Plato, the Cave, and Marcus Rashford: A KS3 Experiment It’s been a while since I uploaded a blog post — I’d hoped to do this every couple of months, but time seems to have slipped away from me. What I’d like to share today isn’t something I claim as entirely my own. As with many of my classroom ideas, it’s inspired by a whole host of sources, and particularly in this case, my fantastic school RE colleagues. Recently, we’ve been working hard to introduce more challenge to our Key Stage 3 RE curriculum — particularly for our Year 7 students. One of the ways we’ve done this is by introducing them to concepts we might not have tackled at this stage in the past. A notable example of this is our examination of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the Theory of Forms . We introduced these concepts not by diving straight into ancient Greek philosophy, but by using modern examples that students could relate to. One of the key figures we di...