Religious education newsletter - November 2025

What a historic moment!

The news, this week, that the Curriculum and Assessment Review is recommending that RE should work towards becoming a National Curriculum subject has been widely welcomed.

The report states that there is a ‘strong consensus about the subject’s importance and its essential place in a school’s curriculum’, and that ‘RE's importance is not currently reflected in its standing in the curriculum’.

It therefore recommends a ‘staged approach to reform’, to bring RE into the NC. This will entail the setting up of a diverse group of interested parties to establish a blueprint for the subject. Watch this space.....

LTLRE hub (twilight) meetings are free and open to all teachers of RE, primary and secondary, wherever you are based. See LTLRE website for full details.

Torbay/S Devon hub: Oak resources Thursday18 November

Devon Primary hub: Assessment Tuesday 18 November

Devon Secondary hub: AQA exam Thursday 20 November

North Devon: Excellent RE Monday 24 November

SWIFT professional community: Wednesday 25 November

Cornwall hub: Worldviews in classroom Thursday 27 November

Are you making plans for Interfaith Week 2025?

Taking place from 9-16 November, it aims to raise awareness of the diverse contributions of faith and belief communities and promote understanding among people of different religious and non-religious beliefs.

Ideas: invite school speakers, visit Places of Worship, set up discussions, cultural events and activities etc.

Truetube videos here for Interfaith Week

Exeter Interfaith Week events here

Join the informal drop-in session 3.45pm on Tuesday 11 November.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81202859361?pwd=a2bjYp4Y3O3iQD3bAaaCIHrKxaaVyg.1

Meeting ID: 812 0285 9361

Passcode: 914530

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Farmington scholarships

Farmington scholarships are now open for primary and secondary teachers of RE.

Choose an RE topic to research and apply to take up to 30 days out of school, with someone else paid to take your classes! Closing date: 26 January 2026.

HMD 2026

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2026, 'Bridging Generations', is a call-to-action. A reminder that the responsibility of remembrance doesn't end with the survivors - it lives on through their children, their grandchildren and through all of us.

Details of events for schools in Exeter on Tuesday 27 January 2026

Booking form.

RE Hubs

Visit the RE Hubs website for all your RE needs: accredited School Speakers, Places of Worship, Advertise RE Jobs, Resources, Calendar of CPD Events, Local Groups.

Access local Religion and Worldviews visitors for RE.

Three Wise Women?

Could the Magi, described in Matthew’s Gospel and featuring in the traditional Christmas story, have been wise women?

Lifeboat Chaplains

Read about how lifeboat volunteers and chaplains stand by to serve over the Christmas holiday around the British coastline.