Useful Links

Adherents

  • Adherent – An extensive database of statistics on every religion/sect or religious group you can think of (and some you haven't). It claims statistics for some 4,200 groups. This could be useful if, in addition to other research, it was used selectively for pupils to find specific statistics on belief.

Art and Music

  • East Riding Media Library – East Riding Media Library – images of artefacts, world religions, places of worship and stained glass

BBC

Charities

Christianity

  • Archbishop of York
  • Culham Institute – The Culham Institute works to promote and support RE. Includes links to many other relevant websites.
  • Christmas and Easter
  • Culham
  • Church of England
  • Diocese of York
  • Dottie and Buzz – Activities, songs and games on various key Christian themes – e.g. forgiving, baptism for early years.
  • Farmington Institute – “The Farmington Institute was founded to support, encourage and improve Christian education in schools, colleges and universities. It is ecumenical in its commitment to the Christian faith and takes a particular interest in and is keen to develop good relationships with other world religions.”
  • Godly Play – creative and imaginative approach to Christian nurture
  • Harvest – An interactive harvest book with pictures and sound for early years and Key Stage 1
  • National Society – Website of the National Society of the Church of England
  • National Society – National society project on Godly Play in schools
  • REJesus – Resources include video, images of Jesus, poetry, quotations – ancient and modern, text messages of the Lord's Prayer and other sayings of Jesus, life issues, interviews and encounters. Play a pub style quiz on Jesus – from Sunday School to Spanish Inquisition level. There's even a thought provoking section called chocolate theology!
  • REQuest – This resource site is organised under different Key Stages or themes. There are downloadable worksheets and resources. It does not appear to differentiate between denominations and makes statements about what Christians believe.

CLEOnet

  • CLEOnet – An array of interesting and thought provoking resources and activities from different faiths on the Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online website.

Collective Worship

Creation

  • Genesis – Animated sequence accompanied by music, showing the seven days of creation. Sophisticated language.
  • The Big Myth – a website where animated creation myths from different culture can be read and listened to. There is also an opportunity for children to write their own creation myths – and send them to a monitored site, where the best ones will be posted.
  • Ethics for schools – to support GCSE and A Level
  • GCSE RE Site

Global Issues

  • Earth from the Air – A gallery of amazing photographs by Yann Arthus Bertrand which highlight environmental and other world issues.
  • Global Dimension – a large database of resources for global citizenship, broken into subject areas and key stages. Some resources are free, some to purchase.
  • PeaceJam – describes itself as “an international education program built around leading Nobel peace laureates who work personally with youth to pass on the spirit, skills and wisdom they embody. The goal of PeaceJam is to inspire a new generation of peacemakers who will transform their local communities, themselves and the world.” Curriculum links based on the work of such people as the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Mairead Corrigan.
  • REEP – The Religious Education and Environment Programme.
  • WHO – World Health Organisation

Hot Potatoes

  • Hot Potatoes – created by the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island Canada. A range of downloadable software programs which enable you to create ICT based activities, such as matching exercises, cloze procedures, multiple choice quizzes where you can give feedback to right or wrong answers, short answer quizzes where the student has to type in an answer, crosswords and jumbled sentences. Exercises created cabe be put either onto a network or onto

Human Rights Issues

  • Aegis Trust – A website which deals with genocide: Rwanda, Holocaust and related issues.
  • Amnesty International
  • Britkid – A student friendly site, which looks at a variety of racial issues through the eyes of students from different religious and ethnic backgrounds.
  • Holocaust Memorial Day – The site dedicated to the remembrance of the Holocaust on Holocaust Memorial Day in January each year.
  • Human Rights Watch – An extensive American website giving information on human rights issues continent by continent and also by theme.
  • Remember – A “Cybrary” of the Holocaust, Remember is a website, where contributors share stories of survival through art, photography, painting, and remembrance.
  • Spartacus – More of a history site, but includes useful information on racism, the history of Nazi Germany, civil rights, slavery and other themes which link with RE.

Interfaith Calendar

National Society

  • The National Society – The National Society provides a comprehensive service for Church schools including support for Collective Worship.
  • NATRE

Quotations and Sacred Texts

  • ThinkExist – a searchable website for finding religious or other quotations.
  • Sacred Texts – Beliefnet and Sacred Texts are sites contain a vast array of religious texts
  • Redbridge RE Network – A useful site which lists all world religions' festivals by date.
  • Refuel – RE curriculum resources for all Key stages
  • RE directory – A “First stop” reference point for RE
  • RE Net – A “one–stop” web portal providing materials for tutors, mentors and student teachers of RE.
  • RE Online
  • Tag Teacher – Lots of ideas, suggestions and web links including lesson resources and sounds.

Teddy's Day out

Virtual Tours

  • Edu Church – A site which helps pupils to explore and compare Christian church buildings and denominational practices.
  • Exploring Church Bridges – Part of the REQuest website. Visit and compare a large variety of denominational places of worship where you can view 360 panoramas.
  • St Mary's RC Church Grimsby – A site with hotspots to explore
  • The Hajj – One of the many websites from which to research the Hajj. Also contains many links to other sites.
  • The Hajj 2 – In addition to information about the Hajj, you can also watch video clips from the series “The Greatest Trip on Earth”.
  • Virtual Tours 1 – Visit a mosque, a synagogue or the Educhurch site from Robert Hitcham's School website.
  • Virtual Tours 2 – Part of the REonline website which links to a variety of virtual visits for denominations and different faiths.

World Religions