The resources that have been created can be found on the RE:Connect website in the projects gallery. More resources will be added soon.

Some of the teacher fellows have also shared why they chose to take part in the project, the pedagogies they used and details of their resources in a blog.

At the beginning of the project the results of a teacher survey showed that there is a huge amount that RE teachers can contribute through their subject teaching to the issue of climate change. And there’s a huge desire out there to get this kind of work underway – 89% of the teachers we surveyed shared that they would like to do more work to explore the environment more fully as a theme in their current RE teaching. However, there are also significant barriers to this work. On that same survey, the highest number (45%) of respondents suggested that one the current syllabus prevents them from exploring the environment more fully as a theme their RE teaching. A lack of available work schemes (35%) and resources (29%) came in second as barriers to exploring teaching on this subject. The work of RE:Connect has attempted to provide some these resources based on the research that was shared with the Teacher fellows on the programme.

As you look at the work that has been created consider these questions

• Where in your curriculum do you look at this area?
• What different pedagogies can be used to look at this area of the curriculum?

Jeremy Kidwell has also written in the Journal of Moral Education on this area, Personal Knowledge: Teaching place-based religious ethics for a climate emergency.

If you want to find out more about this work, would be interested in trialling some of the resources that have been created by the teacher fellows or might be interested in being involved in the next cohort of teacher fellows contact Ian Jones on Director@saltleytrust.org.uk