As Announced at the Festival of Learning our Teach Meet Programme currently has 40 members signed up across the country. Introduced in 2024 to respond to member requests for more frequent high-quality CLPL around the teaching of RME/RERC/RMPS. Current Regional Teach Meets include: Teach Meets are centred on member requests Read more
Our wonderful friends at Re:Online by Culham St Gabriel’s have asked us to share about their Primary Focus week. There will be blogs, resources, research and a live ‘in conversation’ on Wednesday May 21st 4.30-5.30 for which they can also sign up on the link below (this event will also be Read more
As we aspire to the safe and thriving futures we want for faith communities in Scotland, we must prioritise the education of today’s young people.
Festival events for Scottish Interfaith Week 2025 will explore the key priorities of Scotland’s youth: Education, climate, mental health, poverty and discrimination.
Our hope is to encourage young people to engage in the festival, learn about other cultures and meet people from diverse religious and belief backgrounds.
When we make space for dialogue and understanding, our whole society flourishes.
Find out about our competition for schools and ways to engage young people in the festival.
STARME invites educators and practitioners in Religious Education to present at the Festival of Learning on 2 May 2025, at the University of Edinburgh. Interested individuals should submit a form by 14 March 2025, proposing their session and its significance. Presenters enjoy free admission and must attend in person.
Please find attached minutes from our recent AGM along with associated slides. We are delighted to announce that the Festival of Learning will be back in 2025! Save the date for Friday 2nd May 2025, New College, University of Edinburgh. At the meeting we discussed the Scottish Government Consultation on ‘Proposals to amend the legislation on Read more
We hope you’re all enjoying a well-deserved break after a busy start to the school year! We’re excited to kick off the new term with some valuable opportunities for RME educators across Scotland. Regional Teach Meets We’re pleased to announce a new program of Regional Teach Meets designed to foster Read more
Scottish Interfaith Week 2024 Scottish Interfaith Week is an annual community-led festival celebrating the nation’s religious and cultural diversity. Each year we have around 70 events hosted across Scotland by faith communities, interfaith groups, organisations, local councils, schools and more. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the festival which Read more
Calling all Higher and Advanced Higher RMPS and A-Level Religious Studies pupils! Are you interested in belief systems, rituals, mythology, iconography, practices and ethics and the integral part they play in human culture? Then tell us about it in our School of Divinity Video Competition. ‘How can studying religion help Read more
An exciting day exploring Buddhism at the University of Edinburgh. It’s all free, and based in George Square at University of Edinburgh. For further information and to secure your place contact paul.fuller@ed.ac.uk
Welcome to our latest edition of our Newsletter! Note from Chair As we reach the end of term, no doubt everyone is also feeling like we have had the busiest year this year and for STARME it is no different. In our first year we have been setting out the Read more