The interviews

The following films contain succinct interviews with people of faith from Cornwall. Each of the RE-searcher characters has asked two questions to five members of the Cornwall Faith Forum (http://dorkemmyn.org.uk/). This project, sponsored by Cornwall SACRE to mark Interfaith Week (https://www.interfaithweek.org/), provides teachers with video stimuli to use in the classroom as starting point or focus for a lesson. Furthermore, it provides schools using the RE-searchers approach an opportunity to see how each of the RE-searchers elicits different kinds of information from people of faith and provides them with a springboard for different forms of enquiry. For example activity ideas for each character to use in conjunction with the videos see:

P26 for Ask-it-all Ava activity ideas
P33 – 35 for Debate-it-all Derek activity ideas
P42 – 46 for Have-a-go Hugo activity ideas
P59 – 60 for See-the-story Story Suzie activity ideas

in the following resource:

The RE Searchers A New Approach To RE In Primary Schools

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Introducing the Interviewees:

Video 1: Tell us about yourself?

Video 2: What faith tradition do you belong to?

The Ask-it-all Ava Interviews:

Video 3: According to your faith tradition, what is the meaning and purpose of life?

Video 4: Would all people within your faith tradition agree with your answer?

The See-the-story Suzie Interviews:

Video 5: In your sacred texts / scriptures, which story is the most important to members of your faith tradition and why?

Video 6: How does this story shape your life?

The Debate-it-all Derek interviews:

Video 7: What do you believe about God?

Video 8: Why do you believe this?

The Have-a-go Hugo interviews:

Video 9: What happens when someone from you faith tradition gets married?

Video 10: What does it feel like to take part and what do you think about at the ceremony?

The full interviews:

Baha’i:

Jewish:

Muslim:

Pagan:

Quaker: