STARME - Scottish Teachers Assoc. of RME

We have now sold a third of our ticket allocation for the Festival of Learning. If you are planning to join us in 2026, we recommend booking soon to ensure your spot is secured. Details and registration: buff.ly/G0mWsGC

🎬 ☪️ Casting Call: Muslim Voices Needed! ☪️ 🎬 Are you a Muslim ready to share your story? Who: Muslims of all backgrounds When: June (1-day shoot) Where: London studio To apply, email casting@ctvc.co.uk. 📢 Tag a friend or share this post to spread the word!

HELP! We want to get more Primary Teacher Voices into the Association. We know there is a massive gap in the market and we also know there are some fabulous examples of Primary RME across the country. So please tag, share and spread the message that STARME is for everyone!

One of the most powerful themes echoing across our recent Festival of Learning was a collective desire to change how we use stories in the classroom storytelling is our ultimate tool for making abstract concepts feel real, living, and immediate to young people.

When a delegate leaves our Festival of Learning feeling like this, we know we're on the right track. What was your key takeaway from the Festival of Learning?

Have you signed up to tomorrow's In Conversation event yet? Online, free and hosted as part of our #WaysofKnowingFocusWeek in collab with @NATREupdate, this is one NOT to miss! reonline.org.uk/ways-of-knowin…

If you have not already looked at the Ways of knowing Primary toolkit which comes as part of the @NATREupdate mailing now is the time. Khadija Mahir, who is part of the @culhamstgabriel leadership scholarship programme, has reviewed this book.

127 of us gathered in Glasgow for the Festival of Learning! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Seeing our community grow proves that STARME is a vital space for specialist dialogue, resource sharing, and professional connection. Thank you to everyone who made it our biggest year yet! #RMPS #RME

Frances Hume: The values of Interfaith Scotland are really closely related to the values we seek to embody in schools, how can we best seek to reflect some of these? #starme2026

Sue Thomson leading a workshop on Good Question! - Developing Critical Thinking Practical session using items to help tell a story #starme2026

“Whose voices are shaping our curriculum?” Margery McMahon asks this alongside questions around research led teaching. #starme2026

Stephen Scholes @SScholes4 and Jennifer Harding-Richards relating curriculum development for RMPS in Scotland and RVE in Wales - what are the connections, the differences, the international and intellectual contexts?

Luca La Monica explains how he enthuses pupils to explore philosophers and their key ideas. #starme2026

How do we solve a problem like RME? @learningrmps Steph Whyte explains her Farmington research. Yes, money, staff and time might solve it but actually there’s some more realistic and achievable answers to this that she is sharing

New for this year; Teacher Talk. A great opportunity for teachers to share best practice, ideas and make connections #starme2026

Colin Whittet explaining the way in which mentoring pupils is about reflecting our values, and how RMPS can help with this. #starme2026

Amanda Terris is sharing how she has built in choose your own adventure lessons to help with engagement, pace and challenge #starme2026

Orlaith Payne helping teachers support RMPS student teachers by balancing support and challenge. #starme2026

Morag Carrie offering lots of resources to help promote reading topics on important figures related to people who have lived their “values in action” #starme2026

Ross McMaster: Remember to hold you line manager accountable. If you are struggling with something ask them how they are planning on supporting you

Ross McMaster shares how he uses his Stride method he shared at last year's festival to reflect on his faculties next steps to achieve two very goods on their recent HMIE inspections #starme2026