Sally Brooman

Despite his slightly dodgy sounding name, another RE bod has introduced me to this guy and he's even done a video about my latest bit of learning- the Norman use of Sheela-na-gigs in churches Check out Inspector Organ's video! #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNRt5sLbf/

@RE_McGEE @TeamRE_UK One of mine too. There's some great stuff on there!

@MrsBdoesRE @TeamRE_UK This is my favourite tiktok account. I have also learned a lot from watching her videos. #ReChatUk

If you're looking for some real life RE, this lady is a British Muslim revert who talks very honestly about her journey to Islam. @TeamRE_UK #reallifeworldviews Check out Crystal 🇬🇧☪️❤️ كرستل's video! #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNRsWEVDW/

#REchatUK Thank you for joining our chat. See you soon for June's #REchatUK on provision for disadvantaged pupils in R.E. We look forward to seeing you!

#REchatUK QUESTION 11: What case studies do you use that you think are worth sharing?

@SarahHarden12 Totally agree with this #REchatUK

@MrsBdoesRE From Reception. Case studies can be effective at any age in enabling children to understand how religion is lived and experienced in people's everyday lives. #REchatUK

#REchatUK QUESTION 7: In which year groups do you start using case studies? Can they be effective with our youngest learners?

@CNewmanTeach RE today has some great resources for this #REchatUK

#REchatUK QUESTION 10: Case studies can be hard to find or create. What places/resources do you recommend for this?

I think our younger children really hook into the learning- they can tell you all about Hany El-Bana or Margalit from the belonging and believing books #REchatUK

#REchatUK QUESTION 9: What impact on learning have you seen or would you expect to see from using case studies?

@buckbyfamily Yes these are brilliant. We still use them. #REchatUK

@MrsBdoesRE I used to love watching Let’s Celebrate to see examples of lived experiences and the Child’s Eye videos of festivals. They were great for case studies for the youngest pupils. #REchatuk

@ChrisNatre Yay! 100% agree with this. Our KS1 were fascinated when some of the regular visitors we had to worship took them on a virtual tour of their place of worship #REchatUK

@MrsBdoesRE All Year groups please. You are never too old or young for a case study. #REChatUK

@lizzim9 I think definitely real for KS2 #REchatUK

@MrsBdoesRE I think real is great although some fictionalised could be useful as a way for our younger children. #rechatuk

#REchatUK QUESTION 5: Do you use composite/fictionalised case studies, real case studies or a mixture of both?

@RE_McGEE @JoanneH_RE I think you could be right Nikki. For me, in Primary, I wrestled with not having the "right" case study when working on something for the REC project until we discussed fictionalised case studies with @GillCGeorgiou #REChatUK

@JoanneH_RE @MrsBdoesRE I wonder if there is also a primary / secondary divide here. #REChatUk

@CNewmanTeach I think it might be Paul Hedges #REchatUK

@MrsBdoesRE I can't remember who said it but there's research to say fictional ones work just as well. I can use aspects of different people's authentic worldviews to put together exactly what I am wanting to emphasise to students. I still check it with someone within the faith #REchatUK

@Greg_Parekh I think for our very youngest learners a persona doll representing one Christian helps them begin to form the idea that there are more opinions around them. This Christian (Tessa in our EYFS) thinks... but Bob, our Methodist minister thinks... for example #REchatUK

@MrsBdoesRE A mix of both works. Real case studies bring authenticity and help students engage with lived experience, while fictionalised examples can protect anonymity, simplify complexity, or foreground particular themes. The key is being transparent about which is being used #rechatuk

We very much use fictionalised case studies through our persona dolls in EYFS, some fictionalised and some real in KS1- must give @BooksAtPress a shout out here for the excellent belonging and believing resources and moving more to the real case studies across KS2 #REchatUK

@CNewmanTeach @RE_Hubs I think @RE_Hubs is definitely worth tapping into for case studies #REchatUK

@MrsBdoesRE I think having a living library of speakers you can utilise (contact your SACRE or @RE_Hubs) shows the worldview you are studying does exist in the form of a real person! #REchatUK

#REchatUK QUESTION 3: How can case studies be used to enhance learning about your local area?

@Greg_Parekh We are a stone's throw away from Epworth- home of the Wesley's so we use their story and our local methodist minister to introduce some diversity in Christianity in KS1 #REchatUK

@MrsBdoesRE It can help students connect big ideas to places, communities and issues they recognise. In Cornwall, this could mean exploring faith through mining heritage, Methodism, pilgrimage sites, food poverty, tourism or environmental issues affecting coastal communities. 1/2 #rechatuk

We use William Wilberforce (who is from just across the Humber from us) in Y5/6. It really helped us not only focus on his worldview but we used it (or tried to) with a FORB lens looking at freedom. Very few of ours knew who he was! #REchatUK