RE Today Magazine – Summer 2026
We were deeply encouraged to see Project Touchline featured in the Summer 2026 edition of RE Today Magazine — one of the UK’s leading publications supporting Religious Education and Religion & Worldviews education in schools.
The article, titled:
“Double your time for RE without adding a minute: the brilliant simplicity of Project Touchline”
explores how values-based sport, collective worship, reflection, and embodied practice can deepen and enrich RE/RME/RVE across the whole school day.
Published within the magazine’s “Be Creative” edition, the feature reflects a growing conversation within church schools and RE communities about how children encounter values not only through classroom discussion, but through lived experience, relationships, movement, teamwork, stillness, and reflection.
A Values-First Approach to RE
Since 2018, Project Touchline has partnered with over 150 church schools across England and Wales, helping schools explore how Christian values can become visible, embodied, and relational through:
- Scripture-rooted Collective Worship
- Values-first PE and sport
- Prayer and reflection spaces
- Lunchtime Prayer Clubs
- Cross-curricular spiritual development
- SIAMS and Christian vision enrichment
At the heart of the article is a simple conviction:
RE Beyond the Classroom
The article argues that RE does not always need more curriculum time to become more impactful. Instead, schools can deepen spiritual, moral, and values-based formation by allowing learning to move beyond the classroom and into lived experience.
As the article explains, Project Touchline intentionally connects:
- worship,
- physical activity,
- reflection,
- relationships,
- and spiritual development
into one consistent rhythm across the school day.
The result is an approach where children experience values physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually together.
Supporting SIAMS, RVE and Whole-School Culture
The article also highlights how many schools have used Project Touchline to strengthen:
- Christian distinctiveness
- SIAMS evidence
- pupil wellbeing
- behaviour and self-regulation
- reflective practice
- prayer and spiritual development
- school culture and relationships
Several schools featured within the wider Project Touchline journey have described lasting impacts through lunchtime prayer clubs, calmer playtimes, deeper reflection, and stronger shared values language across the school community.
Featured in the Summer 2026 Edition
The Summer 2026 edition of RE Today Magazine focused on creativity within Religious Education and included contributions exploring:
- creativity in RE,
- lived religion,
- music and storytelling,
- culture and worldview,
- and creative classroom approaches.
We are grateful to have Project Touchline included within that wider national conversation.
A Continuing Conversation
We believe children remember what they experience together.
A moment of forgiveness after losing.
A moment of encouragement under pressure.
A circle of silence before prayer.
A game that teaches humility, courage, or teamwork.
These small repeated moments slowly shape culture.
Project Touchline exists to help schools create spaces where faith, values, reflection, and relationships become lived realities — helping children experience “life in all its fullness” (John 10:10).
Project Touchline connects faith, sport and wider learning across the school day. By linking subjects through discussion, creativity and practical experience, the programme helps children flourish academically, socially, emotionally, physically and spiritually together.