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The Interfaith Education Centre

Mission Statement
To promote understanding of religious, ethnic and cultural diversity; affirming identity and recognising commonality for the benefit of Bradford's children, their families and the wider community.
To value all people and treat them with respect.
To value people's different skills and backgrounds.
To promote equality and good relationships and challenge discrimination.
Religious Education
To access the study units from the new 2006 Syllabus for Religious Education please click here
To access illustrative teaching materials for each study unit please click here
To access a model policy for RE please click here.
To acces guidance on parental objections to visits to places of worship click here
New Religious Education Resources
St Clements Church - A Sacred Space
Object trails in the Early Years Foundation Stage. A DVD planned, produced by and featuring Reception Children from Feversham Primary School, Bradford.
Video Wall - the Hanfia Mosque
An interactive whiteboard resource for teaching about Islam. Find out what children think about visiting a mosque. What wowed them? What did they learn? What surprised them? Designed and made by children at Newhall Park Primary School.
Holocaust Pack and CD ROM for Key Stage 4 (revised 2008)
A pack of information, lesson plans, activities and a CD ROM. The focus is on citizenship and RE, but the pack has potential for use across the curriculum. Price £12.50 + p&p. Available from April 2008.
Sacred Spaces DVDs: exploring places of worship through object trails
These DVDs and CD ROM packs are available now from the Interfaith Education Centre, price per pack £20.00 + package and postage (p&p). Each pack contains one DVD and one CD Rom. The places of worship featured on the DVDs are the Hanfia Mosque; the Bradford Reform Synagogue; the Kashyapa Buddhist Centre; the Hindu Cultural Society Mandir; the Ramgarhia Gurdwara and the Roman Catholic Polish Church. They are useful in KS3 and also across the primary phase, for supporting visits to places of worship. They are also useful in delivering the National Framework for RE and the Bradford Agreed Syllabus.
A Cutural Heritage GPS Trail and DVD
A DVD trail of the Little Horton area of Bradford, focusing on religious diversity, demographic, social and cultural change (particularly useful for Key Stages Two and Three) Cross curricular (links with RE and NC programmes of study) Made with the help of sixth formers in Bradford Schools. This is accompanied by a CD ROM for teachers and a GPS interactive satellite trail of the area, which can be used by students. Available September 2007. One free copy for all Bradford schools, additional copies and none Bradford schools £10.00 plus p&p.
Coming soon Cultural Heritage Trails of Keighley (Nessfield Primary School)and Woodside (Woodside Primary School) AND a GPS 'Peace Trail' designed and made by Rhodesway School.
Slavery: An Unfinished Business.
Upper Key Stage Two. A CD ROM and A4 file of information exploring the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and also looking at modern slavery and the power that people (including children) have to influence change. The pack includes background information for teachers, biographies, primary source documents, mind maps, lesson plans, activities for children, interactive Kar2ouche storyboard and Kar2ouche film strip for whiteboard/PC Links are identified with RE and the NC programmes of study. Free to Bradford schools. Additional copies and none Bradford schools £11.50 plus p&p.
Key Stage Three. A CD ROM and A4 file of information and activities for students, based on the Citizenship Foundation’s resource Ending Slavery: An Unfinished Business. Free to Bradford schools. Additional copies and none Bradford schools £11.50 + p&p
Useful websites for Black History:
Black History Month
Acts of Achievement
Liverpool Black History
Good Practice
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For more information about these new resources please contact
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01274 - 385623
Interfaith Education Centre,Listerhills Road, Bradford, BD7 1HD
Tel: 01274 - 731674
Fax: 01274 - 731621
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Open during term time Monday to Thursday 9.00 - 5.00; Friday 9.00 - 4.00
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