Welcome to episode 2 of What Even Is RME? This week my guest is Fiona Moss, Education and Programmes Manager at Culham St Gabriel’s. Fiona’s background is a Primary teacher and has worked for RE Today and NATRE. She has such a positive attitude and is so supportive of helping teachers deliver excellent Religious Education. You can email any questions direct to Fiona Fiona@cstg.org.uk
Fiona and I discuss what a Religion and Worldviews Approach is and how you might adopt it in your RME lessons. We discuss what this might look like in both primary schools and secondary schools. Fiona has previously delivered sessions on this for STARME – which you can find here. We discussed non religious worldviews and where to find information, such as that of the Humanists as well as Ethical Vegans and sentientism, RE: Online have a whole host of guides to religious and worldviews on their website. https://www.reonline.org.uk/knowledge/humanist-worldview-traditions/. I urge you to sign up to their newsletter if you haven’t already https://mailchi.mp/cstg.org.uk/new-resources-new-thinking-new-opportunities-14064481.
We talk about the work of Culham St Gabriel’s and the funding that they can offer for teachers who want to undertake research. You can read more about this here. https://www.cstg.org.uk/scholarships/
As well as the Farmington Scholarship, which I am currently undertaking and which is allowing me the time to complete this podcast. I have written more about this on the STARME website. https://starme.co.uk/2025/11/11/no-time-for-rme-development-the-farmington-scholarship-gives-you-the-gift-of-time/
It’s an interesting chat about the RME curriculum as a whole and what the strengths of RME in Scotland is like and how it differs from other UK Religious Education. We talk about how RME can be improved and Fiona shares a transition project she used to do that would be a great way of improving RME transitions.
I hope you enjoy the episode, please join in the conversation on social media @learningrmps or drop me an email learningrmps@gmail.com