⭐️ RE recommended to be included in the national curriculum 🪜 Francis and co recommend a 2-stage process led by Dr Vanessa Ogden 👏 An incredible, landmark moment to reverse the fortunes of an important, but beleaguered, subject

📚Wonderful to be at the @cstvoice.bsky.social annual conference. 🎶Amazing performance by pupils from Wicked 🧙‍♀️ to kick the day off. 😂 (Subtle message of pupils to leaders via lyrics: “unadulterated loathing” and “such strong detestation” 😂) #CSTConf25

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Great to be at @educationfest.bsky.social with @claireheald.bsky.social. Fascinating reflections on England’s curriculum & assessment review with @beckyfrancis.bsky.social @annatreth.bsky.social @lizrobinson.bsky.social @johndickenssw.bsky.social

Listening to @camacademytrust.bsky.social’sown @thewayofkueh.bsky.social set out his response to the @beckyfrancis.bsky.social curriculum and assessment review.

@thewayofkueh.bsky.social says we need to see a joined up approach to education. It’s important for the government to set out how initiatives will connect. For example what will be the way that curriculum reform, following the review, will link up with promised SEND reforms? #EducationFest

Lively discussion, despite the relative consensus, about curriculum & assessment at the Festival of Education with @annatreth.bsky.social @beckyfrancis.bsky.social @lizrobinson.bsky.social @thewayofkueh.bsky.social & @johndickenssw.bsky.social.

I’m slightly confused - and very happy to be corrected if I’m wrong - but isn’t that the BBC’s Education Editor featuring in this political party-branded video? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Since 2022 when I became a subject lead for Humanities I have discovered just how powerful a rigorous, coherent RE curriculum can be and how much it underpins and complements other subjects. Important words from Richard Kueh here.

A really thoughtful and well written article by from @thewayofkueh.bsky.social in today’s TES. He clearly sets out the problems of RE as a Cinderella subject, but also recognises the incredible possibilities that come with high quality RE. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

RE ‘injects wisdom, sensitivity and reflection into a world that is asking big questions about artificial intelligence, sustainable living . . . climate changes and what it means to live well together’ @natre-update.bsky.social @thewayofkueh.bsky.social #TeamRE www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Struggled to pick just 1 standout quote from @thewayofkueh.bsky.social brilliant article. But here it is: “RE injects wisdom, sensitivity & reflection into a world that’s asking big Qs about AI, the relationship between humans & the natural world, climate changes, & what it means to live well.”

Cinderella must go to the ball. This says Dr Richard Kueh regarding RE www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Important article from Richard Kueh -Religious education is often an afterthought, but it’s a subject that can have a profound impact on understanding the world, says former senior Ofsted inspector @thewayofkueh.bsky.social @natre-update.bsky.social t.co/n1mdhVDp8R

📣New post! 👡Time for Cinde-RE-lla to go to the ball? 🧩Religion today is complex. Intelligent RE prepares pupils for complexity 🌍Curriculum craves diversity; RE is inherently diverse 💭RE injects wisdom, sensitivity & reflection into world asking BigQs: AI💻, climate change🌡️ & living well together🖖

This graph is visually boring, but is completely fascinating to me. It's the share of people who "believe there is life after death." It's actually gone UP, just slightly since 1973. Even as religious attendance and affiliation have dropped exponentially.

Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar. Rest in peace, Dawn. We miss you, so very much.

Great to be here at CST school improvement 2025. @steverollett.bsky.social gave an insightful opening. Now listening to @unleashingme.bsky.social on teacher progression

So fascinating…

⭐️ 🖖 STAR BECK(Y) Curriculum: THE NEXT GENERATION Season 1 - out today with @beckyfrancis.bsky.social Season 2 released in the autumn… Live long, and prosper, Becky.

Culham St Gabriel's CEO Dr Kathryn Wright and Chair of Trustees Dr Linda Whitworth respond to the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report, which was released this afternoon. Read more at the link below: ow.ly/9Ba750VjX3K

👏 Really encouraged by this, and hope that there will be a positive, practical and persuasive pathway given for RE. 📖 This interim report used as evidence my final “Deep and Meaningful?” Ofsted RE report, showing that *lack of shared standards around content* in RE leads to *national disparities*

‼️🚨🔔📢 Interim Report Now Out Pleased to see that the @beckyfrancis.bsky.social report recognises that *lack of shared standards around content* in religious education leads to *national disparities* drawing on my final @ofstednews.bsky.social report “Deep and Meaningful?” CAAR will keep in mind!

You hear a lot of arguments about the abstract need to "slim down" the curriculum. In our latest post I suggest 2 primary topics that could be cut - but I also warn against overall reductions of content, as this will lead to lower standards. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/designing-...

Following the appointment of Tom Wood to the post of Principal at Bedford Free School, we are looking for a Deputy Principal from September 2025. This is a brilliant school we want to take to even greater heights. Please share: mynewterm.com/jobs/138228/...

Really proud to see this piece by @ofstednews.bsky.social out, the culmination of years of work. I had the privilege of overseeing its early development as Deputy Director, and so delighted to see it published. Congratulations @gchurchill1.bsky.social and team!

Passionate about maths? Committed to transforming lives through education? The CAM Academy Trust are looking to appoint an expert leader of maths who can lead the maths strategy across our Trust. For more info: www.academicis.co.uk/vacancy/trus... #EducationLeadership #edujobs #education

@andrewoneill.bsky.social is, as usual, thoughtful in his approach in @tesmagazine.bsky.social, but there’s a profound misconception certainly in the headline. @ofstednews.bsky.social *is not* the regulator for schools (that’s DfE), but *is* for EY and social care. It’s just a school inspectorate.

A great article from Lord Bilimoria in support of the value of #RE. #TeamRE Why not send it to your MP, particularly if they're a Labour MP? www.politics.co.uk/comment/2025...

Phillipson says that the Francis @beckyfrancis.bsky.social review will lead to “a core curriculum for all children that is deep and rigorous, knowledge-rich down to its bones” and mentions all pupils studying the Holocaust/Shoah. Does this “core” mean include RE? schoolsweek.co.uk/bridget-phil...

A global take on religion and non-religion sometimes disrupts European ‘normalised’ claims about religion… Again, RE in England could/should(?)/must(?) help every pupil in school develop an *informed perspective*. Fascinating data source here from @pewresearch.org

Less than two weeks till my book launch at @stpaulscathedral.bsky.social - tickets are going fast, but thankfully there are *quite* a few seats at St Paul's 😃 All welcome - you don't even have to be a mother. Tuesday, 11 February Free tickets 👇🏾 www.stpauls.co.uk/unmaking-mary

"It’s clear that the educational assumptions sitting behind the 1988 legislation do not reflect the realities of schools today". www.reonline.org.uk/2025/01/31/t... Superb analysis by @thewayofkueh.bsky.social of the background to the unacceptable RE problem. Let's sort it @beckyfrancis.bsky.social

…and of course @daisychristo.bsky.social

⛓️‍💥Christine says that change is needed. I agree: the centre cannot hold… 🤔 Wondering what might some of the barriers be to what @counsellc.bsky.social proposes in this @johndickenssw.bsky.social @schoolsweek.bsky.social piece? 👀 …have a read of this that explores the painful journey of RE…

🤓Get your geek on!!! ⁉️What does Yeats’ poetry have to do with England’s curriculum and assessment review?? 🤯Maybe everything! 👩‍🏫Inspired by those English teachers who have helped me to think about education through different eyes www.reonline.org.uk/2025/01/31/t...

The most recent Ofsted RE subject report left me feeling deflated. Many of us from #TeamRE, especially frontline teachers said something has to change. The same negative narrative about RE has been a backdrop to my 20-year career. I agree with every word from @thewayofkueh.bsky.social. #TeamRE 1/2

A final blog, there have been 4 in total, on RE in the Curriculum &assessment review. This time we hear from @thewayofkueh.bsky.social @culhamstgabriel.bsky.social www.reonline.org.uk/2025/01/31/t... #TeamRE

🧩 Imagine creating a jigsaw puzzle to map out the world’s complex religious landscape. 🚫 Now imagine that you’re *not allowed* some pieces, because of your school type, or your location 🗺️ But others *are allowed* more, because of their school type and location. @counsellc.bsky.social

Absolutely right @thewayofkueh.bsky.social. This is a once-in-a-generation moment to tackle this inequitable state of affairs that has been a problem for decades. I hope that @beckyfrancis.bsky.social will recommend it and that the secretary of state will seize the day.

🚨 One of the biggest choices of our generation. ⁉️ That’s what faces the CAAR @beckyfrancis.bsky.social 😔😟😞 KEEP a system with an *in-built* postcode lottery for pupils…? 💪 Or, BE BOLD and make it *fairer* for all pupils, by specifying a national entitlement in RE…? @counsellc.bsky.social

Strongest RE think through "rules of Game". Are we aware of how the subject switches through disciplines? Best RE anticipates intellectual curiosity. @natre-update.bsky.social #TeamRE #StrictlyRE

The traditions themselves offer up ‘beautiful objects of fascination’. @thewayofkueh.bsky.social calls on RE teachers not to oversimplify, but to revel in the fascinating nature of our subject. #TeamRE #StrictlyRE

Great advice for #TeamRE from @thewayofkueh.bsky.social at #StrictlyRE @natre-update.bsky.social

What pitfalls should be avoided and what needs to be improved in the next iteration of ECF and NPQ? 🤔 Great to have joined in the conversation 💬 with professionals thinking hard about improving staff, teacher and leadership development. @camacademytrust.bsky.social @jonsevers.bsky.social 👇👇👇👇👇

Pleased to have shared in this conversation with TES about the importance of effective leadership development, including NPQs, if we are to genuinely re-imagjne education as a career in which adults can expect to flourish. 👇👇👇

As Becky says, really lovely to see & hear from so many practitioners today in Cambridgeshire. Thank you for coming everyone and to the wonderful people of Cam Academy Trust for being brilliant hosts and taking time to speak to us this morning 🙏🙌

Privilege to host @beckyfrancis.bsky.social @jonhutchinson.bsky.social and @cassiebuchanan.bsky.social with @claireheald.bsky.social at Cambourne Village College, part of @camacademytrust.bsky.social Great to hear thoughtful and professional dialogue about the future of curriculum & assessment