ABSTRACT
The first edition of this book, then titled Religious Education 5-12, was published in 1987, a year before the Education Reform Act of 1988 came into effect. In many ways this Act changed the face of education in England and Wales, perhaps especially in primary schools, by introducing so much that is now taken for granted: the National Curriculum, the key stages, the numbering of year groups from YR to Y13, SATs, OFSTED, to name but a few. As the book predated the Act none of these, not surprisingly, appeared in it.
