Sarah Blair’s excellent presentation on “Increasing Engagement in the BGE,” outlined strategies she uses at Lasswade High School to make RMPS engaging for pupils. Her core aim is to foster keen learners and increase potential uptake in the senior phase by addressing questions about the subject’s relevancy. This is achieved Read more
Join us for a special online speed meet session led by the fantastic Sarah Blair, a presenter at the 2024 and 2025 Starme Festival of Learning! Sarah will be leading a half-hour session on Monday, October 6th at 4pm to help us make RME more relevant and engaging in the Read more
A useful session for: providing pupil feedback; supporting the PRD process; and aspiring middle leaders. Benefits include: improving teacher-pupil relationships; encouraging self-reflection and independence; celebrating successes; and reducing workload. This model can be applied not only to the BGE & Senior Phase in RME & RMPS, but in many facets within school and life, such as behaviour management; mental health; and parenting!
Two years before the release of ‘Adolescence’, and around the time we started hearing about someone called Andrew Tait, our department planned a series of BGE lessons with the aim of helping our pupils to become better thinkers. We wanted our pupils to see that, in an increasingly polarised world, settling for easy answers is often a mistake. Two years later, this unit is receiving top feedback from S4 pupils and even increasing our SQA course uptake. This session will look at the process of planning the unit, its content, and will share details of how to access the lessons and documentary clips used.
Our existing S1 course focused on “feeding facts” and testing memory, so I designed two new units: a first which broke critical thinking down into 5 BGE-friendly basic questions (with tie-ins to the signposting language of senior-phase analysis) and a second which applied and assessed these skills with respect to 7 world faiths. An innovative method for classifying religions was developed.
Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson is a former teacher of Classics in Scotland and is now running a project which seeks to improve oracy and citizenship education in schools https://speakingcitizens.org/. Having secured funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to create a resource for BGE which focuses on argumentation, persuasion and speechmaking. Professor Holmes- Henderson is Read more