This is a game I created and use with Y9 as part of a SOW that addresses the question of 'What is real?' This game features in a lesson on the Matrix and we explore whether or not students think it's always best to know the truth. The link to the film is made through the choice of the red and blue pill. I devised the game in order to help students find reasons and give justifications for deciding to either stay in the Matrix, or leave and discover the truth. It's necessary to print the game board as A3 and the cards as A4.

A tailored reading for information sheet with an accompanying analysis triad. Students are tasked with creating their own religious festival subsequently.

The empathy person task is a way of showing understanding of concepts/ideas or events by forcing students to categorise their thinking. I've used this task to accompany video material often. Such as the key events like Passover ('Prince of Egypt' works well for this) or ritual events like weddings/funerals. I've used it when teaching prejudice and discrimination, wealth and charity, the list goes on.

KS3 RE Assessment. Three or four lesson assessment task. I use this as the culmination of a Year 8 SOW on the holocaust entitled 'Faith and Suffering'. The lesson could be adapted for use in History SOWs. Lesson one: You require the PPT slideshow, the memorial stations (preferably printed onto A3 and laminated) and the ideas board. I encourage students to write on the stations sheets using board pens so they can be rubbed off and re-used. The ideas board can be set as a homework. Lesson Two (possibly with an additional lesson): Students working in pairs to complete the A3 proposal blueprint for their own memorial design. Lesson Three: Students to write a letter to the local council to ask permission to erect their memorial. This is individual work to be levelled alongside the pair work.

Lesson intended for use with AQA Religion, War and Peace unit. It details different types of pacifism and scriptural sources from the Gospel narratives. A card-sort encourages students to analyse the scriptural sources. Students will learn key scripture in support of pacifism. Furthermore, students are asked to compare contrasting accounts in the Bible and evaluate whether or not Jesus was a absolute pacifist and if not, what he really thought about violence.