RE has made the school better – we learn more, we are tolerant of others. We are not just learning for exams – we have fun and it is interesting. It makes us think!
Linda Rudge is a freelance education expert specializing in RE. Before becoming project manager for the REQM, she led the partnership development of the Learn, Teach, Lead RE programme www.ltlre.org across several local authorities.
Linda is a qualified teacher, formerly a Section 48 (SIAMS) inspector, and she spent twenty years in higher education engaged in research and in initial and continuing teacher education. Linda is convinced that confident and valued teachers are the key to successful RE in any school, and that the REQM has a very important contribution to make to the subject’s success.
Linda has been a member of several Standing Advisory Councils for RE, and is now the Chair of the National Association of SACREs (elected in 2020).
RE has made the school better – we learn more, we are tolerant of others. We are not just learning for exams – we have fun and it is interesting. It makes us think!
RE is like an iceberg – as you unpack things you come to understand deeper meaning as in the parables or considering what truth means.
I don’t have a faith so it is good that I learn about faiths and then later on in life I could choose to follow a faith if I want to.
RE is about thinking hard as you have to really think about other peoples’ thoughts, and then help them to think even more about it – and that’s not easy!
RE really makes me think about the problems in the world today and I learn about things I never knew.
I like the philosophical aspects of RE – you can apply the thinking to what’s happening now.
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