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Welcome to the Lewisham Religious Education Community
Who's who? Meet the Lewisham RE Team
More RE resources and information can be found on the LGfL Virtual RE Staffroom (www.re.lgfl.net)
 Want to organise a visit? Click here to locate a Place of Worship in Lewisham
For information about National initiatives and links to many other useful RE sites, see the website for the RE Council of England and Wales: http://www.religiouseducationcouncil.org/
Talking about the current crisis in the Middle East
The Three Faiths Forum have been busy pulling together ideas about on educating about the current crisis and have produced an educational resource. It does not deal with the details, but what to consider when educating about it and how to create ways to help people really understand the complexity of the situation. They’ve also been collating short think pieces from different people related to this issue Find this material on http://www.threefaithsforum.org.uk/Conflict.htm
RE Management for all:
Upload here management tools including example RE and collective worship policies and audit tools for meeting statutory requirements for RE, the school's provision for the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils and raising attainment at RE GCSE
Curriculum:
 Buddhism
Buddhist presentation and The Dalai Lama's words for life
 Christianity
Visit a parish church - interactive visit to St. James', Grimsby
Primary resource for teaching about Christianity: RE Ideas: Christianity – copiable activities for 7 to 11 year olds
Stations of the cross - Kenyan images
Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel
Advent:Woodlands school Calendar: http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/calendar/
 Hinduism
Images of a Historic new Temple built in India
The Rama and Sita story powerpoint presentation
 Islam
Islam Awareness week
Visit a Mosque Powerpoint presentation - for Primary schools
Islamic Art & Music
 Judaism
Visit to the Synagogue in Stoke on Trent
All you need to know about Passover on the internet
 Sikhism
The Guru Granth Sahib on line - Sikh scriptures in Gurmurkhi and English
Visit a Gurdwara powerpoint - images from the new purpose built Gurdwara in Southall
Spirituality:
Spiritual Development / collective worship on the theme of Hope
Collective Worship stimulus - The Seven Wonders of the modern world
Powerful presentation about the way man is treating the environment 'Life in the year2070'
Musical powerpoint - 'The Prayer'
Collective worship powerpoints - Wonderful earth and Mother of the Year
Peace Studies: visit the Peace Mala website to find out about Peace Malas, what they mean and how you can obtain and use them in Key Stage 2 and above
Events, new ideas and advice on ICT in RE:
Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
Visit the RE Jesus website to find out about William Wilberforce
Click here to visit a website for resources on teaching about the abolition of the Slave Trade
Key Stage 2 & 3
Curriculum Bites 2 (available from RE Today as a copiable pack and 2 hours of video at 37.50) includes a super six minute programme on how it was when Danielle, 15, started her own religion in Manchester and on the web. Have a look at her website: www.onewor1d.com Her new religion is fascinating for teenagers, and setting them the task of reviewing the site is a great homework
The Spirited Arts web gallery, with some wonderful new work from pupils. Do have a look: www.pcfre.org.uk/spiritedarts
Holocaust Memorial Day powerpoint presentation based on the 2006 theme use with year 6 and above
Holocaust Memorial Day website containing materials for schools
SACRED - website of the British Library on Sacred texts and sites
Ideas for ICT in RE: Secondary and Primary
Citizenship
The RSPCA education department has a site for primary and secondary teachers, where they can download free resources and order free photopacks. Mainly citizenship and science links - with some ICT and literacy cross-curricular work - hyperlinks to QCA schemes of work, other useful websites, video clips etc.
Visiting Places of Worship
Visit the RE Page on the Cleo Website for virtual tours and much more
Useful advice and a record sheet for visits to places of worship
Links to other Lewisham RE Areas:
 South London Multi-Faith, MultiCultural Resource Centre
 Lewisham S.A.C.R.E. for SACRE's guidance notes, newsletters and collective worship advice including support relating to challenging national and world events and issues
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