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Religious Education

Religious Education

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Course Overview

RE is the celebration of the traditional and the contemporary which is reflected in the broad range of texts and beliefs and practices available to be taught. It is a wide ranging and diverse subject to teach as it teaches beliefs and helps students to learn ethical behaviours. An excellent RE ITT student will be able to re-invigorate students interest in other religions and to inspire them to evaluate ideas which reflects some of the challenging issues in society. 

As a result, it is intended that Religious Education trainee teachers will be able to: 

  • Develop their subject knowledge to a depth and breadth that enables them to teach their subject at KS3-KS4 with confidence and competence
  • Understand the pedagogy of their subject and be both deliberate and judicious in their choice of methods and approaches
  • Be able of the curriculum requirements for the age range they teach and have awareness of how content is chosen to be broad, balanced and deliberately sequenced
  • Understand how learning happens in their subject and be able to use a range of approaches to ensure that knowledge is more likely to be retained
  • Learn about the statutory assessment arrangements for Religious Education and be able to guide and prepare students for both internal and external assessment
  • Anticipate and address common misconceptions within planning and lesson delivery
  • Develop students’ hinterland knowledge and intellectual curiosity
  • Use a wide range of subject terminology and be aware of strategies to help students use these terms for themselves
  • Provide learners with actionable, motivational and manageable subject specific feedback in order for them to make progress in their learning
  • Create classroom climates that are inclusive for all learners regardless of ability or background through an awareness of potential barriers to learning and how to overcome these
  • Learn how to activate hard thinking in their subject as a result of a deliberate approach to structuring, explaining, questioning, interacting and embedding knowledge 

 

Entry Requirements

Mandatory:

A degree in Religious Education, Philosophy or a related subject, at class 2:2 or above
Maths and English GCSE at grade 4/C or above

Recommended:

Involvement with young people in some capacity
An awareness of issues in RE Education

Reading List

Reading List

Course Funding

For 2025-2026, if you are eligible, you will receive a bursary of £10,000 to train in Religious Education.

To find out more about financing your teacher training, click here

Course Codes

QTS with PGCE, full time or part time - 2GGP

Any Questions?

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Lead Subject Tutor

Zahra Tyler

Zahra Tyler graduated from Sussex University with a Philosophy and Literature BA (hons). She has been teaching RE for over 10 years, and has been Leader of RVE at Hedingham School and Sixth Form for the last three years. And ECF mentor this year.  
Before joining Hedingham, she taught at St Mary’s Catholic School in Bishops Stortford. Teaching in both the faith and non-faith sector has given her a breath of knowledge of the various ways to RE is taught in school. 
Zahra loves teaching, and sharing her passion for learning with the students in her classroom and was really exhilarated to have the opportunity, when joining Hedingham to completely rewrite and develop the curriculum for KS3.  
Zahra is always interested in pedagogy and the art of teaching, and having had great tutors and mentors in her own early days, training teachers and mentoring has always been a keen interest of hers. She said: "ITTs and ECTs are the life blood for the future and a it is huge privilege to be part of their training."
Zahra Tyler

Zahra Tyler