Resource Type: Films

Published date - Jan 2019

An Untold Story – Robyn is a young filmmaker from a small town in Scotland. She is used to telling other people’s stories, but has never put her own on camera. So in this film, she describes how she came to realise that she was gay, the initial shame she felt (and was made to feel) before proudly accepting herself for who she is.

An Untold Story

Video length - 08.50

Keystage(s) - 4

Ollie – My Future. My Career. My RE. Ollie is a sports reporter and his job takes him all over the world. He loves travelling, and having taken RE at school, he understands how religious beliefs influence countries and cultures, and this gives him a deeper appreciation of the places he visits and the people he meets.

Studying RE at GCSE and A Level provides you with important life skills, and offers opportunities in further education and a wide variety of careers. Watch the other MY FUTURE. MY CAREER. MY RE. films to hear more real stories about how Religious Studies benefits students and young professionals.

Ollie – My Future. My Career. My RE.

Video length - 01.23

Published date - Nov 2018

Published date - Nov 2018

Mo – My Future. My Career. My RE. Mo has been a firefighter for ten years, and he loves it. He has found that the knowledge and understanding he gained by studying RE has given him empathy for the many different communities he serves, and helps him to do his job better.

Mo – My Future. My Career. My RE.

Video length - 01.10

Published date - Nov 2018

Lilie – My Future. My Career. My RE. Lilie is a chef and recipe designer who says that the skills she learned in RE gave her the confidence to question, to weigh up different options and to decide what she wanted to do with her life.

Studying RE doesn’t mean you have to be a priest! It offers you experiences and skills that can be applied to many different jobs, and life in general.

Lilie – My Future. My Career. My RE.

Video length - 01.15

My Future. My Career. My RE. Studying RE at GCSE and A Level provides you with important life skills, and offers opportunities in further education and a wide variety of careers. This film is a short compilation of all our wonderful contributors – so have a look at their individual films too!

My Future. My Career. My RE.

Video length - 01.43

Shermeen – My Future. My Career. My RE. Shermeen is studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Warwick University, but she believes that studying RS at GCSE and A Level has helped her in her degree course. RS taught her to explore tough academic questions, how to construct complex arguments, and how to examine differing points of view and gain a new perspective on human behaviour.

Shermeen – My Future. My Career. My RE.

Video length - 01.30

Scully – My Future. My Career. My RE. Scully is a presenter and producer for a London radio station. His study of RE at school gave him vital lessons in understanding human differences and, most importantly, our similarities, and – he believes – makes him a better broadcaster.

Scully – My Future. My Career. My RE.

Video length - 01.13

Sena – My Future. My Career. My RE. Sena is a law student at Oxford Brookes University, and she’s found that a lot of the skills she learned while studying RE at school have been really valuable: learning to debate, seeing other people’s points of view, even making the case for a point of view that she disagrees with. There was the opportunity to immerse herself in other cultures, gain a deeper understanding of the world and learn how to consider different perspectives.

Sena – My Future. My Career. My RE.

Video length - 01.18