StoriesFocusWeek In our Stories that shape who we are series, Jane Yates, who is a humanist, shares the story The Star Thrower and reflects on its message about kindness and how small actions can make a difference. youtu.be/iycsFXUih_o

Considering applying for our Leadership Scholarship Programme? Paul explains why it provides such fantastic opportunities, from connecting you with a brilliant community to bespoke mentoring & supporting you to develop leadership skills cstg.org.uk/scholarship-pr… Close Mar 27th

Can you help us? We're working with teachers from schools for deaf and hearing-impaired pupils to develop a new RE curriculum for learners whose first language is BSL. We’d love to hear from teachers & BSL-first-language young adults cstg.org.uk/2026/02/25/cul…

🎥 @SarahDennis_RE shares some of her favourite Key Stage 1 books for RE, including picture books and storytelling Bibles that help bring religious stories and ideas to life for younger pupils. Some brilliant books here. #TeamRE

🎥 In our A story I love to tell in my classroom series, shared as part of #StoriesFocusWeek, Louisa from the @@TheREPodcast1 shares how the book Once Upon an Eid brings authentic Muslim voices, joy and lived experience into the RE classroom.

✨ #StoriesFocusWeek round-up Resources, research, blogs, films, book lists & more, everything we shared during the week is now all in one place. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed and to @ctvc for collaborating with us on such a brilliant week. reonline.org.uk/stories-focus-…

I love this explanation of Bandi Chhor Divas, why this is important to Baldeep & how she celebrates. Great for the classroom or just to find out more about Sikhi. @culhamstgabriel @NATREupdate @TeachersofRME

@TeachLeadAAli Thank you. I have never seen this before. I’ll use this next week!

Check it out! #WorldBookDay

I love Shabnam’s explanation of what her and her family do at Ramadan- a great short clip to show in the classroom. @NATREupdate @culhamstgabriel @TeachersofRME

@MaryMyatt top tip for storytelling: Images, artwork and other visual clues can help bring a narrative to life

@culhamstgabriel Thank you for sharing this. Definitely one of my favourite stories, which is permanently on my classroom bookshelf. I was also lucky enough to arrange a school trip to watch the theatre production earlier this year. Thank you John.

🎥 In the next video in our series “A story I love to tell in my classroom”, RE Lead John Semmens shares his favourite story. John reflects on how stories can help children engage with big questions & deepen understanding. youtu.be/aqWiCEUgTis