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This page will keep you up to date with resources and items of interest in relation to Religious and Moral Education in both the Primary and Secondary sector.

Elliot and Elaine would be delighted to hear from any school undertaking innovative and exciting work in this field. Please send us an email about it or contact us on 01631 564908.

Religious Observance

www.ltscotland.org.uk/religiousobservance - External Site

Learning and Teaching Scotland are creating a website of resources to support religious observance following the implementation of Circular 1/2005.

Resources available include:
Ideas for Quiet assemblies
Sample policies and templates
Cross curricular Themes

Authority Support Materials

The Authority Policy on Religious Observance has been issued to all schools.

A Religious Obervance Self-evaluation toolkit for schools is available in hard copy from Elaine.

Authority support materials have recently been issued to Primaries to enable schools to take forward Religious Observance. A working party developed a number of Religious Observance templates across the stages which have been issued to Head Teachers at the January Business Meetings. These were provided in hard copy and on cd.

My thanks to:
Christine Darroch, Head Teacher of Keills Primary
Pam Atack, Head Teacher of Rosneath Primary
Sally Stankey, Acting Head of Lochgilphead Primary


Secondary materials are under development.

Further information can be obtained from Elaine.

Religious Education resource catalogue

Religion in Evidence 2007 Catalogue –
www.tts-shopping.com

Farmington fellowship for Teachers

The aim of the Farmington Institute is to support, encourage and improve religious education in schools and colleges. It is financed by the Farmington Trust.

Teachers with a school-based Fellowship will work mostly at school or at home. The Fellowship can be for a continuous period for as much as half a term or for as little as two weeks. Alternatively, the Fellowship may be taken in the form of day release, for instance for one day a week for a term or even a year.

Fellows are free to study any aspect of Religious education they wish but preference will be given to applicants whose work can be seen to be of direct value to the teaching of RE in schools.

The Fellowship will cover the cost of tuition, board and lodgings where appropriate, essential travel and, by negotiation with the school, the salary of a replacement teacher up to a certain amount.

All fellows are expected to produce an outline study plan of their project. Towards the end of the Fellowship, the Fellow will give a presentation of his/her work. All Fellows are expected to produce a written report on the work they have undertaken.

Further information is available from Farmington Website. Hermitage Primary have been involved in the use of this Fellowship.

Useful Religious and Moral Education websites

http://philosophy.edublogs.org Oban High School blog site with lots of good links to Philosophy web sites

http://www.abernet.org.uk Excellent education website with loads of free downloads for all curricular areas including Assessment is for Learning.

www.bbc.co.uk/religion Has a great deal of information, resources and quizzes.

www.reonline.org.uk This is an excellent subject specific website suitable for all years.

www.peopleoffaith.org.uk You can email different faith representatives.

http://re-xs.ucsm.ac.uk This is an excellent subject specific website suitable for all years.

gcsebitesize A very good revision site for Standard Grade with good links.

www.revision-notes.co.uk/gcse/ An excellent website for Standard Grade revision.

www.tutor2u.net This excellent website now has a Religious Education section. There are general notes for teachers and pupils as well as some excellent resources on Philosophy. Highly recommended for teachers and senior pupils.

Useful Easter Website

BBC Website/Festivals

The BBC Religion website includes pages outlining the significance of, and practices associated with, the various festivals. Click on the relevant religion and then on "Festivals".

BBC Schools pages have a useful section on Easter.

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