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## R.M.E.

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## Welcome to the RME Department.![](https://www.rutherglenhighschool.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jan-20-2025-11-49-10-1555-AM.png?width=165&height=134&name=image-png-Jan-20-2025-11-49-10-1555-AM.png) 

The RME department at RHS aims to:

- Enable all learners to explore the world’s major religions***, ***non-religious views and beliefs, and to consider the challenges posed by these beliefs and values
- Enable all learners to develop their own values and beliefs
- Encourage all learners to learn for sustainability
- Allow all learners to appreciate moral values such as honesty, fairness, respect and concern for others within the school community and beyond
- Help learners develop questioning skills
- Encourage learners to express personal opinions through visual and verbal and signing (Makaton), Boardmaker and Easy Switch programme.

### **Curriculum Information**

 

**Curriculum for Excellence – The Broad General Education - Courses on offer:  
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| **TERM/ YEAR GROUP** | **S1**   | **S2** | **S3** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **TERM 1** | **RME Passport: Facts and Festivals** **Hinduism** **Christianity**   | **World Religion: Buddhism** | **World Religion: Judaism and the Holocaust**   |
| **TERM 2** | **RME Passport: facts and festivals** **Judaism and Buddhism**   | **Religious Environmental Message  ** | **Animal Rights and the Bee Project** |
| **TERM 3** | **RME Passport: facts and festivals** **Islam and Sikhism** | **Introduction to Morality: issues on prejudice and discrimination** | **The Rights of the Child**   |
| **TERM 4** | **Introduction to Inspiring People: Faith in Action project** | **Introduction to Confucius** **Civil Rights, Social Reform and Religion – Inspiring People**   | **Introduction to Life After Death – world religions**   |

 

 

### **Self-Evaluation:**

Pupils evaluate their work at the end of every unit by completing a Self-Assessment Sheet.

Pupils also give their feedback by completing a RME Pupil Evaluation form. 

**Senior Phase S4-S6**

Pupils have the opportunity to study the following: 

- **National 1/2/3/4: ** World Religions (pupils’ choice)
- **National 2/3/4:** Morality & Belief (Moral Issue: Capital Punishment, Euthanasia, Abortion, Medical Ethics (Genetic Engineering: cloning, designer babies, stem cell research) - (pupils’ choice)
- **National 3/4:** Religious and Philosophical Questions: Existence of God - ’’Suffering and Evil’’; Life After Death
- Religion, Belief and Values Award (levels 3 to 6)

*These core courses are designed to develop important critical thinking skills as well as the learners’ own responses to moral questions.*

 

**Assessment Arrangements**

**SQA Assessments for all National Qualifications in the Senior Phase:**

- Informal assessment (worksheets, verbal answers, posters,3D models, story boards
- End of unit assessment
- Observations
- Attestations

 

**Interdisciplinary Learning for S1 to S3:**

RME & Social Subjects: IDL India and Hindu Wedding, Culture and Food

**Skills Class:**  
Introduction to Macramé for beginners

 

 

 

 

 

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