We have found out about what it is important to other people and that makes us think what is important to us.
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).
We have found out about what it is important to other people and that makes us think what is important to us.
I like the philosophical aspects of RE – you can apply the thinking to what’s happening now.
RE helps you to deal with problems in your life because you see different viewpoints.
Tom told us how to make a logical argument and philosophise about the steady state and big bang theories and how future generations rely on us.
(The school has made links with a local Sixth College and Tom, an A Level Philosophy student, came in to teach an RE lesson.)
It is fun and the homework is interesting … even my dad finds it interesting!
I loved the fact that when an example of evidence from the REQM criteria was unknown to this teacher she looked it up and is already piloting Labyrinths and other methods.
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