Religious Education

Head of Department: Mr M. Dickie

Teachers: Dr N. Cully, Mrs L. McClure, Miss S. Pinkerton

The aims of the RE Department are to help pupils to:

  • develop knowledge of religion as an important part of human experience;
  • appreciate moral values like honesty, liberty, fairness and concern for others;
  • think about the answers that religion offers to questions about the nature and meaning of life like: what is the purpose of life? how should I behave? what happens to us when we die?
  • develop their own beliefs, attitudes, moral values and practices through a process of personal search, discovery and critical evaluation;
  • develop respect for the rights of others to their own beliefs, attitudes, moral values and practices.

The content covered in Religious Education includes:

  • the pupils’ own experience;
  • Christianity, as the main religious tradition in the local and national community
  • other ‘world religions’ (when the new core syllabus is introduced)

Religious Education Staffing

There is one full time member of staff assisted by a team of highly committed non-specialists from other departments.

Dr N. Cully
RE Year 8
Mrs L. McClure
RE Years 9 & 10
Miss S. Pinkerton
RE Years 8-10