The Five Keys into RE

“The Five Keys into RE – a new way of planning for Teachers of RE in Special Schools” is a new way of planning Religious Education for pupils with special needs in English and Welsh schools, presenting a simple structure that helps bond pupils’ distinctive life experiences and understandings to the study of religion and human experience. 'The approach.takes a child centred approach to create authentic RE learning experiences that spring from the child’s needs.

The Five Keys Grid takes five key categories to help the teacher focus their planning:

• Connection
• Knowledge
• Senses
• Symbols
• Values

and then for each Key the Focus and then the Activities are developed.'

This approach was joint first prize winner of the NATRE-Hockerill Award for Innovation in RE Teaching, 2011. 

Anne Krisman, who developed the approach, was part of the recent East London Three Faiths Forum Tour of the Holy Land and is Head of Religious Education at Little Heath School, London Borough of Redbridge. See here and here for posts of art-related RE work designed by Anne.

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